Just because I'm on vaction, don't mean I'm out to lunch.

I'm not teaching this week so I thought I'd take some exams.  First on the list: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components.  Holy jeez that was a beast.  All kinds of questions on remoting and a bunch that are along the lines of: You build version 1.0.0.0 of your component against version 1.2.0.0 of some .dll.  Later on, someone puts that .dll in the GAC.  Then, someone create a version 1.1.0.0 version and creates a publisher policy in the GAC.  Then you rebuild your app.  What happens? 

And those were the easy ones.  Oh well, I passed and now it is time to take the Windows exam.  I have Mike Gunderloy's exam prep book (full review coming...) so that should help me through some stuff I normally don't do on the windows side of things (globalization, accessability type stuff).  If it wasn't for Joe Milionaire being on tonight I would probably try to knock out that exam tomorrow morning.  As it stands, I have a theory that might hurt exam prep tonight: You can never be too drunk while watching Joe Milionaire. 

Oh, this exam makes me an MCAD.  So right now I'm an MCT, MCSD for VB6, MCAD for Microsoft .NET.  By wednesday I hope to have MCSD for Microsoft .NET, and by friday perhaps I'll be ready for the Win2k Server exam so I can get my MCDBA. 

All this with a cold.  But as Terry Tate eloquently put it: I don't got time for pain, the only pain I got time for is for fools that don't know what time is.

Btw, this machine I'm on right now I can actually type out whole sentances before they appear on the screen.  WTF?  So please, excuse any spelling or grammatical mistakes.  And in the future, when you see spelling and grammatical mistakes assume that I'm using a machine that struggles on processing keystrokes and it is not due to my third grade reading level.  I'm babbling again.