Archive for September, 2003

Akamai or Backdoor?

Monday, September 29th, 2003

Recently my brother contacted me via IM to ask about some strange network behavior on his machine. He was using sysinternals tcpview, and noticed that svchost.exe was opening connections to two IP addresses; one on 80.66.x.x subnet, and another somewhere beneath a different 80.x.x.x subnet. He was concerned because the IP addresses in question showed […]

Binary XML

Friday, September 26th, 2003

Miguel comments on the “Binary XML” postings from Omri and Dare, pointing out that only two standards would probably be needed (one for size, one for speed) to cover the majority of scenarios. I think this is correct, but in my opinion it’s not the number of encodings that is a problem, but simply the […]

Fair and Balanced?

Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

Bill Gates recently got together with Steve Mills from IBM and demonstrated some web services interoperability between our two companies’ products. It has taken awhile to get to this point, from the initial hype to the point where some of these key scenarios work without smoke and mirrors; so it is nice to see a […]

Update on List of MSFT Bloggers

Friday, September 19th, 2003

Stylesheet has been updated, and the OPML now imports into NewsGator, RSS Bandit, Radio Userland, andprobablyany other aggregator without trouble. I have also added a link to the list in FOAF (RDF) format on the left. Thanks to Leigh Dodds and Dan Brickleyfor hooking me up with the appropriate XSLT. Now that I have a […]

America Pop

Thursday, September 18th, 2003

One of my friends in college was a Japanese guy, here in the U.S. getting his master’s degree in “American Pop Culture”. He had a degree in marketing, andworked for a Japanese marketing agency, and he was taking a break from his work to develop some expertise that would help him more effectively target the […]