Taken out today: Medication Warning Labels
The counts: Blogging: 10; Development: 2; Other: 9; SQL: 1;
WILY: 1
Line of the day: Yeah, you know, there really aren't enough
Microsoft “parties” out there. Unless you include stuff like the MVP Summit,
TechEd, TechFest, The PDC, DevDays, VSLive!, TechMentor and the entire gamut of
MS sponsored bar fests that go year round. But yeah, we need more parties, I'm
getting way too much work done and working way too many billable hours. Shame
on me not being more of a community-oriented, err..I mean..party guy.
Post of the day:
Customer demand for a ubiquitous InfoPath runtime
Take Outs: I read blogs so you don't have too.
In response to: I take my phone into the bathroom with me, to play snake while I shit, and end up only playing snake
- What time do you get up? Before I want to.
- If you could eat lunch with one person, who would it be? Warren Buffet or Ted Kooser
- Gold or silver? Gold
- What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Bad Santa
- What is your favorite TV show? Good Eats
- What did you have for breakfast? Peanut butter cookie and coffee
- Who would you hate to be stuck in a room with? Scott McNealy.
- What/who inspires you? Opportunity, music and Zen.
- What is your middle name? Lee
- Beach, City or Country? Country
- Favorite ice cream? Ben and Jerry's Half-Baked
- Butter, plain or salted popcorn? Wasabi spiked Ume Shiso
- Favorite color? Black
- What kind of car do you drive? Toyota Echo
- Favorite sandwich? Smoked Duck with Smoked Swiss
- What characteristic do you despise? Apathy
- If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Australia
- What color is your bathroom? White
- Favorite brand of clothing? Old Chicago Mini-tour t-shirts or Thinkgeekware.
- Where would you retire? Wisconsin
- Favorite day of the week? Friday
- What did you do for your last birthday? Went to Kansas City
- Where were you born? Nebraska
- Favorite sport to watch? Professional football.
- What fabric detergent do you use? Tide.
- Coke or Pepsi? Doctor Pepper if I must.
- Are you a morning person or a night owl? Neither!
- What is your shoe size? 13
- Do you have any pets? Not currently :(
Like a good like drone, I visited MSDN's channel 9. I'm not going to let my first impression -- which frankly wasn't all that favorable -- be my only impression of it.
What I liked:
- That they made the effort. Kudos for opening up.
- Doctrine points #3, #6 and #8 and #9. Very sage.
- That it has a lot of potential.
- That it has different types of channels (Moblog, threaded discussions and Wikis) that appeal to different segments.
- RSS feeds.
What I didn't like
- Top prority: One page, please, listing of all the enabled RSS Feeds. Don't make me hunt for them.
- ActiveX controls? Are you kidding me? Who on earth has ActiveX enabled in the Internet Zone? Thumbnail the video with a link to a player Window, please.
- What message does not using or integrating with Passport send?
- Great if your a developer or on the developer tools teams. What about the IT professional? When does Microsoft open up that channel?
- Doesn't seem like RSS Bandit's broswer very much.
- The different channels don't feel very well integrated. Feels like a mismash.
- Avatar? Avatar? Oh man, that's so 20th century.
I'll read the feeds, for now, and check-in periodically to see how the site progresses. Today it feels more like base hit than a home run to me. But then, that's consistent with Doctrine #6.