It rained the night before last night (with Thunder!) and it rained last night and it is still raining. I think the forces of nature conspire against me. I have no choice but to crawl up back into bed with a good book and listen to the rain. If a nap should overtake me, so be it.

Writing proper custom exceptions can amount to a lot of busy work. Oh sure, it’s easy to simply inherit from System.Exception and stop there. But try running that baby through FxCop or passing that exception across AppDomains and you’re in for a world of hurt (hyperbole alert!).

It appears that one Islamic extremist has issued a Fatwa against playing soccer by the regular rules. Here are some choice examples.

My weekends just seem to get better and better every week. Since going independent and then starting a company with a friend, my work weeks have been much more enjoyable. Fortunately, my weekends have kept up as well.

It’s happened to all of us. You are happily coding along (in Visual Studio .NET 1.x), minding your own business when you decide to switch from the code view to the designer and back to the code view. That’s when you experience…The Woe.

UPDATE: If you are using Windows Server 2008, the switch is /admin not /console. See this post for details.

There’s an interesting discussion in the comments on the Coding Horror blog in which Jeff suggests that

You knew it was coming…

I want to teach a friend everything I know about HTML Production work (which won’t take long). By production work, I mean the process of receiving a Photoshop file, cutting it up, and producing nice clean semantic (X)HTML and CSS.

Every now and then on various blogs (including mine), you’ll notice a little snippet at the bottom of a post that looks something like…

I’ve noticed a bit of talk lately about poor management such as this piece from Dare and this one from Mini-Microsoft.

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Originally uploaded by soymlk. It’s pics like these that really capture the spirit of Burning Man. I love the juxtaposition of cultures in this particular photo. It displays the extent to which the Burning Man organizers work with the local communities and law enforcement to ensure a peaceful and cooperative environment. \

Many thanks to C|Not for listing the venerable You’ve Been Haacked in their Blog 1,000,000. The recognition is much appreciated.

Hey you! Yeah I’m talking to you. The one there who has been staring at the screen for several hours straight. Do NOT forget to blink often.

When it was released, I was quite critical of Community Server. I felt it was a rush job and shouldn’t have even been graced with a “beta” next to its name. That, along with other reasons, spurred me to start the Subtext project.

Man this would have saved me from tearing out a lot of hair in the past. An excerpt from the announcement:

Roland released Ghost Doc 1.3.0. I am looking forward to trying the new bits out. Check out his release notes.

Since when was The Shining a feel good movie? Since somebody creatively edited footage to make this promo.

My wife can be a real bookworm at times. She took Twiggy to the local Starbucks in the downtown area of Culver City to have a drink and read her Spanish book outside in the beautiful weather. As she studied, she could overhear two guys behind her loudly engaged in annoying guy talk about some hot coworker of theirs and how some other guy got to her first.