Sad, but true.  I am going to do time.  I have pleaded my case, but it was no use.  Authorities are coming to arrest me on March 24th.  During my incarceration, I will be separated from my family, and I will have no access to a computer.  Worst of all, I discovered that someone I know has turned me in.  I am not quite sure who it was yet.  They are under witness protection, but I am definitely going to find out.   

It's all for a good cause.  My work is particpating in the Muscular Dystrophy Association's 2009 Lock Up, so I am getting thrown in the slammer and trying to raise money for MDA as my bail bond.  If you have a soft spot for the work that MDA is doing and want to contribute, any contributions (even small ones) will be greatly appreciated.  It's pretty easy.  You can donate online at the following web-site:

https://www.joinmda.org/MyLockup/MyHomepage/tabid/50090/Participant/marvinpalmer/Default.aspx

I have been a customer of GoDaddy's for awhile now, and at this point, I have gotten pretty comfortable with their tools to manage my websites and databases.  I forget sometimes that it was VERY painful for me in the beginning.  I suppose I repressed the memory of how frustrated I was when I got my first ASP.NET website built and everything worked great locally only to fail miserably when uploaded to GoDaddy.  Things like how to get my site published, get my database up and running, connect my published pages to my remote database, etc - these were all tricky for me to figure out the first time.  So, I am going to put together some articles on the basic stuff that you have to know to be able to get your data-driven ASP.NET website up and running using MySQL on GoDaddy.  This article will cover setting up a MySql database on GoDaddy. It will be the first in a series that I will put in the category "GoDaddy Basics". More...