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  • 'Tis the season for shopping!
  • 1 down 2 to go
  • 100 Years to the day
  • 9/11 - Four Years Later
  • 9/11 - Three Years Later
  • 9/11 reactions - A look back
  • A day of silence
  • A little bit of computer BBS history
  • AlanBarber.Org Blogshares Press Release #1
  • Another Job Rejection
  • Another week down the drain
  • Are you folding yet?
  • Back from D.C.
  • Back from the convention
  • Back to the drudgery of life
  • Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
  • Been one of those days
  • BGSU Student Found With Hit List and Weapon
  • Blessed John XXIII Parish Website
  • BlogShares is back!
  • Bought My First Gun Today
  • Building a computer for a friend - Part 1
  • Building a computer for a friend - Part 2
  • Care to chat?
  • Christmas Gifts 2009 - Part 2
  • Christmas Loot
  • Cleveland finally wins one!
  • Cleveland wins again!
  • Congress back do-not-call list
  • Cowboy bebop and a beer
  • Dennis Miller just might have a point
  • Do Not call list take 2
  • Easter
  • Evi and the Bird
  • Get me a free iPod!
  • Godspeed and Be Safe Brother
  • Going to Washington D.C.
  • Google Adsense Ads
  • Google Rankings and this site
  • Grand Rapids, Ohio Apple Butter Festival
  • Happy 21st Brithday Sweetie
  • Happy 4th of July
  • Happy 4th!
  • Happy Belated Thanksgiving!
  • Happy Birthday To Me
  • Happy Easter
  • Happy Fat Tuesday!
  • Happy Holidays
  • Happy New Year 2005!
  • Happy New Year 2010
  • Happy St. Patrick's Day!
  • Happy Valentines Day
  • Have a safe and fun Halloween!
  • Hello Advanced-Basic.Com visitors
  • Help me donate my CodeMash Wii to charity
  • Hi I'm a geek
  • How I have missed thee!
  • How to kill yourself in 4 easy steps
  • Human 1 - Arachnid 0
  • I am bored
  • I graduated!
  • I hate being sick
  • I have a famous girlfriend!
  • I have a small furry friend on my porch
  • I think God is trying to tell you something!
  • I'm all geeked up tonight
  • I'm feeling a bit punchy tonight
  • I'm on vacation!
  • I'm such a slacker
  • Is there anyone out there?
  • It's Almost Christmas 2009
  • Just a boring Monday
  • Just an off day
  • Le semestre est fini!
  • Leaving for NYC
  • Making a Budget and Starting to get into shape
  • Man I'm getting too old
  • Meet the parents
  • Merry Christmas 2004!
  • Merry Christmas 2005
  • Monday afternoon thoughs
  • Most stolen cars state-by-state
  • Mr Snowman says Hello
  • My "Personal" Business Card
  • My 2004 Christmas List
  • My cat Evi jumping over my girlfriend
  • My First Blog Post
  • My Goals, New Years Resolutions, for 2009
  • My New Years Resolution
  • My trip to New York City
  • New colors for Spring!
  • New Guest Poster
  • New years resolutions for 2010
  • New York City Or Bust!
  • No I'm not a zombie from that new movie!
  • No I'm Not Dead...Yet!
  • Now that's a good idea... not!
  • OctoBeard 2010 Day 2
  • only 5 days left
  • Out of town for the weekend
  • Page 23
  • Plans for next Toledo Nerd Dinner
  • Pope John Paul II has died
  • Power Outages in Eastern US.
  • Saddam Captured!
  • Scarlet and Gray the winners of the day!
  • Scott Peterson sentenced to death
  • Shopping for the girlfriend or wife
  • Social Networks
  • Starting the year off on the wrong foot
  • Surgery Time!
  • Thank you Maximum PC Magazine staff!
  • Thanksgiving
  • The christmas goodies
  • The first mass of Blessed John XXIII Catholic Parish
  • The New Cigars Have Arrived!
  • The Not So Grand Olympic Games
  • The perils of my life
  • The short & simple story of the credit crisis by Jonathan Jarvis
  • The vacation is over
  • The year of the wooden monkey
  • There Are 24 Useable Hours In Every Day
  • Time for another Toledo Nerd Dinner
  • Toledo Nerd Dinner 1.0
  • Toledo Nerd Dinner 3.0 Date/Time/Location
  • Up and running on the new VDS
  • Update time
  • UPS looses Citigroup customer information
  • Valentines Day
  • Verizon Phone Problems - Part 1
  • Verizon Phone Problems - Part 2
  • Veterans Day 2009
  • Watch out for those phishing emails!
  • We Exist
  • We have a new Pope!
  • Why do I feel like I got screwed?
  • Why oh why!?!
  • Worst birthday... EVER!
  • Yes I'm still alive

• Book Reviews

  • Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine
  • Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
  • The Enterprise and Scrum
  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

• Computers & Technology

  • 46 down, 2 to go
  • 64-bits from Intel on Monday
  • 802.16a - The Last Mile Solution?
  • A little bit of computer BBS history
  • A mini-itx computer cluster
  • A new weblog worth reading for any techie
  • A pitch to move to a virtual machine based development environment
  • A Quick CSS Tip
  • A Rotary Dial Browser?
  • Alan Stevens - Coding In Public
  • An early April fools?
  • Are PDAs dead?
  • Are you folding yet?
  • August 2009 FANUG Meeting
  • Automatic Gmail Invite Giver-Awayer
  • Backing Up Windows Shares & Settings
  • Bandwidth Drought?
  • Bandwidth Drought? (part 2)
  • being wired is a human right?
  • BSD for Linux users
  • Building a computer for a friend - Part 1
  • Building a computer for a friend - Part 2
  • C# Mutex for running single instance of a program
  • Can I bum $1200 off you?
  • Care to chat?
  • CodeMash 2009 Jam Band Video
  • CodeMash 2012 Call For Speakers
  • CodeStock 2009 Recap
  • CodeStock 2009 Reminder
  • Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool
  • Coverity scans FreeBSD for potential software flaws
  • DCOM RPC Worm in the Wild!
  • Distro Wars - The Card Game
  • Download Visual Studio Express 2005 For Free
  • DragonFly BSD - Attack of the Code Fork!
  • End of the road for SMTP?
  • Enterprise Web Applications Popular
  • Findlay Area .NET User Group (November 30th, 2005)
  • Fix Trillian Crashing On Startup
  • Fixing SQLAgent is not allowed to run error
  • Free Anti-Virus Software
  • Free Windows SP2 Update CD From Microsoft
  • FreeBSD 4.9 Release Announced
  • FreeBSD 4.9 Released
  • FreeBSD 5.4 Released
  • FreeBSD has native Java support!
  • FreeBSD PHP Ports Changes
  • FreeBSD Ports Collection Hits 9000
  • FreeBSD QuickSheets
  • FTC wants to show it's fangs to spammers
  • Getting back into the programming groove
  • Getting back to what I like... Coding!
  • Girls less confident on computers
  • GMail is gee... unavailable.
  • Google Web Accelerator Security Issues
  • Grand Rapids GiveCamp 2009
  • HA! Oh, now this is funny! Apple is going to switch to Intel CPUs
  • Happy Personal Firewall Day
  • Help me donate my CodeMash Wii to charity
  • Hormel fights to take back spam
  • How did you get started in software development?
  • How to delete an undeletable Web Service Extension in IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003
  • How to Disable Windows Messenger
  • HR 4392 - Technology Retraining And Investment Now Act of 2004
  • I'm a Web Addict!
  • I'm all geeked up tonight
  • I'm Digitizing My Brain!
  • I've started reading "Code" by Charles Petzold
  • Icon for quick desktop lock in XP
  • Immortalized for the ages.
  • IndyCodeCamp 2009 Recap
  • Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine
  • Intel says California is anti-business
  • Interview with Bill Gates
  • IT Outsourcing
  • Lansing Day of .Net – A Retrospective
  • Late nights at the computer bad for you?
  • Linux and Opensource: When does the hype end?
  • Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Preview
  • Maximum PC Magazine vs. Computer Power User Magazine
  • Microsoft Community Blogs
  • Microsoft pays AOL $750 million...
  • Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification
  • Microsoft Visual C++.net For Free!
  • More than two downloads at a time with Internet Explorer
  • Moving jobs overseas
  • MS Security Version 2.0
  • My "Personal" Business Card
  • My brother's new computer
  • My Dream Home Office
  • New home server update
  • New Wireless Network
  • New worm fixes security hole!
  • Opera 9.0 (Merlin) Preview 1
  • Photo Gallery of Microsoft Campus
  • Plans for next Toledo Nerd Dinner
  • Playing taps for a fallen hero
  • Porn peddler gets arrested
  • Project Management Tools
  • Project monkey1 has begun
  • Scott Long talks about SMPng in FreeBSD
  • Seagate 1.5 TB External Drive Review
  • Setting PreLogin Banner on SSH Server
  • Shesh! What a mess!
  • Software That Lasts 200 Years
  • Spam king shuts down... YEA RIGHT!
  • spam-bot tests cuase problems
  • Subversion 1.2.0 released
  • System Administrator Appreciation Day
  • Thank you Maximum PC Magazine staff!
  • The 2009 Heartland District Technology Conference Schedule
  • The 2010 Heartland District Technology Conference Schedule
  • The 80/20 Rule for Web Application Security
  • The future of EMail
  • The future of RAM is in Nanotubes
  • The girlfriend's computer is almost finished
  • The growing zombie computer problem in Asia
  • The Ultimate Case Modder Tools
  • The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard - Alan Stevens discusses open spaces
  • The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard - Brian Prince on Working for Microsoft
  • Three questions to ask an engineer at an interview
  • Toledo Nerd Dinner 1.0
  • Toledo Nerd Dinner 3.0 Date/Time/Location
  • Tutorials and Guides for BSD
  • Twitter Poll: Southern Technology Job Market
  • Two documentaries worth watching
  • Up and running on the new VDS
  • Use Wi-Fi to Resell Broadband, Legally!
  • VeriSign hijacks domain system
  • Virus Writing 101?
  • Visual Studio 2005 Express
  • Watch out for those phishing emails!
  • Why I don't recomment Firefox
  • Windows XP SP2
  • Wireless lan quality
  • Work Offline not shown in IE
  • Worm in Works to Exploit Windows Security Flaw

  • BSD / Linux

    • BSD for Linux users
    • Coverity scans FreeBSD for potential software flaws
    • DragonFly BSD - Attack of the Code Fork!
    • FreeBSD 4.9 Released
    • FreeBSD 5.4 Released
    • FreeBSD has native Java support!
    • FreeBSD PHP Ports Changes
    • FreeBSD Ports Collection Hits 9000
    • FreeBSD QuickSheets
    • Getting back into the programming groove
    • Scott Long talks about SMPng in FreeBSD
    • Setting PreLogin Banner on SSH Server
    • Tutorials and Guides for BSD

  • Coding

    • A pitch to move to a virtual machine based development environment
    • C# Mutex for running single instance of a program

  • Reviews

    • Seagate 1.5 TB External Drive Review

  • SQL Server

    • Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine

  • Tips & Tricks

    • A pitch to move to a virtual machine based development environment
    • A Quick CSS Tip
    • Backing Up Windows Shares & Settings
    • Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool
    • Create and Use Windows XP Password Reset Disk
    • Fix Trillian Crashing On Startup
    • Fixing SQLAgent is not allowed to run error
    • Free Windows SP2 Update CD From Microsoft
    • FreeBSD QuickSheets
    • Get a free Windows update CD from Microsoft
    • How to delete an undeletable Web Service Extension in IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003
    • How to Disable Windows Messenger
    • Icon for quick desktop lock in XP
    • Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification
    • More than two downloads at a time with Internet Explorer
    • October (2003) Windows Security Updates
    • The 80/20 Rule for Web Application Security
    • Watch out for those phishing emails!
    • Work Offline not shown in IE

  • Windows

    • Backing Up Windows Shares & Settings

• Technology Events

  • Ann Arbor Day of .Net 2010 Registration Open
  • Announcing Lansing Day of .Net on June 25th
  • Cleveland GiveCamp 2010
  • CodeMash 2012 Call For Speakers
  • CodeMash v2.0.1.0
  • Codestock 2010
  • Columbus Give Camp 2011
  • Grand Rapids GiveCamp 2009
  • Kalamazoo X Conference Registration & Announcement
  • The 2010 Heartland District Technology Conference Schedule

  • Computer Conferences

    • Ann Arbor Day of .Net 2010 Registration Open
    • Announcing Lansing Day of .Net on June 25th
    • August 2009 FANUG Meeting
    • CodeMash 2012 Call For Speakers
    • CodeMash v2.0.1.0
    • CodeStock 2009 Recap
    • CodeStock 2009 Reminder
    • Codestock 2010
    • IndyCodeCamp 2009 Recap
    • Kalamazoo X Conference Registration & Announcement
    • The 2010 Heartland District Technology Conference Schedule

  • GiveCamps

    • Cleveland GiveCamp 2010
    • Columbus Give Camp 2011
    • Grand Rapids GiveCamp 2009

• Blogging

  • A new weblog worth reading for any techie
  • A Quick CSS Tip
  • AOL users are blogging!
  • Blogger Burnout?
  • Bloggers Protected from Libel
  • Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask
  • ExpressionEngine 1.2 and Photo Gallery Now Available
  • ExpressionEngine Control Panel Themes
  • ExpressionEngine modules I'm working on
  • ExpressionEngine Powered!
  • ExpressionEngine Version 1.1 Feature List
  • ExpressionEngine Version 1.2.1 Released
  • Finished the site conversion
  • Get a free copy of ExpressionEngine!
  • Getting back into the programming groove
  • How to make an ExpressionEngine test site
  • Microsoft Community Blogs
  • MovableType 3.0 Beta
  • My First Blog Post
  • My So-Called Blog
  • My Weblog's First Birthday
  • New Blog Style
  • Now running ExpressionEngine 1.3.1
  • Social Networks
  • The end of MovableType?

  • ExpressionEngine

    • A Quick CSS Tip
    • ExpressionEngine 1.2 and Photo Gallery Now Available
    • ExpressionEngine Control Panel Themes
    • ExpressionEngine modules I'm working on
    • ExpressionEngine Powered!
    • ExpressionEngine Version 1.1 Feature List
    • ExpressionEngine Version 1.2.1 Released
    • Get a free copy of ExpressionEngine!
    • Getting back into the programming groove
    • How to make an ExpressionEngine test site
    • Now running ExpressionEngine 1.3.1

• Work

  • About freaking time I got a job!
  • Advice on Second Interview for Programmer Job Needed
  • Another wasted job interview
  • Apparently, it was all a lie!
  • Applied for another job
  • Business Plan Part One
  • Finally some good news
  • First Job Interview
  • First Job Interview - Afterwords
  • Getting back into the programming groove
  • Getting back to what I like... Coding!
  • Goodbye UPS
  • Grand Rapids GiveCamp 2009
  • Happy Labor-Free Day!
  • Hey, Wait! I still have a blog?
  • How did you get started in software development?
  • How to kill yourself in 4 easy steps
  • I have a new job!
  • It wasn't really a meeting
  • Moving jobs overseas
  • not working today
  • Second Interview - Afterwords
  • Starting a small business
  • The 2009 Heartland District Technology Conference Schedule
  • The big push to the finish
  • The big push to the finish *update*
  • The job quandary...
  • The Job Rejection
  • The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard - Brian Prince on Working for Microsoft
  • There's a lot to starting a business
  • Three questions to ask an engineer at an interview
  • Twitter Poll: Southern Technology Job Market
  • UPS looses Citigroup customer information
  • We are finally live!
  • What I'm up to
  • Working at UPS - Day 1
  • Working at UPS - Day 2
  • Working at UPS - Day 3
  • Working at UPS - Day 4
  • Working at UPS day... Heh, Like I'm Actually Keeping Count!
  • Working on The New E-Commerce Website
  • Yes I'm still alive
  • Yet Another Job Post
  • Yet another update on the website

  • Entrepreneurship

    • Business Plan Part One
    • Getting back to what I like... Coding!
    • Starting a small business
    • The big push to the finish
    • The big push to the finish *update*
    • There's a lot to starting a business
    • We are finally live!
    • Working on The New E-Commerce Website
    • Yet another update on the website

• Culture

  • 5 Vegas Shorty Review
  • 9/11 Never Take For Granted, Never Forget
  • Alan’s Garlic Parmesean Turkey Meatloaf
  • Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
  • CAO L'Anniversaire Cameroon Review
  • Chocolate Fondu at Max Brenner
  • Christmas can [still] change the world. This year, Give Presence.
  • Christmas Gifts 2009 - Part 1
  • Christmas Gifts 2009 - Part 2
  • CodeMash 2009 Jam Band Video
  • Everything is amazing, nobody is happy... Louis CK on Conan O'Brian Show
  • I picked up a new hobby
  • My latest cigar purchases
  • New Cigars have arrived!
  • OctoBeard 2010 - Day 0
  • OctoBeard 2010 - Day 1
  • The New Cigars Have Arrived!
  • The State of My Humidor Address
  • Veterans Day 2009
  • We Exist

  • Cigars

    • 5 Vegas Shorty Review
    • CAO L'Anniversaire Cameroon Review
    • I picked up a new hobby
    • My latest cigar purchases
    • New Cigars have arrived!
    • The New Cigars Have Arrived!
    • The State of My Humidor Address

  • Food

    • Alan’s Garlic Parmesean Turkey Meatloaf
    • Alan's Peanut Butter Banana Wrap
    • Chocolate Fondu at Max Brenner

  • Wine

    • Christmas Gifts 2009 - Part 2

  • TV, Movies, & Music

    • 9/11 and TV
    • A downer of a week
    • Are you watching Dead Like Me?
    • Aurg! Reruns again!
    • Bad Boys II
    • CD Music Settlement
    • CD price cuts and Colleges offering music subscriptions.
    • CodeMash 2009 Jam Band Video
    • Could the RIAA be wrong?
    • Dead Like Me
    • Dead Like Me renewed for season 2!
    • Dead Like Me Season 2
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    • Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
    • Free For All
    • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    • How to get 50 free MP3s legally
    • I saw "The West Wing" being filmed!
    • J-Lo / Ben split
    • Johnny Carson dies
    • Just saw Matrix: Revolutions
    • Master and Commander
    • Matrix: Reloaded
    • MTV VMAs, all flash and no substance
    • Nelly Furtado's Folklore
    • Possible Farscape Mini-Series?
    • Return of The Family Guy
    • Showtime's "Out Of Order" a great show!
    • State of TV report
    • TechTV is no more...
    • The Family Guy Returns?
    • The Not So Grand Olympic Games
    • The Passion of Christ
    • Watched Big Fish last night
    • Wonderfalls

• Video Games

  • Been playing Diablo2 all weekend
  • Carmack speaks to GameSpy
  • Diablo 2: LOD patch 1.10 released today!
  • Diablo II 1.10 beta patch released
  • First looks at Sony PSP handheld
  • Help me donate my CodeMash Wii to charity
  • How to Get Your Woman to Game
  • It's a gamers weekend!
  • Kyle Bennett rants on NVIDIA
  • Ladder Reset ?!?!?!
  • More Nintendo Revolution details released
  • My Diablo II: LOD 1.10 Necromancer Guide
  • Next Gen Console Rant and Pimping a Contest
  • Next gen Nintendo console "Revolution" to have wi-fi
  • Nintendo - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  • Nintendo DS Launch Details
  • Nintendo Power Universal Codes
  • Nokia N-Gage = N-Flop?
  • PvP Elemental Druid Guide
  • Sick of lawsuit happy people
  • So many games not enough money
  • The Acts of Gord
  • The kiddie game debate
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess delayed
  • Video Games Good For You?
  • Women and Games

• Jokes & Other Funnies

  • A mans diary
  • Cats and Dogs
  • chain letter making fun of chain letters
  • Democrat or Republican?
  • Evi the cat going crazy
  • Good Old Ohio!
  • High School VS. College
  • Hippocratic Oath For Software Engineers
  • My cat Evi jumping over my girlfriend
  • Nearly New Toro 3 hp snowblower
  • The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats
  • The first realizations that you're not in college anymore
  • Tips for surviving college
  • What Things On Your Resume Really Mean

• Politics & Government

  • 2003 Election - Good and Bad
  • 2004 Presidential Election - Not Quite Over
  • 2004 Presidential Election - Now It's Over
  • A Different Point of View
  • CPAC 2004 Draft Schedule
  • Daniel Hannan MEP Rips British PM Gordon Brown
  • Easy way to keep up with political polls
  • Fair Use Ruling
  • French banned from using email
  • Hilliary Clinton files with FEC to run for President!
  • HR 4392 - Technology Retraining And Investment Now Act of 2004
  • Hype The Obama Effect
  • Inauguration of President of The United States of America
  • Isn't red a pretty color?
  • John Kerry is coming to town
  • John Kerry Protest
  • Mission to the Moon?
  • Mission to the Moon? - Part 2
  • National Do Not Call List Goes Live
  • OCRF 2004 Recap
  • Ohio still in limbo
  • Peaceniks find something new to complain about...
  • Saw Angela 'Bay' Buchanan speak
  • The short & simple story of the credit crisis by Jonathan Jarvis
  • Veterans Day 2009
  • What is America's true form of government?
  • Will We Ever Get an Anti-Spam Law?
  • You better have voted!