EVERYONE LOVES SCOTTGU! (EPISODE 243.) It was great to read the Lermanizer give Microsoft's Scott Guthrie some public appreciation today. When I posted my VS2005 SP1 Sucks post recently, ScottGu commented, asked for any additional info he could send along to the team--which I did--and a team member followed up with me. I didn't want to deal with yet more SP1 pain and didn't follow-up further, but it was another episode reinforcing ScottGu's Superhero status in my .NET world.
WRITE TO WANNA READ WHAT YA WROTE. New book on my Amazon wish list, thanks to Guy Kawaski's mention. Apparently the "If you want to write" book was originally published in 1938. Talk about a long tail. While you're on Guy's post, download Hugh Macleod's "How to be Creative" ChangeThis manifesto. Excellent reading while on your Nordic Track Ski Machine!
THIS GUY MUST HAVE REALLY SUCKED. Apple and Cingular together, Woo-hoo! Hey, I get the idea that we're not all great presenters, but the photo on the You Blog post in this smattering requires few additional words. It's worth reading anyway because the post describes what the CEO of Cingular should have done while on stage at Job's iPhone announcement instead of becoming a poster boy of what you shouldn't do.
LOVECRAFT, CLICK YOUR STATE FOR THE BEST RATE! Rogers Cadenhead reports that a New York Times reporter tracked down the graphic designer who created those slimy dancing mortgage ads. Rogers includes a graphic to those of you who are unexposed. Describing the dancers as "Lovecraftian brain-destroying contagion unleashed on the world in the name of affordable mortgage refinance" was the best sentence I read on the Internet last week.
HALEY CAN CODE. We forget that before Jason Haley gained fame with his Interesting Finds (now in a state of metamorphosis apparently), that he was a super coder. If Jason was 20 years older he would have been one of the nation's greatest Assembler programmers at one time, and renown for his JCL master classes. Jason describes with rich .NET detail how he created his new subscription list, which he designed with the ultimate goal of subscribing only to the people that he had linked to in the past.