Items Tagged "review"

Book Review: Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod

For the impatient, or those who trust my word completely, I highly recommend reading Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod. Still reading? Okay – Hugh MacLeod ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, August 28, 2009
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Book Review: The Big Idea by Donny Deutsch

I’m going to keep this review of The Big Idea by Donny Deutsch and Catherine Whitney very short. Unlike this book, I don’t want my post to be a waste ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, May 04, 2009
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The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

I’ve just completed reading The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson, a history of sorts on finance. This marked my fourth book on finance since becoming ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, March 27, 2009
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The No-business Meeting

Lately I’ve had a fascination with the world’s financial systems. More than just the current crisis, I’ve been reading on the history of finance ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, February 20, 2009
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Thoughts on Kindle, the Amazon eBook Reader

Because I've been lax on posting lately, I'm going to re-purpose a comment I left on Charles Petzold's blog. In reply to Kindle Me Elmo: I am not impressed. ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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Del.icio.us in FireFox 2.0

As I've posted before, del.icio.us fills a need for me to "mini-blog". It's never been useful to me as a bookmark service, and this was due to the ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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Screencasting Software Roundup

I'm in the process of searching for a good screen cast recording solution on Windows. Since I will be doing presentations on code, it is of the highest ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, November 20, 2006
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20 minutes into the future...

W-W-Wel-Welcome the new new browser wars, same as the old browser wars. Well, maybe things have changed a bit-t-t-t. (I'm rereading the intro and ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, October 26, 2006
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Mr Conservative: Barry Goldwater

I just finished watching "Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater," a documentary on HBO. If you don't have HBO, you'll have to wait for a video ...

Posted By Mike On Saturday, September 23, 2006
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Minister of Orders - Republic of Tea

It's late, I need sleep, yet I owe it to Republic of Tea to post this. I enjoy a good cup of tea, and I'm very picky when it comes to my tea. I've had ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, June 18, 2006
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Picasa and Picasa Web Review

Google has just moved to beta it's photo sharing service, Picasa Web. You can apply for a beta account here. There are really two parts to the service, ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, June 18, 2006
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DaMike's Notebook

The problem with technology is often it is invented without need. Sometimes, it is invented with a need in mind, but turns out to be far better suited ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, June 04, 2006
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Book Review: Code

Code, though you may have understandably guessed otherwise, has nothing to do with dead Italians painting secret messages about the bedroom habits of ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, June 01, 2006
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I wanna see you in FinePix pictures

This year, when my folks asked what I wanted for my "big ticket item" I told them a new camera, the FujiFilm FinePix S5200. (Well, that and a 1 GB memory ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, January 01, 2006
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In the end, we are the monster

King Kong. King Kong! King-fucking-Kong!Yes, it's been a while since my last post. Time to blog has been hard to come by, but never fear, I'm still here ...

Posted By Mike On Saturday, December 17, 2005
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The Bitch is Back

Tonight I was catching up on TiVo, watching Sunday's Family Guy when an ad caught my eye. I decided to slow down to normal speed and watch this ad, which ...

Posted By Mike On Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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Book Review: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

In true reading rainbow style, I've just finished reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and will give you my review. Neverwhere is best described as a modern ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, October 30, 2005
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What the bleep do I know?

I just watched the indy filck, "What the bleep do we know?" You can save yourself the chore of reading my blog by just going to rent it now, but I know ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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Sell me my childhood

Tonight I had my 800th blog view. I have 36 comments for 35 posts and 21 kudos. With stats like these, I know my place in Heaven is all but assured...Today, ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, June 26, 2005
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Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

Last night, I went to see the movie Hotel Rwanda. My "date" for the event stood me up, but this is par for the course with this particular acquaintance ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, February 24, 2005
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About Michael

Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member of ETNUG and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Co-Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and GameMarx.

Proud father of two amazing girls, Rachel and Hannah, and loving husband to Cicelie who inflates and pops his ego as necessary.

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