Here's a quick tip... If you are having trouble with your Xbox360 wireless adapter getting a good signal, you can extend the adapter with a regular 'ol USB cable. I used a 6 foot USB extension cable and extended my Xbox360 wireless adapter a few feet closer to my wireless router. The signal improved dramatically.

Now I do not have a bad network connection as an excuse for my many horrible online deaths in COD4 and Halo 3.

Recently I found myself trying to load an old .NET 1.1 application onto a virtual machine that I had just set up. I ran into problems getting the application to load. This was because I had installed MS Server 2003 as the operating system on my virtual machine. Server 2003 comes with IIS 6.0 and is set up for .NET 2.0 applications. 

The .NET 1.1 framework is disabled in IIS 6.0 by default. Because who needs .NET 1.1 anymore, right? Well I did... And you may be surprised at how many legacy .NET 1.1 apps are still out there.

It turns out that it is fairly simple to get .NET 1.1 working with IIS 6. You can enable this either by using the Configure Your Server wizard or you can manually enable it through Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel. This article deals with manually getting the .NET 1.1 framework working with IIS 6.

I was playing Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360 tonight and there was this young person on my team who sounded to be in his early teens. As soon as the game started this (obviously white American) kid developed a severe case of racial tourettes. I could not believe the language spewing out of this kid's mouth...

Have you ever wondered what the numbers on the bottom of bank checks in the U.S. mean? I noticed these numbers before but had never paid much attention to them until recently. They actually mean something...