Ok so I've been awarded a couple of prizes from Community-Credit, and I'm forever wondering.  Where do they get that cool stupid crap at?  Ok, so let me first say that I'm fairly banner blind.  I never really noticed that there were Think Geek banners all over the Community-Credit site.  Or even knew what they did.  Until now I never got anything good in life from a banner.  Out of all the  stuff they got on Think Geek I initially ordered some cool stuff that I really need like a crossover adapter.  How cool is that?  An adapter that takes a normal Ethernet cable and turns it into a cross over cable. Sweet!  I don't know when but I'm sure I'll need this some day.  I just hope i have it with me when I do.  The other cool thing I got was a power squid.  This ...

Well I stayed up until 11:30 last night trying to get my last minute entries into community-credit.  Thanks to my last minute efforts I fell into 13th place. 

I won a sleeping dog!  As described by the award letter -

The Sleeping Dog is an outrageous office toy that consists of a fake dog on a little pillow. Everyone who sees the cute little dog lying quietly by your desk will do a double take because it looks so real. Strategically place the dog in your office to startle co-workers and visitors. The Sleeping Dog is a fun office companion that is sure to bring some laughter to your workplace.

I have a perfect home for it right here in my cube!

David Silverlight has done great things with Community-Credit that I wasn’t aware of.  Apparently there are other sites integrated with Community-Credit.   When you sign up for an event on Alex’s SherStaff you get 1,000 points.  Plus you’d get more points for actually showing up.  This still leaves a lot of work for David.   I can’t imagine what kind of masochist he is.  Not only does he have millions of points to conservatively hand out, I bet there is a lot of contention about what is fair and what is not fair.

I was looking to see what other people do to gain points.  That’s how I stumbled upon the sites integration.  I noticed that some people are fairly conservative others are fairly aggressive.  I saw a 1000 word article that was posted in four sections - that’s roughly 250 words per part.  Not saying that it wasn’t a good ...

So I got dasBlog installed and was using and was very very happy.  I got all excited and wanted to add an image.  that was fine but then I had a big space in my text.  So I used the align property to make it wrap.  I finished my post and submitted it.  That's when bad things started happening.  The space for the image was there but the actual image wasn't.  Not only that, when I right clicked where the image should be I got the properties for the image.  Confused yet?

So in searching the web I learned some things.  Align is deprecated for one.  We use float now.  Ok fine. . . it still doesn't work.  I know for certain that I'm a victim of the absolute positioning phantom.  I personally like a flow layout using a table but they'll probably deprecate that too!  (Actually I don't think ...

I just got done watching Mike Fitzmaurice's Introduction to Upcoming SharePoint Products and Technologies.  As I spell out the title of the presentation I think, "Wow, there's yet another way to describe the product without actually mentioning the name."  Plus he almost mentions a release date but just says later this year. 

I think the presentation was outstanding and if you are the least bit interested in the product you should take a look at it.  It doesn't mater how you work with it.  If you just happen to sit next to the guy who does SharePoint stuff you should still watch it.

Here's some stuff that makes it so great!

• He covers some of the new terminology in WSS 3.0.  There are Features, Components (made up of features) and sites (made up of components).
• The Site Management Functionality is so much better.  I can't tell you how often ...

Today I gave a presentation on the differences between SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services at South Florida Small Business Technology Association held at Citrix in Fort Lauderdale. They have great food! Here's the slides I used spsWssOverview.ppt. Here are some links to various sites that I demonstrated:

http://www.k2workflow.com/
http://mindsharp.com/
http://nintex.com/Home.aspx
http://sharepointsolutions.com/
http://sharepointu.com/
http://www.corasworks.net/
It was a great group of folks and a lot of fun. I hope they have me back someday. I forgot to include this in the presentation but I created a list at Amazon for SharePoint books for those who are interested. http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R27IQ7L66SABRF/002-9323862-2932824?%5Fencoding=UTF8