June 2007 Entries

  • I'm leaving on a jet airliner

    I was booking a flight today, so this seemed even more appropriate. Lovely example of data visualization as art. Oh, and there is the original also for resolution fans. (via Stranger Fruit via Pharyngula)

  • Placeholder

    Just a placeholder, you can ignore this. I finally unsubscribed from the main feed at blogs.msdn.com. There was just too much noise. So I will now add feeds as appropriate from said MSDN Blogs. This is here so that I'll be able to compare my old subscription trends with my new ones, in about a month's time. From your 190 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 21,545 items, starred 131 items, and shared 2 items.

  • The reports of Microsoft's death are greatly exaggerated

    A few weeks back, there was a bit of discussion on the "Death of Microsoft". More recently, none other than the mighty Martin Fowler seemed to imply that perhaps if it isn't dead, then perhaps just sleeping. Well, if anyone felt that way, after the responses to that post have started echoing, along comes "the TestDriven.net event." The volume, not to mention the acrymony, of the response has shown me (at least), that people care about .NET and what happens in its space. I keep myself in cat food -- like many of you -- by programming on Microsoft tools for...