This is all about google, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3143990.stm

Ok, this is a strange log for the internet, one about radio web sites , a little strange to me.

NR radio web site  http://www.npr.com or http://www.npr.org
University of Oklahoma's Radio station  , http://www.kgou.org ( NPR and BBC and other stuff)

BBC World Services , http://www.bbcworldservice.com

electronic paper, way coo, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3136250.stm

Saw a cool feature for a web site today that I am surprised more web sites that require login do not do. http://www.sqlservercentral.com does favorites list for there site that is stored on there server so when ever you go to there site and login you can get a list of the pages on there site that you have added to your list.  Great idea.  This is also a good site for sql server info. 

MS changed the install on MSDE 2000 ( SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine)  and SQL Server 2000  Personal Edition   SP3 to turn off networlk connectivty , ie local access only , so you have to use a switch to turn on connection accross the network.  See MS KB Article 814130 INF: How to Secure Network Connectivity for SQL Server 2000 Local Databases , http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814130

search the US Code , http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm

Here is a page from page with info on block your computer from access sites,  http://www.safersite.com/Support/HowTo/How_To_Block_Ads.asp

There are ad blocks out that but the caught to most of them are they update/make entries inthe lmhost file that will blck sites but can slow down your pc and most of them use 127.0.0.0 which routes to your pc so if you have a web server runing it gets the request, they could leave the ip blank and then it goes to nothing (0.0.0.0 is said to work )
here is a application that intergates into IE ( free and pro versions) that blocks ads , http://www.allstarss.com/store/adshield.html 
then there is this one, http://www.zeroads.com

I will tell you if you can get some wireless rf speakers they are cool, pull them in and more the speakers anywhere ( upto 100 feet away) and you still get the sound.  Cool stuff.  Got some from Buy.Com .  Wierd thing there, i order them and they are in CA and the UPS tracking info shows that UPS picked them up in Oklahoma City,OK from Buy.com and delivered them next day to me in Edmond,OK .  I do not think Buy.Com has a warehouse in Oklahoma so how the heck did they do that.  

Here is a little util written in c# that will flash the scroll lock key in morse code , you give it a text file and it reads it to you if you understand morse code and are fast :), http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=03bbef0b-3930-49b0-9e66-b3cb1ba20872

Man, went to Earls Ribs for lunch and saw 2 people I had not seen in 2 years, Bobby Partin and Johnny Corona.

here is a link ot the MSDN asp.net roadmap article online, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;305140
Here is an articel on creating manual postback for asp.net http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328923

Her is a site about datagrids in asp.net, she writes articles for MSDN , http://www.datagridgirl.com/ 

why cool from radio show from Carl Franklin, http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp ,  check ou the january 27 , 2003 show with Alan Cooper

Here are some cool pc secuirty devices to protect/log on to your pc.

Securelock , this one uses a key that you plug-in and a pin to access your pc and you can do encryption of data.

U.are.U. Personal (there is a Pro version) , does it with fingerprint and does logon and encryption

Authenticam  from Panasonic , bulit on technology from Iridian Technologies  , does a iris scan to allow access to pc.

OK, back to the asp.net datagrid and a link, the link to the code from yestrday did not work, the link to the article in the last posting does work but it does not let you set the window attributes.  I have found this which works a little for creating the code, http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2003/June/DataGridClientSideEvents.asp , but i still do not have it working as a link in the grid :-(   

Ok, got it to work, found this on asp.net ,  URL = "<a href=""javascript:window.open('" & URLp & "','','menubar=no, width=400,height=275, scrollbars=no' ); void('');"">"

the key is the void('') only bad thing is that this shows aas the link in the status bar but that is better than not working.

Here are some RSS newfeeds sites, www.blogdigger.com , www.daypop.com , www.feedster.com , find.fyuze.com , www.newsisfree.com , www.syndic8.com

Well, here is my daily whine about the terrible quaility or .NET , the code bnehind looks good but I think it would be much easier and better for developing to use the much better model of inline code ( of course it proably does not get compiled ut at least it would work :-) ).  Todays problem is that it wants to post back everything and in order to do anything correctly you must now not only learn the crapy new ado.net model ( and it does suck and if any one including the guys at MS tell you it is better , or even good, they are lying all yo have to say is “tell me why a 'readonly-forward scrolling' resultset would lock the connection?” )  and deal with the lack of full support to the OS , you have to become a java programmer which I thought was what they are trying to compete against. Here is a forum post about opening a window from a datagrid with parms, http://asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=338421

I finally found someone to confirm that ASP.NET will not click the submit button on the enter key  , http://www.allasp.net/enterkey.aspx

Here is a way cool control for .net , http://www.imageadmin.net , and another cool control from the same people, http://www.dbcombo.net/

Good free .Net controls , http://www.metabuilders.com , guy has a button that will do default for web controls in asp.net like they should/do in html/asp

I was looking on asp.net to see about a problem with db creation in DNN where the cascading deletes are not get setup and found out how to add to the search modules list, you need to add a foreign key constraint to the modules table and then it will show in the drop down.  To add FAQ to the list you can run this or use EM to add it 
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[FAQs] ADD
CONSTRAINT [FK_FAQs_Modules] FOREIGN KEY
(
[ModuleID]
) REFERENCES [dbo].[Modules] (
[ModuleID]
) ON DELETE CASCADE NOT FOR REPLICATION
GO

Here are some DNN portals that have custom looks
http://www.petmarketinggroup.com
http://www.4birckhead.com
http://www.nexxus.com.au
http://www.portalwebhosting.com/
http://www.smcculloch.net/
http://www.humanpixel.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=31

Just when you think you have learned it and see it all you find out you something that you thought you would have found out long ago. Today I found out something really good, had a string that was part of an insert statement and the character count was 1972 but it had 26 CR/LF in it which actually means that it is 2024 characters long, 1972+(2*26)=2024 , you have to remember that each cf/lf take up 2 characters when stored in text and in SQL server. The data I am inserting comes from Oracle and so I will take it that Oracle converts CR/LF to CR or a LF when saving since my data structure/column size are the same as the Oracle Databases. I had to convert the CR/LF to CR and then it is 1998 characters and will fit in the 2000 character column.  Makes told since , and acts as it should, when you read data  from a text file and import you have to take extra caution to make sure you have get the data back to the format it was originally and not adding characters during the transfer process as the text file in this case was doing.

 Tab Order In ASP.NET / HTML
It is easy to do tab order once you find all the facts.
1. the first thing that gets focus when tab is pressed is the address bar ( unless you change it on page load with JavaScript), this is because the document gets the focus each time page is loaded
2. if there are other toolbars, like google, then they will get focus
3. then the first control in the html that has the lowest tabindex 0-32767 that is positive gets the focus, if there are multiple ones, which is valid, then the first one in the html code gets the focus, with absolute positioning on this could the last control you added. If you set a tabindex to a negative number then it is not included in the tab order.

Here is a cool site that you can try and hack, http://zero.webappsecurity.com , from SPI Dynamics.

This company, Seagull Software  ,has some cool looking software products, and a ftp that does secure ftp that is only 20 bucks, not sure how good but the price is good :)

Cool cd label software that imports playlist and it is only 20 bucks, http://www.acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/index.htm
Check out there other stuff looks pretty good http://www.acoustica.com/, they have mp3 cd durner, mp3 audio mixer and mp3 to wave convertor and only are either 20 or 25 bucks. CNET and MS Windows Users Group Network both have made the label maker a best pick.

This is a way cool product, http://www.itwatchdogs.com , it is called the weather duck and you know that if I am putting it in here it proably is a computer thing :-)

There is no doubt after today that any one without dual-monitors has not lived yet.  I switched my 19-inch flat CRT and 21-inch non-flat CRT for 2 identical 21-inch flat CRT, that is 3.5 feet of monitors on my 4 foot desk. The only thing i regret is i can not have 3 of them and that LCD would be cooler.

Was gone Friday, went to the Forth Worth to the Texas Speedway to The Team Texas Racing School. Shell won a 10 lap-drive of a NASCAR and one 4-lap ride @ 160MPH so we went to do that. It is more than Awesome, it is like describing Comedex, you just can not do it.  you can check out pictures here, http://www.worldinfomall.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=69 .

David Miller found this clip on the web and it is way funny, http://www.waveworks.net/mac.html 

NOAA has some great pictures of the blackout in http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s2015.htm , these are real unlike this one that is fake, http://www.strangecosmos.com/view.adp?picture_id=11251 , you can read about the fake one here, http://www.snopes.com/photos/blackout.asp

Coolest Web Site Ever, http://www.geodata.gov

If you think IMing is not a staple in this world, check this out, http://www.jupiterevents.com/im/fall03/index.html , yes a Conference/EXPo on IMing. I have received 3 invits to this thing.

Cool web service that is free from Unisys, http://weather.unisysfsp.com/PDCWebService/WeatherServices.asmx, you can read more at http://www.unisysfsp.com/default.aspx?catID=17

Cool and funny weather site, http://www.weatherpixie.com/

You can specify which version of ASP.NET runs your Web application by using the ASPNET_RegIIS.exe tool that ships with each version of the .NET Framework. You can run this for help, ASPNET_REGIIS.EXE /?
For Web applications, the configuration file is named Web.config and resides in the virtual directory for your application. Subdirectories of your Web application can also have a Web.config file, and the pages in the subdirectory are governed by both the settings contained in that specific Web.config as well as the settings contained in Web.config for the parent application's virtual directory. The settings contained in the configuration file in the virtual directory in which the Web files exist take precedence over the configuration file in the parent application's virtual directory if the settings conflict.

Microsoft once again makes stupid decisions, why in the world would you make it impossible to have a web site running a .net web app ( asp.net) have a .net web app under it. ASP could handle it but not .NET.  .NET sucks and is just a good tool to play with, not ready for primetime.  It will be 5 years before .NEt can be used for real work. To memory heavy and way to limited.