From the article: "Knowing your money is going to a good cause can activate some of the same pleasure centers in your brain as food and sex, U.S. researchers said Thursday." http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/06/14/brain.altruism.reut/index.html brilliant.

Kimura sent us a nice write up about Giveness that he found on BusinessHackers.com, by Dario D'Onofrio.  It's a great article and I really enjoyed his commentary about soceity as a whole.  It's a very informative blog.      

Today is our 8th year wedding anniversary.   When I think back on the last 8 years, I can't help but think that either, somebody up there likes me a lot, or I must have done something really good at some point in my life or both.  I'm always the first to admit how lucky I am. Tonight is going to be a night out for a change.  Sarah-boo is coming over to babysit the kids and we'll be heading out for a nice relaxing dinner and whatever else we decide to do.  I can't wait.  

I found a nice little addition to the email capabilities inside of .NET 2.0 awhile back.  Microsoft reorganized a lot of the email functionality in their .NET 2.0 release.  In fact they even changed the Namespace that that you have to work with in order to send emails inside of ASP.NET.  It went from System.Web.Mail to System.Net.Mail, which makes sense because emails are really sent over a network as opposed to the web. One feature you have to consider when setting up an email distribution ...

It's been a long time since I worked with Flash (i.e. Actionscript), probably too long.  In the past couple weeks, I have spent a substantial amount of time relearning the platform.  I've forgotten how fun it can be and since it's been about 2 releases since I spent any real time using it, it's come a long way. I use to be quite comfortable working with Flash a few years ago but a lot has slipped my mind since then.  The fundamentals have been coming back quickly but I've been saying, "How did ...