August 2005 - Posts
My employer, Applied Information Sciences , is sending me to the PDC in Los Angeles this year. During the week of September 12, look for postings on some of my favorite topics such as Avalon and presentation technologies.
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Here's a decent short article on why you need to prime your walls, so you don't end up with the awful mess the previous homeowners left me. DEAR TIM: I was thinking of wallpapering several rooms in my house and installing a few borders in others.
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ScottGu's Blog contains a great article on managing your web projects. Check it out. I've seen several questions come up in the last few days regarding techniques for structuring project layouts with web projects in VS 2005. In particular, I've received
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At the 16 week appointment this past Friday, I learned that besides other neat things like the online nursery for grandparents, AAMC uses the new 3d Ultrasound imaging for the 20 week ultrasound. I'm a big fan of 3d work and use Rhino 3d , 3d Studio Max
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It was well worth my effort to clean up the house in preparation for the appraisal. All in all, I used just over 6 gallons of Kilz to do the house. Add to that the one gallon of yellow paint Melissa used to finish the baby room. I patched and sanded the
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I can't recommend enough the combination of the Bostitch 15 gauge magnesium trim nailer and the Ridgid oil-free compressor . I used those to nail up all the door trim in preparation for the appraisal. This guy made very quick work of nailing trim
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One thing I had to do before the appraiser came was temporarily fix this one terrible looking wall downstairs. The wall used to have stained tongue-and-groove pine boards over drywall. Unfortunately, the panels were screwed in from behind the drywall
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Wednesday started week 16 of the pregnancy. Melissa's definitely showing a bit, but now that the house has been cleaned back up, the emotions are oddly back under control ;-) She's back to feeling a bit ill in the evenings though. How anyone could say
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Applied Information Sciences ( AIS ), a Microsoft Gold Partner is looking for good consultant-grade folks in the Washington DC area. These are for full-time employee positions at our company. .NET developers and architects (need to know both C# and VB
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ScottGu's blog has some great information on the VS 2005 Web Projects There has been a lot of online discussion lately about the new web project system that is being introduced with VS 2005. My goal with this post is to explain a little more about what
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Ok, I have to get it out in the open: wallpaper is evil. People who put wallpaper in their house are just plain selfish ;-) No, I'm not talking about desktop wallpaper ; I'm talking about the real stuff. Let's face it, if you put wallpaper
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Wednesday August 17 started week 15 of pregnancy. Melissa is feeling better (no more nausea), but is still very tired all day. I've also noticed a definite change in mood and emotions. Then again, that could just be because my remodeling efforts have
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Watch out what you do before you get financing!
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