Everyone who knows me will usually accuse me as being part of the ‘collective’.  They would have you believe that I think Microsoft can do no wrong.  Well, here’s my first official rant about how M...

If your going to be in Dallas and attending DevDays, be sure to let me know; maybe we can get together after the event for a few drinks considering the event ends at 5:00pm.  I’m not thrilled at th...

OK, so it was technically the power supply… but still, was downright impressive.  Flames literally shot out of the fan during turning the machine on.  To make matters worse, it happened while my fa...

It’s psuedo official… Saturday nights at 7pm (central time) is XBOX Live Night.  Last night was a lot of fun with the bloggers that showed up.  We had James Avery, Erik Porter, Philip Rieck, Drew R...

Paschal L points out the Microsoft Research’s TreeMap.Net.  It’s an interested way to view information.  I saw it a while back as a map showing the newsgroup traffic.  However, I didn’t even think ...

The Coding 4 Fun - Building a Drum Machine with DirectSound article that Duncan Mackenzie brought to my attention looked pretty interesting, however, it doesn’t have a VB.NET version.  Although the...

Why is it that you see the following notice in a lot of samples? // THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY // KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LI...

Probably the highest item on my pet peeve list for Windows XP is the fact that if you are not running as part of a domain, instead using workgroups, you are unable to modify the directory permissio...

Paul Vick noticed my question about what exactly does the enable optimizations option in VB.NET does.  In addition, he explains why turning this option on actually makes it difficult to debug the a...

I’ve seen a couple of posts concerning the evils that VB.NET has concerning the following: Try Catch ex As Exception End Try Kirk Allen Evans points out how VB.NET’s autocomplete is Propagating ...