September 2006 Entries
We went to Six Flags yesterday (Saturday, 9/24). What a day! We woke up at 5:30 in the morning, stayed until park closing (7:00), and got home at 1:30. My sister and her husband each got free military passes so we didn't have to pay admission. There sure were a lot of coasters! Most of the rides were coasters. I expected more diversity. There were a few other things, though many of those required extra money. We were originally planning on going with another sister of mine and her family, and another brother of mine and his family, but they...
Tired of going to Control Panel to get to Add/Remove programs? Just a small thing, but this post on Tech-Recipes.com shows you how to add the "Add/Remove Programs" menu command to the context (right-click) menu of My Computer. Very nice! http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1628/place_add_remo...
In the past two or three weeks I've produced 5-8 hours of video, a total of ten separate files. Some are screencasts, others PowerPoint presentations, some a mix of both. All of them contain full voice-over. I've one voice work in the past as well, but was, by far, the most painful series of sessions. I thought that I'd share a few tips, in the hopes that it makes life easier for someone else! Tip #1: Get a good mic! I can't emphasize this one enough. I don't mean that you need to spend all of your money on a...
Every so often I appreciate something enough to blog about it! Everyone needs to be more vocal about the good, not just the bad. I'm so guilty of it. The bad stuff is just so much more fun to talk about! In my .NET work, I frequently have a need to format strings. Whenever I get into advanced formatting, I never remember the specific syntax. The simple {0} and padding numbers with {0:000} are easy enough, but there is so much that you can do for hex, decimals, money, dates, times, etc. that you are really missing out if you...