Aaron Lerch

Check out Grand Central (the Service, not the Terminal). Recently purchased by Google (and only available in the US for now), Grand Central unifies all your phone numbers into a single number. Here’s how it works, in a nutshell. You select a local number anywhere in the continental United States. Then you enter all your […]

I saw this thing called inviteshare.com today (via Mike), which is apparently the way to get invited to the hottest and latest Web-2.0-social-networking-mashup-who-even-has-the-time sites. I was struck by just how many sites there are with ridiculous names who will connect you to your BFF, cure cancer, clothe the poor, and apparently they do all that […]

Here’s a post that will apply to exactly 0.3 people out there. But I think it’s a great story of how PowerShell came to the rescue for one of our customers.
A support request came in this morning for a customer who had accidentally deleted the source for one of their data sources. (Background: our client […]

A few days ago I signed up for Google Adsense and put a few ads on my blog. I figured there’s enough traffic coming in that maybe it’ll pay for the hosting fees and “break even”, which is all I wanted. But I had one problem - I hate ads.  Actually let me qualify that. […]

I just can’t pass up a free t-shirt, even when “free” is relative. It didn’t cost me any money–that’s free in my book. I’ve been known to head to Kohl’s and stock up on $3 t-shirts around the 4th of July.
So, here’s to Eric Sink for giving me a cheap-as-free shirt, thanks!

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I was going to post more on some neat tips that John Robbins showed us in a Mastering .NET Debugging class, but when I did some searching to see what was out there I came across Jim Gries’ helpful blog. He’s posted about pretty much every item I had on my list, so just subscribe […]

In the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley, Matt Damon plays Tom Ripley, “a young underachiever”. Ripley is gifted at improvisation and impersonation, but he takes an obsession too far.
Apparently our Visual Studio friend the “Go To Find Combo” (weird name, I know–from this point on I’m just going to call the dang thing the “Find” […]

Recently Roy Osherove mentioned that regardless of how much people love Google Reader he won’t use it, citing the lack of search functionality. Which is funny, really, because I mean it’s Google, for crying out loud. Why can’t I search my feeds?? I feel you, Roy. Of course, I still use it anyway, and here’s […]

Part of the recent Mastering .NET Debugging course I took covered setting up and using Microsoft’s Symbol Server technology - something that’s been around for a while, but yet many people don’t do it. While it’s incredibly useful to have a symbol server set up to contain operating system symbols (the LAN is faster than […]