My biggest disapointment in moving to Texas was finding out there was no Trader Joe's here. So having lived here 2 months and one day, I finally found the Whole Foods. I know that seems like a stupid thing. But I never did bother to look it up on the internet, I just went with a friend telling me "Westheimer and Kirby." Well many times I drove down Westheimer looking for it around Kriby, and yet I never was able to find it. I guess if it had been "Kirby near Westheimer" I might actually have driven down Kirby. So, perhaps there is some hope. Granted all of these stores (like BlockBuster) are no where remotly convient to downtown on my way home from work. Such is life...

So there hasn't been a lot posted here lately. I attribute that to two things. 1. I was about to buy a digital camera because I like the concept of posting a picture with each of my blogs and that was keeping me from writing some entries. Well I finally accomplished that during one of my recent trips. This leads into the second reason, I've been traveling. Almost non-stop. For about 3 weeks I lived out of my suitcase from one city to another, only every being in my apartment in Houston for a night, enough time to do laundry and repack my bag.

It started with a trip to Bakersfield. I got to visit a well site and it was impressive to see how much work and planning goes into pulling that oil out of the ground.

From there I was able to spend some time back in the bay area before headi ...

So as I looked over my website this last weekend, I noticed two things. One Marwah's birthday just passed again and I have yet to find out what happened to her. The second thing was the realization that it had now been a year since my last blog entry. A lot has happened over the last 12 months and I really didn't capture too much of it.

So I hereby am reinstating the use of this blog. Since moving to TX I've had a few interesting stories to tell and I'll be posting them up soon. The first priority was an update to this website to make this blog more useable. One of the benefits of having laid dormate was that the DotNetNuke open source projects had progressed and this framework is much closer to that which I was looking for.

This is the place to check to see what it is that I've been up to... Stay tuned.

Well last year, my emails all bounced back, my phone calls went to disconnected numbers. I'm not sure where you have gone to, but with no other way to contact you I'd figure I'd post the message here. Perhaps the internet will find its way to you...

I hope everything is going well, perhaps your trying to work a little less (doubtful). Wherever you might be I hope you have a wonderful and happy birthday!

In remembance of my bike...

The sad day has finally come. Tonight I had to say good bye to a dear friend. My beloved and trustworthy friend and traveling companion. She was my second bike and for 4 years we travel near and far. Though ever climate from the desert to the snow, from scenica pacific ocean to the highest peaks of the Sierras.

Riding changed my life, in a time where I was "lost" I was able to find myself. All I needed was my bike and the open road. Many a miles were logged on solo journies to distance roads. But also a great many friends were made and many more miles were traveled in the company of friends. Those adventures were journies of epic porportion that will be remembered always. Good times.

The time has come to put my helmet away, to focus on matters financial to make right the descisions of my past. For this reason I sold my dear friend. It might very well be a couple years before I find another companion. But never will the memories of my F4i be replaced. ...

ClickOnce: Beyond The Basics

I went to this session to finally find out more information about ClickOnce, I had kept hearing about it at previous TechEds but never used it. A few weeks back I wanted to use it for a project but oddly enough didn’t find out very much information on it. I thought it was supposed to be integrated with Visual Studio. As it turns out it’s the “Publish” method in Visual Studio.

ClickOnce allows .NET applications to be deployed via a web browser. Application will be installed into the user’s local app directory (Document Settings\Local Settings) and once installed into a folder that is created, can’t access any files outside of its sandboxed directory.

Security access is controlled but the .NET Code Access Security. This is the security model that defines certain permissions based on the browsers internet zone. However, most useful application need to be given Full Trust to access resour ...

The penultimate day...

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