Money Well Spent - Episode 10 is now available. We have done it, finally we are in the double digit episode numbers! The show has been going well. It is a lot of fun to do and the feedback we have received has been exciting and encouraging. If you haven't listened to it, check it out.

I have been using Experts Exchange for approximately a 1.5 years now and I have been very pleased. It is a support community for software development, database design, database administration and more. Some of the channels cover software applications such as Quark, Word, Excel, etc. Other channels focus on server technologies such as SQL, Exchange, MySQL, etc.

For $9.99 per month (discounted when purchased as an annual subscription) it has been a great value. The way it works is as a paying member you are entitled to post unlimited questions to any channels. You assign a point value to your question and accept the best answer. Ac... [More]

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Today apple released a new video ipod and itunes 6. My only question is, what is the point? Video on the ipod, who needs it! It is appr. a 2 inch display, I have a tv already! Not to mention, do we really need another way to watch tv? People spend too much time watching tv, get a life!

Patrick pointed out to me a cool possibility. If the video ipod can generate out good quality video and sound to a tv, then it could serve as a portable Tivo.

Still, not entirely necessary, but cool.

Money Well Spent, a Winter12 Productions Podcast has just released episode 7. Now releasing episodes on Sundays, this excellent, fun and exciting podcast is worth listening to. Featuring Patrick Stuart, Jeff Phillips, Jessica Linn and me is a lot of fun and crazy ideas about how to spend money.

Some ideas are serious, others a bit off the wall, but all good. Check it out!

I have been working with MS Virtual Server 2005 a lot recently. I must say, overall it is a nice and efficient solution. Although it has some limitations that do not exist in VMWare, for the overall cost it is a good solution.

I am running five servers on one server. The box has a few IDE hard drives, 4 gig of memory and a 2.8 ghz processor. Aside from the memory, it is not an impressive box, but it runs all the servers with surprisingly high performance.