A while ago I posted an issue where IE was opening every page entered in the address bar in Firefox. This happened just after i installed uninstalled IE7. eeesh. Reinstalling SP1, removing and reapplying hotfixes didnt seem to solve the issue. ...

No this isnt about the cool plugin for Firefox to open IE as a tab. Its about my IE's new behavior of opening everything in Firefox no matter what I do. To be more specific. If I type anything in IE's adress bar it opens up firefox. It all starte...

I regulary admin a mix of Win2k and Win2003 servers using Terminal Services through XP remote desktop. Unfortunately both only allow 2 sessions and have a tendancy to get used up when a user forgets to logout. Heres a few tricks to get you back in....

I had to take down the the Audio Scrobbler pod after discovering the site was on error all nite. Since I rarely miss a day of playing music I didnt take into account what would happen when the xml feed is empty. Woops. Code has been updated. Pod is back. I've also noticed audioscrobbler can be pretty damn slow sometimes. If you dont want your site affected by the response of their site, you might want to just schedule it to run every 5 minutes.

I added caching to the Audio Scrobbler RSS parser thingy. I posted it for download on the right. It's now officially called CF_AudioScrobbler. Let me know if you have any suggestions or improvements.

The other day I mentioned our hiring dilemma and gave an example of a simple solution to a simple problem. It was easy, but I guarantee a few of you wouldn't have come up with it on the first try. When it comes to coding, sometimes our brains try to take the path of most resistance. At least mine does. A perfect example is a problem I had today with parsing an XML document. I like to play Halo2. Nothing caps off a stressful day like senseless violence.

Miles Rast over at the Rasteroids turned me on to Audio Scrobbler last night. Apparently everyone and their grandmother has known about this site for a while. Drats! I hate not being the first on the scene. The playlist tracking is cool but the part that interested me the most was what other people that shared the same taste in music listen to. They pretty much define your musical tastes within 20 individual tracks or so.

Found a neat app tonite called Synergy. Lets you stick your mac and pc side by side like a dual monitor setup. Move your mouse to the edge of the pc screen and presto chango! Your using the mac. For me the feature that puts it over the top is the...

The company I work for is currently hiring an inhouse developer. We've been under a heavy load for quite a while now and there appears to be no end in site. In most areas of the country you'd have pleny of talent out there to choose from. Unfortunately we're located in a tourist town and most of the population is transient seasonal workers looking to earn some tips and get drunked up. My initial hope was to find an intermediate CF'er with a working knowledge of photoshop. No takers.

Thanks to this blog I didnt do a damn thing this weekend. I promised myself going into it I would work on some outstanding client projects and spend whatever time left with my family, house work and the xbox. Maybe not in that order. I cant real...