Better Living Through Software

This is a sample of doing streamed template processing to perform Data Binding in Silverlight.  I had to edit out the description, since MS Word + WordPress was generating invalid XML (how hard can it be?) which was causing feed validation errors. The full template processor, with the MiniCache and PullMePushYou helpers, is less than …

This morning, my wife woke me up to tell me that some woman was talking out of my computer, about “you f-ing the girl next door” uncensored. When I went down to check it out, I found that my computer was playing the full version of Lily Allen’s “Smile”. While it was a relief to …

I clicked on this ad without being fully conscious of making the decision. When I realized what I had done, I paused to think through the semi-conscious motivations that would make me click on something that had absolutely no interest to me (I have no interest in sports, scoreboards, champions, or “certified for”). The ad …

Sitting in a DPE’s “blogger’s lunch” right now, and Jesse mentioned the lovely design behind IsParisInJailRightNow.com. Reminds me of the Kool Keith song, “Girls in Jail“.

A couple of weeks ago, my team was hanging out at The Tasting Room for lunch, and I was complaining about how my patch of timber bamboo was wiped out completely by the windstorms last year. Only one lone culm survived the winds, and since new growth gets nutrients from the previous year’s culms, I …