Cringely cringe inducing most recent column on obfuscation and .NET is one of those so utterly ignorant pieces that typically spew forth from Cringely that convinces me that the article is written by a rotating gaggle of college sophomores working as interns at PBS.

Poll: What would you rank yourself out of 5 for a performance review?

I just wasted an hour trying to figure out why TomCat wasn't allowing me to connect to it on port 8080 via my domain name but would through localhost only for my machine to sieze up and when I powered off and back on, I no longer have freaking DNS.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGHHHH.

Poll: Who is the strongest one of all?

So browsing Slashdot today, I notice an article that states that Sun Microsystems has decided that its employees don't deserve cubicles. Reading the the actual story on Yahoo is rather disturbing because it mirrors a description of the bleak existence of being a cog in a wheel working for the "feds" after the collapse of the US government in Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash.

Poll: Best Way To Spend A Summer Day?

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.

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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.

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