October 2009 Blog Posts

Lame .NET Blog Solutions, and Me…

Ugh… So after receiving hordes of spam comments through BlogEngine (even with Akismet set up), plus theme formatting issues, I decided to change over to another engine.  I need to re-do much of my content, anyway. I am on a .NET-based provider service, so using WordPress or Drupal was not in the cards.  I have installed and tried both.  Both are solid web applications, easy to set up and use.  I also tried setting up MovableType.  A horrid, HORRID beast.  If any of you out there who read this want to reaffirm or retort this claim, feel free,...

Maybe Our Government’s Not So Stupid, and Me…

Ok, I have an RSS feed to CodePlex, just to see what’s coming through there.  Every now and then a library or something gets posted and I bookmark it or use it in an app. So yesterday (didn’t see it until this morning), some MTBA something or other app gets posted.  I expand the link in Google Reader to see WTF it is, and the summary makes no damn sense at all.  I highlight “MBTA Fare Visualization Challenge”, paste it into Google, and go… Ok, the Massachusetts DOT has offered a challenge to developers on their website to...

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