Chris Garrett

You may recall I was having a little difficulty with my web host (http://weblogs.asp.net/cgarrett/archive/2004/04/10/110796.aspx), well they finally came through with my affiliate cash this morning via Paypal. They are back in my good books (they really are a good host and at $10 a month including asp.net 1.1 AND sql server the best value for money on the net). If I have any problems in future I think I should direct to the one guy there who seems to be able to make things happen (Erwin)!

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I was chatting to Plip who has just joined the aspalliance (at last!) and the subject of my GDI+ articles comes up. Plip thinks people "know" me for my ASP.NET graphics stuff on aspalliance and asptoday. There was also a book but sadly it was one of those big red ones with a photograph of a geek on the front :O( Now the only book with my GDI+ code in is the (brilliant) cookbook.

What do you do when a company lets you down on a promise? Do you just leave that service and defect to a competitor?, do you warn people not to use them? What about if the company that let you down was one that you had recommended to others?

Bit of a discussion going on over in my other blog - is it necessary to have a degree?

This guy makes a couple of good points which make the article worthwhile reading but what I took away was "when will we get even £1 a day rentals in the UK?". Please let it be soon :O)

.. "It depends" ;O)

BBC has reported about a spammer losing his porche as part of a court-settlement - ka-ching!!. About time these guys were brought to justice! :O) Only shame is that they are taken down after making an absolute fortune off the back of the millions of mugs they have gotten to buy their products :O(