Hi, I'm Scott Galloway.

Firefox rules - no, not the dodgy Clint Eastwood movie!

Been playing with Mozilla Firefox - gotta say, it really is fantastic! MUCH faster than IE at loading pages, more standards compliant, skinning, better privacy settings...basically what IE should be (and would be if MS had any competition in that space IMHO).…

New version of BlogJet - now with HTML Source Editing!

From Jon Galloway's blog, a new version of BlogJet - with a bunch of new features including, finally, HTML Source editing - this is fantastic news! New BlogJet! Well, it's beta, but I'll take it - it adds HTML source code editor!Download it Release…

MonoDevelop - SharpDevelop on Linux w/ Mono

Just found out about this, MonoDevelop is a port of SharpDevelop to Linux using Mono (more news) it actually looks pretty good, I am really going to have to try this out - I'm all for MS but some clients just won't consider using MS products, being able to…

ASP.NET Style Webforms for Classic ASP

Via Leon Jollans (on the MSWebdev list) - a really neat way to do ASP.NET like stuff in classic ASP...

Taking the leap...

I'm ALMOST decided that I'm going to move from full-time to contracting / free-lance work. Got my 'Start your own business' book, and am reworking my CV to be more suitable for this type of role...all I have to do now is actually get up the nerve to pack in my…

Excellent post on testing practices...I really wish there was an easier way to integrate 'Watson' into all applications...

Chris Pratley posted this lovely long post on bugs and testing, he also covers some stuff about 'Watson' that little dialog which pops up when an application crashes inside Windows XP, very interesting stuff...I just wish an application block were avaialble…

Oh dear..."Janet Jackson and the Publicity machine"...

Pretty sad really, why didn't they just accept it was planned...anyway, this article has the best pictures and the full story...(warning, contains picture of Justin Timberlake looking 'concerned' - not for the faint hearted)

Geek hero...someone actually called their child Version 2.0!

I just love this...especially as I'm currently going for me V1.1 (wonder if I should use that title :-))...

Consultancy in the UK...

Theoretically :-) if I wanted to become a consultant in the UK - how would I go about it, where would I find contracts? Does anyone know if it's possible to do this and still live in Scotland?

Security through Diversity - why I don't like ValidateRequest

I'm aware this is a fairly controversial viewpoint, I should explain some of my own background as a precursor to my dislike of this. In the bad old days, I was a penetration tester; I ran my own little company which provided this service to a number of…