Ted Roche’s weblog

Don Box details his lunch with Ken Levy here. Glad to hear Ken is doing some work on getting a good XML editor into the Visual Studio box.

Ever had a problem when compiling a VFP project of “Not a table” or “Cannot compile.” I have, and wrote a short program demonstrating how to figure out Which One of the files was the culprit. (Microsoft has apparently added this feature to VFP 8, I haven’t tried that yet.) Barbara Peisch took my example [...]

Caledonian Record article on my grant-aunt Virginia’s 110th birthday. Wow.

Lee Gomes in the Wall Street Journal’s Portal column posits that the web allows us to spot trends, “disintermediating” the trend setters and trend spotters. I’ve always felt that online forums (CompuServe, Wikis, bulletin boards) could give you more of a sense of the market, the “what’s the man on the street opinion” but accumulators [...]

Roxanne Seibert of RoxWorld put on a great show entitled “Presentation Layer Finesse: A crash course in good website design for software developers” for the East Tennessee FoxPro User Group last night. Pictures and links to resources coming later today.

tchotchke: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. tchotchke [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]

Greenspun: “Is it time to accept Bill Gates as my personal savior?” [Scripting News]

Quote of the Day, July 29, Alan Kay: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” From Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog

Tim’s interviewed on Stage4, as linked from many sites on my blogroll. Always worth reading Tim’s thoughts.

A wonderful commedian, who brightened many hours for millions, Bob Hope passed away at 100. RIP.