john spurlock 2008

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silverlight 2 textbox control template ignores the borderthickness and borderbrush properties!MSDN Silverlightmsdn.microsoft.com

use content-md5! "a single load balancer intermittently, under load, corrupted single bytes in the byte stream."AWS Developer Forums: S3 data corruption? ...forums.aws.amazon.com

woxyplaylist.com updated for this week. looks like woxy is starting to dig deeper into the new sigur ros.

"if you went around saying 'i'm not a light bulb guy' people would look at you like you're nuts."Tales of an IT Director: I'm a"light bulb" kinda guytales-of-an-it-director.blogspot.com

check out kevin's wpf bag-o-tricks if you are into wpf - you'll learn a thing or twoj832.com

taking a look at sproutcore. "cocoa for the web" should elicit the same reaction as "vb for the web"SproutCoresproutcore.com

updated woxyplaylist.com for this week - looks like the new notwist is getting some major spinnage

released spaceblock 0.0.1.13 (amazon s3 front-end): bucket availability check & user requested enhancementsCodePlex.SpaceBlock - Homespaceblock.codeplex.com

it's weird how pascal-cased xml markup looks wrong everywhere except visual studio's editor - my ms brainwashing must be complete

just updated my google maps + silverlight "boston zoom" demo to beta 2static.johnspurlock.com

confirmed: silverlight 2 beta 2 client-side http only supports get and post, no head, put, or delete

and... it doesn't look like they've changed direction on client-side http in silverlight beta 2. lame.What’s new in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? – Silverlight and Windows Phone SDKblogs.msdn.microsoft.com

"instances unavailable: we're currently experiencing severe weather near one of our amazon web services locations"AWS Service Health Dashboard - Dec 29, 2016 PSTstatus.aws.amazon.com

"improved cross domain support" - that sounds promisingDan Wahlin - New Features in Silverlight 2 Beta 2weblogs.asp.net

silverlight 2 beta 2 out this week. i wonder if they'll make any changes to client-side http...MSDN Silverlightmsdn.microsoft.com

considering picking up the 16gb usb stick mentioned in the article from @codinghorrorAmazon.com: OCZ Rally2 Dual Channel 16 GB Flash USB 2.0 Flash Drive OCZUSBR2DC-16GB: Electronicsamazon.com

using wcf message streaming xfer + ienumerable to enable a "yield return" all the way from the backend db -> wcf -> client. cool ...

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If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don’t bother. Nowadays the idea of giving a name to every file on your computer is ridiculous.

converting last remaining pgpdisks into truecrypt volumes...

interesting that the rinjdaelmanaged (.net 2.0) and aesmanaged (.net 3.5) are not considered fips compliant, why?New Crypto Algorithms in Orcas – .NET Security Blogblogs.msdn.microsoft.com

rereading tufte - never gets oldEdward Tufte: Books - The Visual Display of Quantitative Informationedwardtufte.com

just posted this yr's @woxy modern rock 500 towoxyplaylist.com

scariest gillmor gang ever. too bad microsoft is playing checkers and google is playing chess.tinyurl.com

why does "limit x" (mysql & postgresql) seem so much more intuitive to me than "top x" (sql server)? shouldn't be a big deal but it is...

the @woxy modern rock 500 is nearing the home stretch - nothing but classics from here on intinyurl.com

ha Skype Qik is moving - Skype Blogsblogs.skype.com streaming from @MarsPhoenix control room live - way better than official nasa feed

first pics from the @MarsPhoenix /not/ projected from a windows pc - shocking

released spaceblock 0.0.1.12 (amazon s3 front-end): new "default transfer acl" feature (user request)CodePlex.SpaceBlock - Homespaceblock.codeplex.com