http://www.davidbreyer.com .NET Programming, Technology, and Hobbies Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:55:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Eric Henn Murals Originally uploaded by eberry. Photos of a new mural in downtown Middletown, Ohio. The city has a number of murals done by a local artist, Eric Henn. Middletown is located north of Cincinnati, Ohio and is home ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/10/29/eric-henn-murals/ The Enquirer has their voter guide on the website. Enter your address to find local elections, candidates, and issues. When you enter your information, the site will generate a sample ballot that let's you compare candidates. This is especially useful for local elections where campaign advertising ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/10/29/cincinnati-voter-guide/ MSDN has an article on using .NET to connect to blogs, either to read or to post articles. The example shows how to create an Outlook add-in to read RSS feeds. This is for the next version of .NET, so it requires Visual Studio 2005. My.Blogs is a collection ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/10/03/connecting-to-blogs-with-net/ I got a chance to attend the SQL Server 2005 Roadshow when it visited Cincinnati this week. They had 9 presentations, 3 each for administration, programming, and business intelligence. In case you missed it, the presentation slides are available for download. SQLServerBible.com has links to SQL Server 2005 ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/09/24/sql-server-2005-roadshow/ What is Tasktime?  It is software that will allow you to track time spent on a given task.  It sits idlely in the taskbar.  The data is stored in XML format so you can import it into any data source or use the existing XSLT file to get a basic ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/09/22/tasktime-30/ Notepad++ - Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. Paint.NET 2.0 - image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003. eMule - one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/09/11/the-next-10-open-source-programs-you-should-have/ I have been promising for a while to podcast some of the other OTR dramas that I have. Now that I got the Superman podcast automated I am ready to do another. As some of you may have seen I didn't always keep up with the uploading of ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/09/11/nero-wolfe-radio-mysterydrama-podcast/ I have been using the Griffin iTrip to listen to my iPod in the car since February. I never did like the fact you had to program the iTrip with the frequency using the iPod interface. On several occasions the iTrip would "forget" what frequency to use ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/09/10/new-itrip-is-a-trip/ I think Derek and I are in competition on our August spending spree. I have been wanting to buy an SLR camera for quite sometime. So I was pleased when Dell had a sale on the Canon Rebel XT 350D for just $739. I snapped a few photos ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/08/25/new-camera/ Today Google released Google Talk or GTalk for short. On the surface it would appear the it is another "me too" IM service without any significant features. In fact there are no interesting features to speak of, every one of it's functions is already emulated better in ... http://www.davidbreyer.com/2005/08/24/why-google-talk-matters/