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9/11

Posted on September 11, 2007 in life,New York City,NYC by KG2V
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Today, on another blog, they were asking about what you remember most about 9/11 To me, it’s a long answer. I work in IT supporting the News Division of one of the “big 3” networks. I was at my desk, and is usual for ME, the TV in my office was off. A co-worker called […]

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Best Blonde Joke EVER

Posted on August 24, 2007 in Humor by KG2V

This has to be The Best Blonde Joke Ever.

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Equipped to Survive: A trip to the ER

Posted on August 24, 2007 by KG2V
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With all apologies to the folks over at Equipped, here are some thoughts on “surviving” a trip to your hospitals Emergency Room. Not necessarily YOUR trip, but a trip of a loved one. As many of you know, my Mom just died after a long illness (lung cancer), and my Dad is not in the […]

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mbUnitForms

Posted on August 10, 2007 in Programming by KG2V
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Today, mbUnitForms was announced. It’s a port of nUnitForms. Might be a reason to switch to mbUnit

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SQL Server Monitor Gadget

Posted on August 9, 2007 in Programming by KG2V
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Conchango today has released a SQL Server Sidebar widget. That should be fairly cool Now if they would only let us use Vista at work

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New Software – Get them while they’re hot

Posted on August 8, 2007 in Programming by KG2V
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Oooh – some new software for the development world:NUint 2.4.2 – the defacto standard in .NET unit testing softwareCode-Rush and Refactor! Pro

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Barriers to Agile Development

Posted on August 8, 2007 in Programming by KG2V
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I just ran across an interesting blog post RE the Barriers to Agile development at barrier to agile development Personally, I can see how Agile and TDD work. MY personal biggest barrier is that MOST of my development time these days is spent porting REAL legacy code – VB 6.0 stuff (some of which were […]

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How to increase your blogging output

Posted on August 8, 2007 in Blogs by KG2V

I saw this interesting post by Andrew Garrett on how to increase your blogging output http://redemption.co.nz/2007/08/08/11-ways-to-increase-your-blogging-output/

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Mom – RIP

Posted on August 8, 2007 in life by KG2V
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Well, what we knew was going to happen happened. Last week, my Mom passed away after a long battle with lung cancer. That’s about all I want to say on the blog.

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My Health

Posted on July 11, 2007 in health by KG2V
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As some of you may know, I have a very slowly healing wound on my right leg. Basically it’s exactly what a diabetic gets, but without me being a diabetic (yes, I’ve been tested a bunch of times over the last month). In my case, it was cause by residual scaring left over from a […]

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