Uh oh.. so I’m up at 5am because it’s 8am at home and I can’t sleep, so I figured I’d go over what sessions to attend today. Unfortunately the session list requires me to log in, and their Passport integration seems to be broken: “The Microsoft Passport Network is unavailable from this site”. Hope this […]
Made it to LA. Found the hotel, found the convention center, got my badge. I had one near disaster, that created some inconvenience on the way here. One of the last things I did with the laptop was compress a lot of files on the C: drive. I basically right-clicked drive C, selected Compress, and […]
I scheduled this entry to appear at the moment my plane takes off for the PDC. I have to be at the airport before 6am, which will be 3am relative to the time I’ll be going to bed tomorrow night. Going to be a long day. I’ve never been able to sleep on airplanes, so […]
I’m listed on the PDC Bloggers site so maybe someone there will see this… I want to bring my Vonage adapter and plug in a POTS phone into it in the hotel room. I’m wondering if VoIP will work over whatever Internet access the hotel gives you. Anyone there reading this who can say?
I finished importing all my old entries from Community Server. My Java skill has increased slightly. All is well. Except that the formatting is hosed in a lot of my old posts…
The Java framework feels like a low level .NET framework. .NET has a lot of convenience functions that make doing common things easy, and the more I work with Java, the more I yearn for that. Today’s example: I want to load some XML and extract some text from a node. .NET code: XmlDocument doc […]
A lot of people have been pointing to this picture as evidence that the mayor is responsible for there still being people in New Orleans, and thus somehow exonerating the federal government: Here’s my problem with that. First, a lot of the people who stayed simply didn’t want to leave. Even today, people don’t want […]
So back to my trying to post all my old blog entries. It’s important that they come over with the dates intact. The MetaWeblogAPI uses a hashtable of RSS keys to describe the blog entry, so the obvious way to do it would be to have the pubDate RSS item as one of the keys, […]
I’m reading Clayton Christensen’s book, The Innovator’s Dilemma (in Reader – I bought the eBook), and it’s an interesting read. It looks at the history of the hard drive market in incredible detail, and tries to determine why so many companies have come and gone in the hard drive market over the last 30 years. […]
So I believe I mentioned I’m going to the PDC. It’s only a week away. I’m very much looking forward to it. It’s also going to be nice spending a few extra days in Los Angeles.