Things I Learned Today

At work: The mail server we use as part of our server environment is, in fact, scriptable, but only exposes a COM interface. I now get to figure out how to hook in to it from C#, and pray that I can write managed code to talk to it in a sane way. Energy Option Swaps are...

Website Update

I've been designing websites for myself, and for various things I've been involved in, since high school, and the one common thread they've all held is that I've never finished the content for them. Oh sure, I'll get the visual design pretty well squared away (to varying degrees of success), and I'll put up a...

Out With The Old, In With The New: Employment Edition

One of my favorite sayings is "the only thing constant in life is change." In keeping with that I'm running a series of posts dedicated to the change we see happening around us. I'm going to try to highlight both the big things and the little things. Fortunately, I tend to have a lot of...

Setting Standards: Achieving a Chrome-like Polish

This is my entry in to a long and continuing series of rants about standards compliance and best practices. The impetus for this entry comes courtesy of Ed Daciuk at Outside the Herd in a discussion on Google’s foray in to the browser war, Chrome: "It's not a complete alternative to IE. Just like Firefox,...