This was a dream bike build for me and lots of readers share the dream, so here goes: Build or buy? Building means you specify all the components. Even $5K bikes often come with pretty lame wheels, crank sets, cassette etc and you will not get to choose tires, seat, shifters, calipers, bars etc. It was a [...]
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TurboTax has been wonderful over the years but the 2008 price totally made me baulk. An eye popping $229.80 this year for my needs: $49.95 Premier inc Rental Properties + $34.95 Per State $109.95 Business including S Corporations H&R Block Home & Business 2008 promises the same functionality for $67.96 (Google for a discount coupon code). [...]
Bit of fun here: last week I headed to North Carolina and Deal’s Gap, aka Tail of the Dragon as I was sick of hearing friends talk about how great it was. 318 curves in 11 miles is their tagline, if you love cars or motorcycles you must check it out. People regularly travel from [...]
This is the new feed: http://dotnetworkaholic.com/feed/ The transition was fairly painless. The DasBlog posts imported to WordPress directly from the RSS feed, but all the comments were lost. This may be a future possibility so I zipped up a working copy of DasBlog. Moving my eight Blogger posts to WordPress was easy with the correct [...]
Paul Wilson tagged me – thanks Paul! Thanks for all the traffic you send my way too. Hopefully this list is not too boring: How many spots can you spot? Fast automobiles are my only vice, I shun status symbols and live frugally in a small suburban ranch Before hitting 40 I will run a [...]
Ramesh and I met at South Carolina’s first code camp, and it is great to his blog get off to a good start. English grammar would be my last choice of subjects on Jeopardy, but I particularly like his rant about the usage of Me and I. Remember English is his second language: http://braincells2pixels.net/subtext/
Apparently Microsoft tried to give Joel a free Vista laptop. He has written about why it would be wrong to accept. Technology journalists receive free products to review every day; as long as no implied stings are attached I believe Microsoft is in the clear. Of course should the blogger start snuggling up with anyone [...]
The new rss feed is: http://www.dotnetworkaholic.com/rss.xml I did my best to provide redirects for all the old feeds, but some aggregators do not recognize them.
You know the saying, concentrate on your core business and leverage commodity software wherever possible. Well 2007 is almost here, and it is probably time to stop maintaining my own blog software when there are so many easy to use services available. The first one I am trying is Google’s Blogger, about 10 minutes of [...]
You know the saying, concentrate on your core business and leverage commodity software wherever possible. Well 2007 is almost here, and it is probably time to stop maintaining my own blog software when there are so many easy to use services available. The first one I am trying is Google’s Blogger, about 10 minutes of [...]
