A few months ago, Kenny and I were driving on Denny Way, and we saw a billboard for some energy drink that said, “You can sleep when you’re 30.” At that point, Kenny got very excited about his upcoming 30th birthday, thinking that he’d finally be able to get some well-deserved rest.
It’s been a little […]
Archive for January, 2006
A friend of mine sent this to me, and I don’t know why it’s so funny, but it just is: Top 100 Facts About Chuck Norris.
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. But your tears won’t cure cancer.
The Expression Interactive Designer (aka “Sparkle”) CTP is out! This is an interactive visual designer for WPF, written in WPF. And it’s hot.
Here are some goodies:
Expression Interactive Designer January 2006 CTP bits - make sure you also have the January 2006 CTP of WinFX first…
Video Feature Tours - 5 quick demos in 10 minutes, […]
I learned a new rule of navigation today: “You’re not in Redmond unless you’ve made at least three U-turns.”
So said my frustrated fiance who was looking for the Indian restaurant where we were meeting our friends for dinner. It’s all too true though. This is why we live in Seattle, not Redmond.
A few weeks ago, I was listening to the radio, and I heard the most amazing thing: Jenny Lewis, covering “Handle With Care” by the Traveling Wilburys, along with her friends Ben Gibbard, M. Ward, and Conor Oberst.
I spent a few moments wondering if Jenny et al had concocted that cover and arrangement just […]
The WinFX January CTP just made it to MSDN. Here are links to all the goods:
WinFX Runtime Components
Go-Live for WCF and WF
Windows SDK
Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas†Community Technology Preview - Development Tools for WinFX® (aka Fidalgo) (try saying that one three times fast)
VS Extensions for WorkFlow
WinFX January CTP Readme
Have fun.
And finally, if […]
The WinFX online SDK has a nifty little article that explains how to configure IIS to serve up WPF (aka Avalon) content. At the heart of this article is the fact that the following 5 extension-MIME type mappings need to be made:
Extension
MIME Type
.manifest
application/manifest
.xaml
application/xaml+xml
.application
application/x-ms-application
.xbap
application/x-ms-xbap
.deploy
application/octet-stream
The instructions in the article work like a charm if you’re (1) running […]
When I got back from South America, I learned that it had rained in Seattle every single day since I left (not a bad time to be out of town, eh?) And it continued raining all last week. By Friday, Governor Gregoire declared a state of emergency due to the flooding and road damage caused […]
I got back to Seattle yesterday, after three weeks of traveling in South America (capped by a couple of days in Miami). I’m glad to see that nothing has changed in our happy little city, especially the weather:
I was getting sick and tired of that damn sunshine anyway…
Volcan Osorno is one of the best-known sights in northern Patagonia. Innumerable travel guides and postcards feature photographs of the volcano behind the lake, taken from the waterfront in Puerto Varas. What most travel guides fail to mention is that Volcan Osorno is best viewed from afar.
Unfortunately Kenny and I did not read or hear […]
