@millenomi are you kidding me? have you seen how Twitter renders in IE *seven*? Not exactly a Pri 1 issue for the twitter folks, obviously

@blowdart shut your filthy pie hole, V for Vendetta was great. I actually liked it better than the comic, which I re-read afterwards

@shanselman you can see shows and sights, too. But yeah, subtract gambling (snore) and vegas is pretty shallow.

@hotdogsladies I wish they'd let Merlin Mann run the intarwebs

@carnage4life as a footnote PS! Is it Microsoft or Nigeria? This is a non-solution, it's giving up. I can't respect that. Your call tho.

@darrell the word is always "orange". I guess I could hook up an MP3 of that.

@carnage4life maybe the fact that you feel you *can't* provide context is symptomatic of the deeper problem. What's with the pseudo-secrecy?

@carnage4life I guess they have more context than A. Dash, M. Arrington, and myself do. From the outside, looks like a bad idea. Context?

@carnage4life substitute "NY Times" with "whatever authoritative source on the internet you respect". Just the first thing that came to mind

@carnage4life clicking on that Powers IE8 link results in a "file download" dialog in IE8 B2. LOL!

@carnage4life can you find any person other than yourself who thinks your hiatus is a good idea? Do what you want, of course, butimjustsayin

@carnage4life so you choose to work at Pacific Gas and Electric bringing utility electricity to "millions" instead of the NY Times? Dumb IMO

@carnage4life "you know that really effective high profile thing I do that a lot of people know me for? I'm gonna stop doing that." Yeah.

@bradwilson not my point. You can effect actual change through your blog, if you get enough attention. Can you do that from within MSFT?

@carnage4life has 69,229 RSS subscribers and is going on hiatus. Why? This makes no sense.

@wilshipley either you have a massively inflated sense of self-worth or disturbing level of faith in Google; not entirely sure which it is

@shanselman do Steve Ballmer! Shoot for the stars baby! I demand a Developers^3 sequel!

@luckiestmonkey yeah, Shipley is WAYYYY hotter than Diaz, first of all. Or maybe I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.

@millenomi you're right; my bad. I should have checked the date. Will have a followup blog post on this "soon" exploring underlying concepts

@carnage4life if it comes down to MSFT or blogging, the choice, to me, is crystal clear: blogging. That's what changed IE8.

@carnage4life why are you putting your blog on hiatus? That was a remarkably context-free post.

@kevindente last year the wireless *and wired* at the Ventian was sketchy as hell. 3G "unlimited" smartphone tethering FTW!

@shanselman your problem is that you give a damn what random commenters think of you. So emotionally fragile. Buck up lil' soldier!

@hotdogsladies that's because Clay Shirky and Clay Davis are related. Shiiii^32iiit

@kevindente unfortunately, I am not going to Mix-- I bumped myself so one of the core keynote team (and co-founder of Vertigo) could go

@jongalloway If I am reading your code correctly, your failure is greater than or equal to your learning?

@bradwilson "The 360 as a media extender is a failure" Not if you get the Falcon model, it ain't. 175w *peak*, and reasonably quiet.

@jongalloway the web is all about lowest common denominator. I don't see SVG support as the mission-critical cure for cancer that you do.

@shanselman mmm, Arby's

@gilesgoatboy I don't see it as Mac vs. PC so much as three-name-people vs. the world

@adkinn no, you gotta own that man. Stay "mix-cited"! I'm down!

@kevindente I think that varies by dialog, even in XP

@jongalloway colspan! th! cellpadding! who needs those stupid new-fangled DIVs and that complicated CSS, anyway

@joeljohnson does it matter how good the acting is when the movie itself is fundamentally broken? MIchael Clayton was stultifying.

@phammond well, I'll be damned. XML art. http://www.snee.com/xml/xml2004art/

@shanselman use more instances of iexplore.exe, or Firefox, which is more frugal with resources. Still don't understand why no x64 browsers

@shanselman Windows object limits http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000966.html it is higher in x64, surprising you're hitting it

@shanselman Firefox does a better job of not running Windows out of resources, but downside is: only one firefox.exe, so crash 1 crash all

@hotdogsladies excellent job on the Rock Band drums by the way. And tell Leo to stop coming on stage drunk, already.

@shanselman so I can search all 12 months of my Twitter messages through Snitter?

@wilshipley dude that sucks. hate stealing bastards.

@justinkohnen I link back when it contextually makes sense to link back (it is on topic), not just 'cuz it's there.

@bradwilson but portrait breaks ClearType RGB aa, which is a deal breaker for me. Too bad no OS is smart enough to figure that out..

@shanselman you're assuming followers are interested in your blog :) Needs to be much faster (within 1 hr) or it's redundant.

@engtech I'm kind of down on tagging in general. Content, tag thyself.

@kevindente none, other than the standard-- you really ought to bloggerate more.

@kevindente a twitter message is now the 7th result for a search on "kevin dente blog" (without quotes)

@eschaton brace yourself, my dear! http://tinyurl.com/ykxqna

@jongalloway equates Twitter with a nude beach. That is news to me. Where's the nudity? More importantly, where's the beach?

@shanselman maybe that diabetes thing is all in your head, man. Have you tried "walking it off", as my high school gym coach recommends?

@lemadchef LOL. Tools don't hurt, but it pains me to see how bad some people spell without them. It ain't right. Fix your wetware.

@jongalloway meant "brought" in the last msg. To bad my spell check wasn't working, eh? I say remove the training wheels and live free!!

@accordionguy http://snurl.com/20e3e is good stuff. Click it people! CLICK IT!

@jongalloway your right, spell checking can fine all my mistakes! tools are good, but hack your wetware, man. Learn to write and spell.

@wilshipley right, I also know people who own 8-core machines to check their email and browse the web.. REAL FAST

@shanselman is your next shot gonna be a poopy diaper? Awesome. SUBSCRIBED

@eridius fire up practice mode and do Guitar Solo 2H over and over. Start at 60%, speed up to 90%, slowly (use d-pad to adjust on the fly)

@shanselman all those songs are in the Conchords HBO series which is awesome http://www.hbo.com/conchords/ rent it on DVD

@eridius that, I can get past with practice. The ultra-ultra-fast series of triplets at the very end is just CRUEL. Now at 95%

@engtech the original blog by a cat http://ripley-the-cat.livejournal.com/ It's the only LiveJournal that makes any sense, frankly

@haacked and @sbellware get a room, geez

@kevindente but I can get a BlackJack II for free. Not *nearly* as sexy as iPhone, but functional 3G web, tethering, GPS. $399 > free!

@a7an still think iPhone v1, particularly at this late date in its lifecycle, is not a great idea. v2 better. But if you gotta have it now..

@kevindente they're still rich. $399 is a TON of up-front cash for a phone, which is usually heavily subsidized by the "2 year agreement"

@cisellis I'm 99.9% sure iPhone v.next will have GPS and 3G. Tethering.. not so sure about that. v1 iPhone is for rich tech addicts.

@kevindente WITHOUT jailbreaking the phone. I don't have to jailbreak my Blackjack to tether 3G internet on my lappy. It is *supported*.

@cisellis @a7an the one remaining possible iPhone dealbreaker: no laptop tethering for anywhere 3G internet access :(

@jongalloway you don't seem to grok the fact that you could write MORE blog posts if you make them smaller. More focused, better targeted.

@camurphy I just read obsessively as a kid. Unfortunately, this is not a good strategy for dating in high school, as I found out.

@kevindente well, Mr. Galloway has a wee problem with brevity. Make "fun-size" blog posts, Galloway. FUN SIZE. No novellas.

@jongalloway blog it up! screenshots pls! chop chop! if there's no blog entry, it never happened!(tm)(c)(2008)(rights reserved)

@hotdogsladies sometimes I long for more prosaic, non-clever updates from you. Don't get me wrong. You bring the funny. But mix it up yo!

@a7an I respectfully disagree. Video.Show is the best silverlight sample there is :) http://www.vertigo.com/videoshow.aspx

@kneath I think HTML+JS is "good enough" for almost everything. Except video, there is a good niche there.

@a7an I expect wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two, which reflects unfavorably on the proprietary version

@jongalloway TL;DR. Does Silverlight 2 have at least HTML standard control equivalents? Otherwise, too painful.

@omarshahine wow $249 for a scanner? I have a Canon LiDE 600F I like a lot-- why spend 2x as much?

@wilshipley I'd like to formally request a recalibration of your hot-o-meter. Consider the "I'd hit that" counter officially reset.

@hotdogs ladies was this interpretive dance, perchance, by the Torrance Community Dance Group? http://youtube.com/watch?v=4ULVQOneeZE

@hotdogsladies +1 using snap.com "mouseover preview" should be a criminal offense

@accordionguy You're familiar with the "crazy to hotness" graph from How I Met Your Mother? Crazy as that girl was, better be a supermodel..

@jongalloway I also like the way Acrobat integrates with Vista's shell preview feature. Ver 8 does suck a little less.

@scauer thanks for the "bootleg" full RSS Freakonomics feed link!

@haacked I don't think HFCS is what you're thinking of when you say "all natural sugar" http://tinyurl.com/37s42s

@wilshipley no need! Your supreme dickitude is self-evident! p.s. let's run away together p.p.s bring rock band

@haacked ooh, you know what else increases the risk of obesity? sitting in front of a computer all damn day and night. BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH

@wilshipley you'll get my ~5 daily cans of sweet, sweet diet pepsi max when you PRY THEM OUT OF MY COLD DEAD FINGERS

@wilshipley and we call those people.. "wussies".

@haacked see, that's where you're wrong. There is one rule to fit all, you're just not smart enough to think of it. Nyah.

@cisellis Onion AV interview with Billy Mitchell; he's a lying ass http://tinyurl.com/2qvmyp

@kevindente you have a blog? Are you sure? I can't remember that far back.

@a7an the (many) bugs in the VS IDE are one reason I start to empathize with "source control OUTSIDE the IDE" viewpoint. Less moving parts.

@a7an if you have repro steps to duplicate "doesn't get latest" let me know. Never seen it reproduced.. the buggy VS IDE is often the prob.

@a7an are your files being marked writable? the Subversion shell add-in sometimes interferes with file ops as well (ask Brian about this)

@kevindente if you feel strongly about something and want a discussion I'd be happy to host the topic on my blog (eg, guest blogger)

@kevindente email lists, even webified email lists, are silos. That's all I'm saying. Even a web forum would be a better choice.

@kevindente just write a blog entry. Don't waste time on siloed email lists. It's stupid, frankly. Make It Public(tm)(c).

@kaargocult I thought about salt.. snail killin' spray is pricy. Does the salt mess up the plants and lawn though?

@jongalloway make that last series a blog entry

@jongalloway PayPal only supports 20 char passwords: they're officially part of the problem. Great.