I'm in Seattle this week for technical preview of the next version of Microsoft's web server, IIS7. As usual, they're not committing to any release date but say it'll be about a year or so before it's available. So far, I haven't been really impressed by it. It seems their biggest objective for the release is to make it as flexible and extensible as possible - and I'd say they've accomplished that. They have also provided mechanisms that allow you to integrate managed code (i.e. code running in the .NET CLR) into the HTTP pipeline of IIS, so I guess that's kind of neato too. I still have a couple of more days to see what else they've got planned, but I'm pretty bored by the whole thing.
Seattle is a nice city, but I haven't seen the sun in 3 days. I guess that's typical. Tonight, we went to a bar near our hotel to get a beer and some food. I kept smelling something awful and couldn't quite figure out what it was. Eventually, it turned out to be our waitress. She had the worst BO ever. Pretty gross. The beer was good though.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Sub-standard
I just had lunch from Subway. Why is it that Quiznos toasted subs are good, but Subway toasted subs suck? It's an age-old question (months old to be sure).
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Cars
I have two car-related things to discuss tonight.
The first is regarding the cool new Audi A3. This car has been available in Europe for some time now, but they are bringing it to the North American market. One of the coolest features that this car has is that it has 2 Secure Digital (SD) card readers built into the stereo system. This allows you to copy your MP3s to your SD card(s) and listen in your car... no need for messy cables to hook up your MP3 player, or burning to CD.
The other car discussion really stinks - literally. I think something crawled into my Mazda 3's engine area, or under the body somewhere - and then it died. There is a stench of something dead emanating from under my car. Originally, I assumed that Ewan had spilled some milk somewhere and I could not find it. I knew this wasn't the case when I continued to smell it when I was outside the car. I'm not sure what to do about this. I have looked everywhere under the hood and under the body, but with newer cars such as mine, there is not much to see unless you remove a bunch of plates and panels. I guess I will just have to wait for this thing to dry up and stop being smelly. Gross.
The first is regarding the cool new Audi A3. This car has been available in Europe for some time now, but they are bringing it to the North American market. One of the coolest features that this car has is that it has 2 Secure Digital (SD) card readers built into the stereo system. This allows you to copy your MP3s to your SD card(s) and listen in your car... no need for messy cables to hook up your MP3 player, or burning to CD.
The other car discussion really stinks - literally. I think something crawled into my Mazda 3's engine area, or under the body somewhere - and then it died. There is a stench of something dead emanating from under my car. Originally, I assumed that Ewan had spilled some milk somewhere and I could not find it. I knew this wasn't the case when I continued to smell it when I was outside the car. I'm not sure what to do about this. I have looked everywhere under the hood and under the body, but with newer cars such as mine, there is not much to see unless you remove a bunch of plates and panels. I guess I will just have to wait for this thing to dry up and stop being smelly. Gross.
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