Too much Microsoft Love for one day? On Thursday us Vermont Geeks are being treated to an MSDN Bob and Chris Roadshow. And on top of that, we'll be enjoying a VS2008 InstallFest after a full day of presentations. That's a lot of Microsoft Love for one day! Postscript: Chris Bowen is a phenomenal Microsoft Evangelist, he really is.
Me and my Toro 828LE are ready for action. The first substantial snow storm is supposed to arrive in Vermont later tonight and me and my Toro 828LE snow blower are ready. I love my snow blower. It sounds really weird, but I know other guys who feel the same way about their snow blower. They're just not man enough to blog about it like I am.
Targeted marketing and facebook's bad play. I never got facebook or why anyone cares about it, but the recent storm of beacon criticism fascinates me. The thing is, we want targeted marketing, ads tailored to our interests and purchase history, but having no opt-in is just plain stupid. Not only that, but as Dare Obasanjo explains, a beacon.js on affiliate sites passes data back to facebook with no user control for all users on the affiliate sites, whether they're facebook users or not.
Apocalypto. I put Mel Gibson's Apocalypto in our NetFlix queue for the second time, having watched it by myself the first time and being completely mesmerized by it. A very hard movie to watch though. My wife watched it with me last night. She got as far as the temple.
Weekend CS Coding Bits. I was able to squeeze in 6 hours of work this weekend creating an original Chameleon Control and getting dirty on adding paging support. The most interesting aspect was having to overwrite the page DataBind() method because the page inherits from CSBlogThemePage and results in a List<WeblogPost> datasource with a BlogThreadQuery instead of using the custom control's thread query class. My ITunes app pages inherited from CSThemePageBase, so I could bind directly to the custom control.