Not buying an Xbox
Yesterday, my brain decided to go down a path where buying an Xbox One started to seem like a good idea. I had nearly convinced myself to buy an Xbox […]
Roddy McDowall Reads H. P. Lovecraft
Of all the people you could choose to read H. P. Lovecraft stories, how did somebody decide to choose Roddy McDowall? I listened to about a minute of this, and […]
JoCo Cruise
What Happens When You Put 2,000 Nerds on a Boat? – from the NY Times I keep thinking I should go on the JoCo cruise one of these years. The […]
Microsoft Build
I wish I could have stayed in the Seattle area for MS Build, instead of coming back to NJ on Saturday. There have been some interesting announcements, including a new […]
back home and (slightly) broken
I’m back home today, after spending a few days in Redmond, WA for a two-day workshop on the Microsoft Partner Center SDK. This particular API/SDK is esoteric enough that it’s […]
Azure and baseball and comics
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I did manage to watch a few of the Global Azure Bootcamp videos, yesterday and this morning. I didn’t really find any videos that directly […]
Global Azure Bootcamp and Pragmatic Programming
I’ve been doing a bunch of work related to Azure recently. It’s mostly not around actually using Azure, but rather managing Azure and billing for Azure. I’m in the middle […]
more Amazon stuff
I didn’t really intend to write two posts about Amazon in a row (previous post here), but two things caught my attention today: Amazon is going to try to switch […]
Amazon delivery shenanigans
I’ve been getting curious lately about some of the stuff that Amazon seems to be doing around package delivery. Like many people, I’m an Amazon Prime customer and I order […]
Easter walk and Flickr problems
It’s Easter, it’s nice out, and I’ve got nothing much to do today. So I went out for a walk and took some pictures. I uploaded them to Flickr here, […]