Ok, this is a bit off topic (do I have a topic?), but what is it with people and their cigarette butts?  Just today, I saw 3 separate burning butts ejected out of car windows, burning ashes flying everywhere.  Two of those were on a narrow divided highway with dry grass in the median.  Do [...]

Ben Lowery posts HttpCompressionModule, an IHttpModule implementation with source that does gzip/deflate HTTP compression. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] Hmmm, alternatively you could just turn on the built in support for this. [Simon Fell]The built-in IIS implementation in Windows 2000 and earlier has some limitations, though; the most significant is that if you turn on compression [...]

Australian scientists claim teleporting success“[...] scientists in Australia have successfully teleported a laser beam of light from one spot to another in a split second”“[...] not too far from being able to teleport solid matter from one location to another.”Cool!

From this article:“Most observers say Web services do not yet lend themselves to huge, transaction-based systems because there is some delay associated with Web services making requests, particularly across multiple networks.”“[...] it soon became apparent’ that the Web services approach would not fly, Johnson said. The [HSN.com] search engine handles more than 200,000 requests every [...]

It’s a girl. Karyn gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Elaina Margaret Weakliem today (6/16) at 6:28 AM.  Mother and baby are doing fine.  Elaina is 5 lb. 13 oz., 19″ long, and has a full head of hair and dark eyes.  She’s been pretty sleepy today so we’ve been enjoying the quiet.  I’m very [...]

Sun plays catch up with Web services. The company, sensing it has fallen behind rivals Microsoft and IBM in Web services leadership, is launching a renewed strategy in an attempt to play catch up. [CNET News.com] [Drew's Blog]I still haven’t seen a lot of evidence that Sun really wants to play in the web services [...]

Microsoft SQLXML 3.0 lets you leverage you existing Transact-SQL stored procedures by generating WSDL files for single or multiple query resultsets. This article shows you how to take advantage of SQLXML 3.0′s new capabilities, such as delivering strongly-typed DataSets to populate DataGrids. It also includes source code for a Visual Basic .NET Windows form consumer [...]

The Right CarMounting problems with the BMW 7 Series. Maybe one day people will realize how overrated the Beemer really is. Nice car for the most part but definetly much to overhyped. Don’t believe me? Just test drive a 330 and a Infiniti G35 back to back. And then decide what to do with the [...]

UDDI – content itself, or directory? [...] The problem is that we’ve placed UDDI at the wrong point in the protocol stack. It’s not the equivalent of a Google; it’s the equivalent of the Web. UDDI is the “place” where anyone can post structured references to anything. This is as opposed to unstructured information on [...]

WS-SecurityPutting credentials in a SOAP header without an ecrypted channel is a waste of time, but if you have an encrypted channel, you might as well use the channel’s authentication support. WS-Security only starts to make sense [much the same as SOAP] when you have intermediaries. [Simon Fell]But part of the potential of WS-Security is [...]