Feb 27, 2007
My articulate girlfriend
“The frozen goober of ballpoint thing” Helen describing the obstruction at the end of a ballpoint pen that she was trying to remove by huffing hot air into the pen.
Aaron Brethorst (Page 101)
Elsewhere on the web
Feb 27, 2007
Meta
Paved with good intentions
I’ll admit it: I made a rookie mistake when I migrated this weblog over to WordPress. I had been neglecting my blog for over a month, but even so, FeedBurner reported that I had more subscribers to my blog than ever before. I spent the better part...
Feb 25, 2007
Developer Tools
Lightweight Development Experiences
Jeremy Jarrell raises some excellent points on his blog about the pain and suffering he goes through when trying to use Visual Studio for lightweight code editing and experimentation: [F]or just playing with scratch code while lying in bed at nigh...
Feb 25, 2007
UAC
Vista
Meet UAC - Embedding Manifests in Managed Apps
Over the past few blog posts, we’ve looked into what Virtualization and run levels are all about, and learned how to create a Fusion manifest that is appropriate for inclusion on Windows Vista. When we created that Fusion manifest for Windows Vist...
Feb 24, 2007
Leaving a bad relationship
I finally dumped MovableType. We had a long, sordid relationship that started all the way back in 2003. I used to think that I really liked it, and even loved it at one point. We broke up under less than optimal circumstances, and I thought that I...