03.31ThirtyThirty
Checking into ThirtyThirty tonight. You have to love these venerable old structures. I solemnly promise to never again stay in an NYC Marriott, Hyatt or Hilton, so help me god.
03.29Hypnagogic morning
It has been three weeks since I returned from the MIX08 trip where I had the misfortune of acquiring the most malicious flu bug ever. Still fighting the aftereffects, I take every opportunity to sleep in on weekends. Somewhere toward the 10th hour of heavenly sleep this morning I experienced a richly rendered virtual-reality-like hypnagogic experience.
Generally […]
03.20Silverlight
I’m going to be embedding Silverlight content in this journal from time to time. You may need to install/update a Silverlight plugin to view…
03.11Zune as foolscap
My Zune has become, in no small way, my pre-Singularity foolscap. Through it, I am enjoying a personal renaissance in my thirst for diverse learning. Many (esp. my sons) would think it strange that I rarely use my Zune for music. I’m sure I would if I had more music listening time in my day. What […]
03.06MIX08 - Thursday
9:55am — Attended Rob Relyea’s “What’s new in WPF 3.5″ presentation and as expected he talked (and demoed) a lot about the coming “Servicing Release.” Some really excellent questions followed. Rob took a lot of notes, promising followups on his blog. Had a very interesting conversation with Vincent Dumas, Director of Software Development at Xceed […]
03.06MIX08 - Wednesday
Very big day at MIX.
Lots of announcements:
- Silverlight 2 beta 1. Wow! Especially the mult-res image delivery! (Deep Zoom)
- IE8: ‘do the right thing’ (IE7 Emulation is turned OFF by default). MS gets it! Two new very cool features: Activities and Web Slices
- WPF 3.5 SP1 is coming! postpone any serious datagrid work (inside scoop).
-TAO […]
03.04MIX08 - Tuesday
1:55pm – Settled into a rediculously posh suite at the Venetian. Off to find some good food prior to 4pm Registration, then 9pm BlogZone.
10:00pm — The Sandbox WPF labs were broken. Will try back tomorrow. Never made it to BlogZone.
Happend upon an O’reilly book release party for their Silverlight 2.0 title. It was a nice […]
Just returned from the annual GIS/CAMA Conference in New Orleans where I was a speaker and my company, CCI, was an exhibitor. CCI launched what is now the industry’s most advanced Computer Aided Mass Assesment (CAMA) solution, RealWare V5, which I first alluded to last December. It’s my first time at this conference and this […]
Two day’s back, it happened. Some years it’s mearly a casual breakup of lazy floating ice islands; other years it is a seismic event creating a fantastic multimedia show (and a wild ride, if you dare). This year, Long Pond’s annual ice peel was somewhere in the middle.