Phil801

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Name: Phil Burns
Date registered: September 15, 2005
URL: http://www.phil801.com
Jabber / Google Talk: phil801

Latest posts

  1. The Falliability of Hard Drives and the Recovery of Data — June 14, 2014
  2. The Distributed Nature of Email Systems Vs The IRS’s Claims — June 14, 2014
  3. Dissecting the IRS’s Claims Regarding Lois Lerner’s “Lost Email” — June 14, 2014
  4. A Technologist’s Peer-Reviewed, In-Depth, Simplified Analysis of the IRS Claim of Lois Lerner’s Email Being Deleted — June 14, 2014
  5. It’s official: Apple fanboy desperation has splashed off the bottom into the Land of the Ludicrous — February 13, 2014

Most commented posts

  1. Leukemia: So cute it just might kill you. — 44 comments
  2. I think I’m in that Anger stage — 33 comments
  3. My baby might have Leukemia — 27 comments
  4. By the way, just a warning, the guy coming in after us is Gay. — 22 comments
  5. Diagnosis is in – she has Leukemia — 19 comments

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Jul 19

Data Adapters in ADO.Net

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Data Adapters are the objects in ADO.Net that allow us to communicate and exchange data between a data source and a dataset.  With them, we are able to retrieve data from and write data to a database (actually any type of data repository). The type of database you are connecting to informs you as to …

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Jul 12

C# .Net Basics: Classes

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Classes A class is a user defined object or type construct that allows you to group together fields, properties and methods into a custom type that behaves in a consistent way.  A class is a reference type; when an instance of a class is instantiated, an object reference is returned to the calling function, not …

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Oct 02

LDS General Conference in a Modern World #ldsconf

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For most of my life paying close attention to LDS General Conference has been primarily an exercise in sleeping.  It’s not just conference, but anytime I stop moving and stare at a tv – it just puts me to sleep.  With modern technology though, Conference can and has, for me, become a much more interactive …

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Apr 29

News & Views 29 Apr 10

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This might be a regular feature, or it might just be hit and miss.  What it will be though is mostly quick quips on news items.  Some will be political, some tech, some other junk.  It’ll mostly just be stuff I found interesting, funny, stupid or worth noting. Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz received a …

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Apr 29

What I’m up to lately.. where things are for now

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Serenity is almost to her second anniversary of having Leukemia.  The doctors are currently telling us that she'll be 'cured' and be able to go off treatment in July.  Being cured means that she has successfully gone through the treatment protocols and if she doesn't relapse for 5 years she'll be considered medically cured.  Relapse …

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Apr 29

Resurrection

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So I haven't written for almost a year. Before that, it was really sporadic. Before that I often wrote more than once a day. So what happened? That's what I've been wondering tonight. Here are a couple thoughts. My life and my objectives completely changed after Serenity was diagnosed with Leukemia.  Blogging anything that wasn't …

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Jun 26

On Calendars, Contacts, Email and Anti-Microsoft People

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Seriously?  You still read my blog?  Shocking.  I’m just writing cause I want to vent. This morning I went to Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast which is a breakfast meeting of a great group of techies.  I haven’t been in a while -I haven’t done much of anything public lately, except blogging on Utah Preppers, and …

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Jan 28

Catching Up, Again.

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I’ve been blogging like crazy over on Utah Preppers and completely ignoring this one.  My passions and interests have shifted in the last year, quite a bit.  I’m not sure what’s coming down the road and I hope and pray that it’s not as bad as my imagination thinks it might be.  But, I’m pretty …

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