There seem to be a movement that would like to sell you on the idea of social networks marketing( The Power of Web 2.0 in Your Hands ).  But before you shell out the cash and join the social network revolution.  I think you should read Particle Physics, Mortgage, and Unconventional Advice .   My opinion, if your passionate about your work and love talking about it, blog.  The rest will come naturally.

Firefox 3 makes a call to your anti virus software to scan your down loaded file.  This typically results in a double scan or an unnecessary scan when you trust the download source.

There is no intuitive way to disable this feature but thanks to gHacks I was able to find a configuration setting for this feature.

You can navigate to about:config in Firefox and double click the browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone to set its value to false.  No more time wasted scanning the file.

What I find disturbing is that Lloyds is storing the password in plain text in their database and employees have access to that account data.

read the story at bbc

Why aren't asp.net blogs engines as popular as moveable type, blogger, typepad or wordpress?  The asp.net applications seem to almost hide from public discussions.  Is it the windows platform?  Our open source communities faltering?  Or lack of free hosting?

The Mac Book hard drive tanked tonight.  I think Apple has quality control issues to address, there seems to be a lot of this type of thing going around the school district.  We took it to the Apple store for a "genius" to fix(yea no files could be recovered!).  To bad the district will want to put their kooky build of Tiger back on the re-imaged Mac Book.  While The Apple employees were very nice and not smug at all, it was still a culture shock to go into the store.  I am so do not fit in that sub culture.  I still find it ironic that the Apples in my house cause more grief then the pcs.

If you want to maintain a web presents but don’t have the time/ability/knowledge to write your own ideas/content.  Go home and forget about it.  When you run content that comes from a third party you look like a fool not a domain expert.  Especially when your competitors use the same service.  Yes you can change the site skin but ultimately you only embarrass your self and profession.

Second.  If you buy blog hosting service, you are getting ripped off every month for your ignorance.

It seems that when using a LinqDataSource with a GridView control you cannot handle Paging even when AutoPage is set to false.
I receive the following message

AutoPage is disabled on LinqDataSource “Control Name Here” but paging has not been handled

In the LinqDataSource selecting event I can set e.Arguments.RetrieveTotalRowCount = false and receive no errors.  But now no results are returned.