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Well, it was time for another blog redesign. I'd been wanting to do something with this for a while, because I had still been coasting on the Tailwind Next.js...

Well, 2025 is a wrap and we're in 2026. As I've tried to do over the last few years, I want to reflect on how the year went and on some of the things I've...

Recently, I was telling my kids about this one time during college when some friends invited me to go check out a cave with them. It has been a long time, but...

I've been going through some of my old code from college lately and I've been surprised by just how little I knew early on, even during my senior year. It made...

It's a holiday break, my four year old is taking a nap, so I'm writing up a post on 2023. I'm also letting AI proofread. Here goes! Blog If you're only looking...

At the beginning of this year, I had a good laugh at Exchange's expense because of a "harebrained Y2K22" bug. Never did I expect to actually have to debug a...

It's a new year... again. And I'm on a personal mission to blog more. I've been reminiscing about how the internet was a while back. In other words, pre-social...

Now that the year of the Mayans is upon us, I wanted to take some time to look back over 2011. And don't worry, I'll do my best to not mention the Mayans and...

So, my blog looks different now... and it isn't just a new theme. It's new blog engine, new web host, new look and feel, new everything! The back story... So,...

First off, apologies for not posting anything in 2 (wait, has it been 3?!?) months - that's the longest I've ever gone without posting anything. Second,...

It's 2010. Seriously. Can you believe it? Aren't we supposed to have flying cars, hoverboards, and have space ships that can reach Jupiter? I mean, really,...

So, a year ago to the day, I posted my review of 2007 with a look towards 2008. To continue that age old tradition, I will now review 2008. Learning I started...

I told you we had sushi while at DevLink! We're happy in this picture because we all had just had a great dinner :-) (that, and they told us to be goofy for...

Brian Sullivan tagged me with the latest ongoing meme. I'm really sort of excited because I've missed out on all the other memes going around. Jeff Atwood...

I was going through some code today and stumbled across the following: Hilarious.

A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend the Tech Ed 2008 Developer conference. It was my first Tech Ed conference and I had a great time. (Yes,...

(Sorry for the lack of substance with this blog post - I'm hoping that just posting anything will spur me on to post something with substance. Wish me luck.)

Just a reminder to anyone in the Fort Smith area - we'll be meeting next Monday night at 6:00 to hear Chris Koenig talk about Silverlight. Chris is a Microsoft...

Anyone else find this funny? I know I do! I told you I was a beta junkie.

If you haven't already read Joel's commentary on the current situation with browsers, specifically the Internet Explorer 8 beta, you should check it...

Last night kicked out the Fort Smith .NET User Group's first meeting. It went great! I would guess that we had at least 20 or 30 people show up. Raymond...

Last week, a small group of us traveled up to hear Jean-Paul Boodhoo present to the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group. JP presented on advanced uses of...

In much the same way that Colin welcomed me to the blogosphere a few years back, I now get to welcome Brian Sullivan. Check out his inaugural post and leave a...

It's hard to believe that it is already 2008... 2007 completely flew by. I spent most of this Christmas holiday telling my family I had seen them just a few...

It is Halloween after all. It would be a great day to start learning Boo. Sorry. I couldn't help myself.

\sigh\

I am a moron. Like so many of the millions of other Halo fans, I preordered my copy of Halo 3 literally months ago. I've been waiting impatiently for months...

When I was in high school, my first job was preparing food at a local Taco Mayo. I didn't last long there. Soon afterwards, I began working at a local ISP...

For your enjoyment, here is some great dialogue from the movie Airplane. Why am I providing this? Because it is funny and because I wanted to. Roger Murdock:...

I was digging around my old posts and bookmarks and stumbled across my post on the Share Your OPML website from over a year ago. Whatever happened with that...

In case you haven't heard, Apple has released a public beta of Safari, which is their web browser. The surprising news is that it supports Windows. I have to...

Here's the link: http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Film-At-1100.aspx Wow. We're famous. My cubicle neighbor pointed it out to me.

<img alt="I am nerdier than 74% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to find out!" src="http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/f8273a30a7e467bc.gif" /...

A few weeks ago, I posted on the Stack Style Tabs extension for Firefox. I used it for a little while and I realized that it wasn't exactly what I was looking...

This post has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Just some ramblings from my brain this morning. I got to work a few minutes ago and the first thing I do...

I've already shared with you about how cubicles really can be annoying when you sit next to the loudest two individuals in the world. Now, I'd like to point...

I just wanted to share a Firefox extension I found recently. Stack Style Tabs basically treats the Ctrl+Tab shortcut in Firefox like Alt+Tab in Windows or like...

I'm sure you've seen this page before: I've seen a million posts on it, too. Jeff Atwood posted about this problem when he was talking about user-friendly 404...

Read it here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/04/03/expression-added-to-msdn.aspx Woohoo! This is a great move by Microsoft and I really appreciate...

This is completely off-topic, but I thought it was pretty funny. I had this past Monday off from work and when I got into the office today, I noticed that I...

I'm sure I'm the only one that has ever messed up like this, but anyway... My TV is one of the 30" HDTV monitors. It was cheaper at the time and the box didn't...

Your programmer personality type is:<br/ DHSC<br / You're a Doer.<br / You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most...

You know about NTWind even if you don't think you do... NTWind is where you can get such awesome tools as WinSnap and TaskSwitchXP. The site has had a blog...

Jeff Atwood posted a great article talking about programmers that can't actually program. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Actually, lately is...

I guess Worse Than Failure.aspx) fits a little better than what I had resorted to calling it on my own: "Where's the Function?" It didn't communicate the same...

I probably should have just submitted this one to Overheard at the Office, but I'd rather post it here. "It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I want to be...

I recently moved my RSS reading habits over to Google Reader, primarily because I read feeds at work and home both and I'd rather not have to keep my feeds...

A recent post by Lee Holmes on breaking your writer's (blogger's?) block is prompting this post. I recently finished reading Steve McConnell's book, Code...

This Christmas, my wife got me one of those awesome Logitech Harmony remotes (the Harmony 880 for those who are curious, and at a great price, too). I spent...

The web has been busy with news about .NET 3.0 going RTM, along with Office 2007, Vista, etc. But some other news that hasn't received quite as much publicity...

Colin has raved about the joys of middle clicking for a while now, but I was never able to enjoy it because clicking my mouse's middle button never seemed to...

I'm having my first 9 minutes of fame... ever! Check it out here! (from Jon Galloway)

For those of you who don't subscribe to digg, check this out. From the website: "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent us a cake for the <del...

Okay, maybe it isn't hilarity, but it is somewhat ridiculous when Vista will let you get around a compatibility dialog warning you that a program isn't...

Earlier this week, I posted on some major problems I was having with trackback spam. By way of a comment, Tim Rayburn pointed me to his post on Akismet support...

I finally had to disable trackbacks on my blog. Even with some of the antispam features of dasBlog, I was still getting hit like crazy. Just today, I got about...

I was catching up on some older blog posts from different people recently and I came across some posts talking about how wonderful SlickRun is. Everyone is...

Great news! Google Reader has been updated and it is usable now! Find out more here! (Thank you Digg!!!)

I recently upgraded Firefox to the 2.0 beta version. It has some nice features built in and it seems a lot more stable than the previous beta version. One...

Check out the Syntax Highlighter plugin for Windows Live Writer. <pre <span style={{color: '#808080'}}///&lt;summary&gt;</span <span style={{color:...

Jeff Atwood just posted an excellent Programmer's Bill of Rights, which suggests things such as providing at least two monitors for every programmer, providing...

I'm sorry... I've been bad about posting lately. So bad in fact, that I've only posted once this month! But you know what? I've got a good excuse... I was in...

wikiality (wi-ki-al-i-ty) - the process of creating "reality" (see reality) by making something up on Wikipedia enough that more and more people agree with...

Earlier today, Mark Russinovich announced that Microsoft had acquired Winternals and Sysinternals. In other words, some of the best administration tools...

Last night, Cara and I were driving back from church during a thunderstorm. The entire time, I kept wishing that I had my digital camera with me, because the...

Just last month, I posted on how much I hated corporate content filters, specifically for blocking sites such as Scott Hanselman's site and del.icio.us,...

This will be a short post, but someone at work emailed me a link to a page that will let you see how fast you can type. Check it out here! Here are my results...

I hate corporate proxies and content filters! First, it starts blocking Scott Hanselman's site for "personal" reasons. Apparently, we can't be looking at the...

Has anyone ever heard that saying? One of my MBA professors said that it was the number one rule for managers. "You get what you reward." Basically, the idea...

I'll apologize ahead of time... one of the features that I am (or was?) looking most forward to in Office 2007 is the ability to save as PDF. Will I ever use...

Marcos, thanks for the heads up on the captcha image not working... I just tried the comment link myself and it failed. I copied the source for the image it...

Anyone checked out CodePlex yet? Looks like a Microsoft site for sharing open source applications, sort of like SourceForge, except a lot more user friendly!...

In just over 24 hours, I will be skipping my grad school graduation. For those who didn't know, I've been working on my MBA for the past two years. My employer...

Well, I jumped on the Share Your OPML bandwagon today... Scott is right, too - one of the most interesting aspects of the website is the Subscriptions Like...

I just found another nifty shortcut to finding items in Desktop Search. Let's assume you want to find an email with test in the subject in body. If you're like...

Thanks to Scott Hanselman for the heads up. I've been using Consolas for a few months now and it is easily one of the best programming fonts I've ever used......

I've really become a fan of MSN Desktop Search at work. I don't really use the toolbar at all, because I've got tabbed browsing in both Firefox and the IE7...

Check out this article on ABC News. Or this press release from Winternals. Apparently, a few members of Geek Squad have been using pirated versions of software...

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 was released today. At first glance, it seems to be a lot more stable than 1.5.0.1. I had all sorts of issues with the last version...

If Hollywood had its way with history, this might be what it would like. It is basically the history of the world if every movie actually happened. Nice. (via...

Some of you may be aware that I'm currently pursuing my MBA. (I would've preferred to get my master's degree in CS or something like that, but there weren't...

It looks like the build from MIX06 has been released. Check out the post from the IEBlog here!

According to Gadgetopia, a nine-year old in North Dakota made a bet with his older brother that he could print the entire Internet. You know, if the story...

The majority of the time I spend in front of computers is at work where a proxy has been set up. I don't have a problem with proxies, but it does really annoy...

Words can't describe this. You've got to see it for yourself. (Can you imagine programming at 10240x3072?) (via Digg)

Live.com received a makeover recently, and their search engine has been revamped. I've played around with Live.com before, but never really used it. The...

What would happen if Microsoft had branded the iPod instead of Apple? Something like this... According to Mary Jo Foley from Microsoft Watch, the video was...

Larry O'Brien talks about the myth of better programming languages and how "there is not a shared psychology of computer programming." Seriously, it really...

Jeff Atwood posted a very interesting article today detailing the effects of icons, text, and combinations of the two in toolbars. I particularly liked his...

I just installed the Performancing Add-in today and it is pretty snazzy. It seems to work fine with dasBlog, which is exactly what I need. It supports...

I'd like to talk a little bit about what I did to get my personal site up and running. First off, I wanted it to support blogging for my wife and I. I tried a...

When I registered mohundro.com, it was always my intention to have a technical blog (what you're reading) and a personal site where my wife and I could post...

Okay, I couldn't resist this. How often is it that you see CNN.com post something about Tiger Poo?!? Sorry, I'm easily entertained.

Check this out. "The A to Z of Programmer Predilictions" is a funny little article that categorizes programmers into various stereotypes, most of which are...

This may seem a little weird, but I was checking my webstats for the blog and I saw that one of the Googlebots came across it. That prompted curiosity on my...

I'm finally a part of the blogosphere. I'll plan on this being a place to post primarily .NET related news as well as tools or other technical related news....