Friday, March 12, 2004 - Posts
Taken out tonight: Killing my TV.
The counts: Blogging: 8; Development: 10; Other: 16; SQL: 3; WILY: 8
Line du jour: He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
Post du jour: Of ship dates, realistic expectations and hope for the future
Oh my. This is so not what you'd expect. You won't mistake this for Sierra Nevada Bigfoot, but you get as hammered on it either.
While this is called a Barley Wine style, you'll be disappointed if you head into this expecting it be a classical Barley Wine. But if you just drink it for what it is, its great fun. There's no doubt its malt and has a good dose of alcohol. What its lacking is an overload of hops. Pours brown like weak coffee with no head at all. Initially very cloudy that quickly settles down into a jewel like clarity. Strong malt taste with rich, thick mouthfeel. Big alcohol notes. Very fruity. Drink this one slowly and enjoy it. Try to limit yourself to one or two a night though.
I'd give it a 90 out of 100.
Just a virtual sticky note about the stuff I need to get going on. If you have any ideas on these topics. please leave a comment.
- March: Item for Brett Hill's IIS Answers newsletter.
- April: InfoTech speech.
- April: XML eye part II
- May: dotnetsig presentation?
- May: XML eye part III
- May: Toastmasters speech #1
- June: XML eye part IV
- September: NUFW presentation?
- Real Soon now: Yukon "For XML" and XQuery for Morts.
- Sooner: EncryptedText in Yukon
- Sooner: Exploring the RS meta data database
- Sooner: VS.NET as the tool-of-choice for RS
- Sooner: Facade patterns applied to RS
- Later: Using Web Services with RS via a Custom Data Provider
- Later: Using Custom assemblies in RS
- Later: Eventing in RS
- Eventually: RSS feeds for FunWith.NET
I have dreams that Peter and Bill's RS Book will address many of my "later" tasks. Can't wait for it to release (click image for Amazon.)
It is a little after 01:00 and I’ve just spent the better part of my emotional energy writing tonight’s Take Outs. Despite the late hour for this old man and the lack of any creative fire in my soul at the moment, there’s just no way I will be able to sleep until I get this off my mind. I’m on a mission now.