Seeing as this is Beat M*ch*gan Week here in Buckeye Country, I thought that I'd share a little (and probably very obscure) bit of the history of this great rivalry. Well, its at least a possible explanation for the great animosity between O-H...I-O, and Meeeshagun.The Michigan game. Just mention this in Columbus and you can see emotions stir and blood pressures rise.But why is the Ohio/Michigan rivalry one of the most intense and most well-known rivalries in the country? The Michigan vs. Ohio saga may have started in 1803.The Toledo War.The Rotary Club of Toledo is the largest club...

So, I'm at work today typing out an email to an internal environment support technician -- something about getting my VOIP phone setup correctly or something -- and I had the following phrase:...I called the helpdesk, and they of course had no idea what I was talking about...Now, our email client at work (Lotus Notes) tries to spellcheck every email before it sends in an attempt to catch/correct the most glaring mistakes. I'm all for this because if you've spent much time reading my posts, you'd realize I have horrible grammar skillz. But, I digress... So I...

I just read an interesting article by Shaun Walker, of DotNetNuke fame, in which he talks about Open Source software written for the Windows platform and the lack of respect it gets in the Open Source community.  FTFA: "It's hard being an open source project on the Microsoft platform. Because no matter how hard you try to exemplify true open source ideals, you will not get any respect from the non-Microsoft community."Shaun also gives the Open Source Definition's (OSD) 10 Commandments defining the values that the Open Source Initiative was founded on. Yet, even though DNN and other OSS projects for Windows (like subText) adhere...

So, I've blogged before about how I'm now working with the subText Project and how we've been doing a lot of work under the hood in preparation for the version 1.0 release, and how one of the things that I've been working on is an Upgrade framework. We've recently decided that we need to refactor/redesign the Import process we originally had in mind, and now we're playing with two different approaches. One approach is to implement BlogML in subText. The other is to use the Provider Model to leverage an existing blog engine's (i.e.- dotText, dasBlog, etc...) and subText's built-in...