I must follow, if I can

Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way

  • The Road Goes Ever On…

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on August 14, 2012

    One of the rules of blogging is that you have to do it on a regular basis to keep your readers interested. Unfortunately this is not always possible. Sometimes things can happen in life that either require all your attention or drain you of the ideas or creative energy you... [Read More]
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  • Love what you do and make the world go ’round

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on August 3, 2012

    I have so much appreciation for stakeholders who appreciate what I give to them. You’d think this would be a more common occurrence: people who pay others for awesome things they want, people who make awesome things that their clients want them to make, and people who like the awesome... [Read More]
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  • Go, live your dream/Your dream stinks

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 28, 2012

    I spent the last month and a half working at the least fun job I’ve ever worked at—and I’ve had some doozies. I swear my head suffered more graying and balding in the last 6 weeks than all the years previous, and I was breaking out all over from the... [Read More]
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  • The Dabbling Imagination

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 17, 2012

    I seem to have a better outlook on life when I am allowed to apply for other jobs. Whether those jobs pan out doesn’t seem to matter as much as you’d think; somehow the benefits that the realm of possibilities brings to my imagination seem to outweigh the pain of... [Read More]
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  • Visual Studio in the Cloud

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 9, 2012

    So, I have a couple of pending offers for side gigs lingering out there, and theoretically on any given weekend evening, someone could IM me and ask me to do a few small things for them. The problem is, I don’t have a suitable Windows dev environment at home. I’ve... [Read More]
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  • Abbreviations Considered Harmful

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 7, 2012

    I recently struggled for several hours over a sorted ASP.NET GridView control which was failing to behave properly. I found that on PostBack for the LinkButtons, the SortCommand was returning expressions such as “LocationDesc” and “PositionDesc”. I was confused as to why the sort direction was attached to the expression... [Read More]
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  • On Phoning It In

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 20, 2012

    I work in office that has remote locations on the other side of the country, so people literally have to phone it in sometimes. Even some of the local employees only come to the office three or four days a week and so they’re also phoning it in sometimes. But... [Read More]
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  • Beastie Boys Minus One

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on May 4, 2012

    Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys has passed away at the age of only 48, after spending the last few years battling cancer. I’ll have this playlist on repeat for the next few days. http://open.spotify.com/user/1217402077/playlist/4IMStcBmcEaHTAYJZczCSy