The Killers

Wow,

What an awesome concert. The Killers totally rocked! I was thoroughly impressed. The lead singer has a bit of an ego, but who doesn’t in the music industry. I still enjoyed the show. It was total high energy and filled with enthusiasm. I would go to their next concert if there new album is anything like the new song they performed last night. I was quite impressed the lead swore a suit, especially under those hot stage lights.

They played:
Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine
Mr. Brightside
Smile Like You Mean It
Somebody Told Me
On Top
Change Your Mind
Believe Me Natalie
Midnight Show
Everything

Awesome how, I can't wait until I go to Vancouver for the Alanis Morissette concert.

Definition of Insanity

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result"
Author: Albert Einstein

Deep Dive

The Deep Dive today was totally awesome. Dan Sellers and Kate Gregory entertained about 500 weary eyed programmers looking at code on a theater screen. Dan did an awesome job of demonstrating Excel automation. Kate on the other hand, burned Dan pretty good with the comment, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result".

Kate showed us some serious VSTO and normal Whidbey and it funciton A-OKAY. I just can't wait to get my copy of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.

Eight Easy Steps

How to stay paralyzed by fear of abandonment

How to defer to men in solve-able predicaments

How to control someone to be a carbon copy of you

How to have that not work and have them run away from you

How to keep people at arm's length and never get too close

How to mistrust the ones you supposedly love the most

How to pretend you're fine and don't need help from anyone

How to feel worthless unless you're serving or helping someone

How to play all pious when you're really a hypocrite

How to hate god when you're a pray-er and a spiritualist

How to sabotage your fantasies by fears of success

How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else

How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself

How to numb a la holic to avoid going within

How to stay stuck in blue by blaming them for everything

Change

I was watching a "Whoopi Goldberg: Back to Broadway". It was good, very entertaining, she hit home about many things. One thing that resonated with me was her analogy about change.

"Change is inevitable. It's going to happen no matter what you do, you can pull it, you can cut it, you can burn it, it doesn't matter, it happens whether you participate or not. And now the question becomes, do you participate on your knees, or do you participate standing straight up in the way that's most comfortable for you."

That is so true. I have decided that I will stand up and participate. Change will happen no matter what you do to stop it. Either you can participate or not. Participation is always better than not. It might be a bit scary, it might be a little terrifying, but the most terrifying things in life usually end up being worth the most sacrifice. You can't live on an island anymore, it just doesn't work, no one is isolated, everyone is connected.

I also like the quote Whoopi used from her trip to Amsterdam. She visited the Ann Frank house. She said there were large black and white photographs hanging from the ceiling. They looked like they were suspended in midair. She said the pictures were very disturbing, they showed people being dragged out into the streets. She new that could not happen in America. In America no one would stand by and let you get dragged out into the street for speaking out against the government, and in America no one would stand by and let you door get kicked in and dragged out because of your Religious preference. And she was certain that no one would stand by and let your door get kick in because of your sexual preference that stuff just doesn't happen. She had seen how far they had come. America is the country where you get to believe whatever you want to, that’s just the way it is. Then on her way out, she saw a sign, it had a quote on it, the quote read, "In spite of everything, I still believe there is good in people". She was very angry about this, she was loud, "how can you say that after what I’ve seen in here", until she read the author of the quote, Ann Frank.

That also resonated with me. After all the bad stuff that's gone on in our World, I still believe people want to do the right thing. We can get blinded by hatred, jealously, or fear, but at the end of the day, I don't believe people are inherently evil.

Change is coming, many new and scary things are coming. Preferences are changing, people are starting to notice what's going on, and they aren't going to take it anymore. "I'll be watching you" she hummed from the stage, "I'll be watching you, every more you make every vow you break, i'll be watching you, George"

What an awesome show. I must watch it again.

DotNetCalgary User Group

The User Group is up and running. Check it out, http://groups.msn.com/DotNetCalgary, joining is free.

We are currently going through a reorganization. Once that is done, new stuff will be happenening. It's gonna be totally awesome. Best part, it's free. If you want to volunteer that is great, if you just want to come to the presentations, that's cool too.

Grey's Anatomy

Wow, what an awesomely funny show! I must say that i'm impressed. The show is witty, humor and drama driven, and has a steller cast.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/

Taken from above url

Meet Meredith Grey. She's a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible.

Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and fellow first-year interns Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George O'Malley and Alex Karev were students yesterday. Today they're doctors and, in a world where on the job training can be a matter of life and death, they're all juggling the ups and downs of their own personal lives.

The five interns struggle to form friendships in this most stressful and competitive atmosphere. Meredith's medical ambition is overshadowed by a troubling secret: Her mother, a noted pioneering surgeon, is struggling with a tragic and devastating illness. Cristina is a study in contradiction; highly competitive and driven, she eschews any favors in order to make it on her own. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens is the small-town girl who grew up dirt poor and, in spite of paying for her medical career by modeling, still struggles with her self-esteem. George O'Malley is the warm but insecure boy next door who always manages to do or say the wrong thing at the wrong time. In spite of his attraction to women, he's treated as "just one of the girls." And Alex Karev, the intern the other interns love to have, masks his working class roots with arrogance and ambition.

The interns are guided by an established team of doctors who are determined to shape them into skilled surgeons or break them: Miranda Bailey, a senior resident responsible for training them, is so tough that she's nicknamed "The Nazi." Derek Shepherd is the flirtatious but very capable surgeon who shares a forbidden but undeniable sexual attraction with Meredith. Preston Burke's arrogance is second only to his skill with a scalpel. Overseeing them all is Dr. Richard Webber, Seattle Grace's paternal, but no-nonsense chief of surgery.

Grey's Anatomy focuses on young people struggling to be doctors and doctors struggling to stay human. It's the drama and intensity of medical training mixed with the funny, sexy, painful lives of interns who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.

Grey's Anatomy stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Isaiah Washington as Preston Burke, Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, T.R. Knight as George O'Malley, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey and James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber.

Shonda Rhimes (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge) is creator and executive producer. Mark Gordon (Saving Private Ryan), Betsy Beers (200 Cigarettes) and Jim Parriott (The American Embassy) are executive producers. Peter Horton is co-executive producer. Grey's Anatomy is a Touchstone Television Production.

First iPod!

I did it, i went out and bought an iPod, a 60GB Photo iPod, what an awesome device. The only pieceo f advice i have when buying an iPod is to follow the instructions to the letter. That was my only problem. I even reformatted my computer (my registry was messed up).

Anyway, i have uploaded a few GB of music and i'm good to go