1. Decide on a topic for my dissertation
2. Read more, both novels & non-fiction
3. Learn Latex
4. Do some Unix programming
5. Make some money

I was a bit surprised that getting Paging & sorting to work with ASP.NET’s GridView is not automatic.. but this tutorial is perfect, I just copied the code and it worked first time.
Great!

http://ryanolshan.com/technology/gridview-without-datasourcecontrol-datasource/