Gotta love it. Since migrating my domain over to Gmail for domains, I've caught over 90,000 spam messages ... much better than my old web-based email system.

As I type, Gmail is happily deleting my entire SPAM inbox ... wow!

Hurray!

And check out this exchange between James Blake and Pam Shriver ... Ouch! Go to: http://tennis.fanhouse.com/2010/06/22/bounced-james-blake-blasts-espns-pam-shriver-at-wimbledon/.

Check out the following site for an interesting site discussing steroids and tennis: http://tennishasasteroidproblem.blogspot.com/.

Another change for LCM ... just made the move to U-verse and so far, so good! Had to nuke the old business line, but people can still reach me at 314-496-1645.

While this isn't really breaking news ... wanted to let anyone in the St. Louis area know that I'm officially moving from self-employed to "employed". Thanks to all that have supported LCM Research for over 15 years ... basically, I just want to do the stuff I like (coding, troubleshooting), and have a bit more time left over for important stuff (family). Anyway, here is my "official" release:

I’m accepting a position with IT Architechs (www.itarchitechs.com), an IT consulting firm that services clients in MO and IL. I’ll be primarily doing some development work, and am excited to be able to concentrate on .NET development, as well as additional opportunities to learn Sharepoint Development. IT Architechs provides software and hardware services to multiple clients in the Metro St. Louis area.

Again, it has been fun ... on to new things!

(And yes, spammers, I'll probably be keeping this blog up, and periodically deleting your idiotic posts! <G>)

This is a lot of fun, easy to play (but not easy to play WELL on higher difficulty settings), as well as possible to play while walking on the treadmill or riding the exercise bike.

Especially like the antics of the pros ... occassionally they'll start limping after hitting a bad shot, etc.

See it at: http://www.amazon.com/SPORTS-Grand-Slam-Tennis-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B001U2BMH2.

Filing this away so I can revisit at a later date. See: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/10-top-iphone-apps-it-pros-045?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_mobilehdwr_2009-12-30 for a short list of usefull IT apps for the iPhone.

Just came across this error ... had my portal's password settings setup in web.config, but Dynamic Registration was still expecting the default 7 character password. A quick search on Google yielded the following solution (Dyn Registration has a field for this variable): http://www.datasprings.com/Products/ProductForums/tabid/727/view/topic/postid/1189/Default.aspx.

Instructions here! Very nice tutorial, implemented in about 15 minutes.

78 Aces ... and he still loses the match ... unbelievable display from Ivo Karovic and Radek Stepanek.

And it works for "regular" .net sites as well. See: http://www.metanous.be/boblog/post/Getting-BlogEngineNET-within-a-DotNetNuke-website.aspx for the complete text ... simple, add the code to the parent web.config, then configure the BE.net folder as an application in asp.net ... done!

Check out Commentor (http://rtur.net/blog/post/2009/02/16/Commentor-e28093-new-version.aspx), an extension to help BlogEngine.net deal with the flood of comment spam that usually appears after one enables commenting for a site.

I've been working with Telerik's RadTools set of components for over 2 months, and keep finding new things to like. Stuff that used to take me hours to code in Classic ASP I can now accomplish in under an hour.

For example, I can setup a SQL Datasource, drop in an instance of RadGrid, bind it to the datasource, and presto ... I have an editable grid. Add features like sorting and grouping, it really makes things easy!

Nice article on ZD regarding XP vs Vista vs Win7 performance. Once I get some downtime, I'll probably be re-formatting my main machine (perhaps bumping up the RAM) to Win7 from XP.

Anyway read the article at: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355703,00.asp.