Archive for May, 2006

Was WS-* a Failure?

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Dare excerpts Yaron Goland, explaining how MSN uses POX instead of WS-* in many cases. It is very good to see MSFT employees no longer afraid to say that WS-* is sometimes not the right choice.

On the other hand, it’s reasonable to say that WS-* met most of its objectives; and IMO has been […]

Fear the Government

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Front page news today, the NSA is collecting information on phone calls.

Funny, it wasn’t frontpage news for the past couple of years, when that stalker down the street could buy your phone records on the Internet for $70 (yes, yours). And the article seems to completely ignore the fact that the information is there […]

Blog Popularity Contest

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

I’ve thought about the recent public spat between Dare and Al, and feel a need to weigh in.

First, I respect Al a lot. He helped build IEBlog into the most-read blog at Microsoft, and shares my fascination with Golden Dawn (and random other) arcana. And I think I understand how he feels. […]

Closet RDF

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Somehow I missed this from Sam Ruby, during the chaos planning for MIX06. Sam gets the attention of “Mr. Safe”, and then proceeds to scare the living crap out of him.

The real gem, though, is when Sam explains to Mr. Safe that “Joshua Allen secretly favors RSS 1.0″. Well, no comment — but […]

Kennedy and Ambien

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Did anyone else notice this? Painkillers had nothing to do with Kennedy’s accident; so why act as if he’ll fix everything by going to rehab for painkiller addiction? I think his internal logic goes like this: “Stupid fool; I should have given the car keys to the housekeeper before I took Ambien! […]