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Words Are Hard

I've been sitting here at the keyboard for an hour now, and I've started writing half a dozen different posts. They're all too much work for a lazy Saturday, though. They each require hundreds of words, time spent editing and more time spent re-editing. So I haven't written...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 11-29-2008
Diabetes Research Fundraiser

At work, we are having a fundraiser for Diabetes Research Institute. To try to get more sponsors, one of my coworkers decided to turn himself into Mr. T, step by step. He's skinny. He's white. But so far he's raised $1400. Read his story after you take a peek at this...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 10-30-2008
GiveCamp MKE

I'm very excited to announce that we are planning the first ever GiveCamp in the Milwaukee area: GiveCamp MKE . In fact, it's one of the first GiveCamps anywhere. "What's a GiveCamp?", you ask. In short, it is an opportunity for developers, designers, DBAs, project managers...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-05-2008
Testing PreCode

I'm using this post to test PreCode -- a code snippet formatting plugin for Windows Live Writer. It uses SyntaxHighlighter on the client side and this plugin just sends the needed code to my blog engine. As a test I thought I'd just add a couple short snippets, using some of the different...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 07-16-2008
Blog Recategorization

As I mentioned earlier , I was bored tonight. Rather than visiting MySpace I decided to do a little work on the categories I use in my blog. I didn't remove any categories, but I did add a few. As of right now, all of my posts are tagged as either Personal , Professional or both...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 07-12-2008
Updated OPML

I have finally updated my OPML file , which is always linked from the sidebar of the site. If you have any suggestions for other blogs I might be interested in, please let me know.

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 04-18-2008
WI Social .NETworking

Chris just mentioned this so I thought I'd write a follow up post. Several months ago I created a Facebook group for the WI .NET Users Group, although I never really publicized it, and had actually forgotten about it until today. Well, today, Chris created a LinkedIn group for the UG, and that...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 03-25-2008
Banjo and Open Source

I don't remember how I found it in the first place anymore, but I recently started listening to a new podcast called PC Load Letter . It's two guys that used to work together on Subversion (and now work together at Google) talking about open source software and related topics. So...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 03-10-2008
A Christmas Shopping Story

So Charlize and I were out Christmas shopping for Kelly a couple months ago. We went to Barnes and Noble to see if there were any good books for Mommy. We entered the store on the second floor through the kids section, so I grabbed a book for Charlie to read while I was shopping. While walking...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 02-22-2008
Three Years Of Mind Tapping Gooeyness

So I've been writing on this site for just over three years now, and this post is #230. I really enjoy it and wish that I had more things to say and more time to say them. That said, I've got a few goals for the blog for the upcoming year. In order: Write more technical posts...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 02-20-2008

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