Well, first things first. It looks like my 1^st Extreme XML column is out. Which is cool except for the fact that I think my face is too dark on my picture on the columns page. Plus they picked the pic where they made me do the goofy cross-your-hands-and-form-an-X pose.

Poll: Favorite Liquor?

 

 

A diary in which I ask 5 random questions that have occured to me over the past 24 hours. Feel free to answer any, all or none of them.

 

 

After watching Attack of the Clones yesterday, something clicked that had been bothering me for over a decade about Return of the Jedi. I have a pet theory that some disagree with that puts some of the more irritating aspects of Return of the Jedi in perspective.

SPOILERS BELOW!!! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN STAR WARS:EPISODE 2

 

 

X-Box Prices Drop To My Price Range.

 

 

The most significant happening over the past week was an interesting sexual proposition that was made to me last night in a downtown Seattle nightclub.

More details below including happenstances around my 1st MSDN column, some ragging on elitist programmers with weblogs, a surprise liking for a particular boyband, a weird rest room exchange, a rather insightful K5 post, and an amusing link of the day.

More below:

Poll: Would You Have Gone Home With Them?

 

 

While browsing Sam Ruby's blog I decided to click on his "related" side bar and came across Keith Ballinger's blog in where he mentions he made a mistake which was corrected by Simon Fell. The mistake was that Keith mentions that one can tell the type of an XML document by looking at the default namespace. Simon's correction was that one can tell the type of an XML document by looking at the QName of the root element. Simon's correction is misleading on at least two levels.

 

 

I am loved, hated, and boughetto

 

 

Looks like my days of living high on the hog with my own office have come screeching to a halt. Now some of the Hailstorm team merged with us we no longer have the luxury everyone on the team having offices. Since office allocation is based on seniority (number of years at MSFT not rank/level per se) then it looks like I'm high on the list of people who'll have to share an office.

FUCK!!!

 

 

I have an idea for an article about the telling difference between User Error and Bad Design in software. Anyone think the article is worth writing?

 

 

I just noticed the following bug in Google. Do a search for xml database, then do one for xml and database. Notice a difference?

The only reason I consider it a bug is that Google has the following message under the results for the second query

The "AND" operator is unnecessary -- we include all search terms by default

as well as the text here which implies the word "and" is ignored.