Notes for 1/22/2006

Here are my weekly notes:

• I burned my lip on extremely hot pizza sauce tonight – doesn’t look too good. That will teach me to let it cool down a bit first! I love pizza though…
• While eating the pizza I watched China Rises on CBC. Tonight was the first two hours with the final two showing next Sunday. Pretty interesting documentary thus far! Would be so nice to go to China for the 2008 Olympics.
• If you’re reading this in an aggregator, you’ll probably notice that I now am using FeedBurner. The location of the feed and everything is the same, but with FeedBurner I can track statistics, and add the nifty little “Email This”-type links at the bottom of items. Let me know if you encounter any problems!
• It’s funny how simple things can make your life so much easier. In ASP.NET 1.1, you could tell IIS to let the runtime handle incoming requests, but if you didn’t handle one, it failed. In ASP.NET 2.0, if you don’t handle a request, it is sent back to IIS to be handled – so much better! I guess you won’t understand if you haven’t attempted to accomplish this, but take my word for it, huge improvement. If you’re looking for regex URL rewriting in .NET, check out this awesome site.
• Ah, LSD. The geek’s wonder drug?
• Couple interesting bits of Microsoft news this week. First, Blackcomb (codename for the version of Windows after Vista) has been renamed to Vienna – apparently it was a better “vista”, even though Blackcomb is a ski resort! The other more useful bit of news is that the MSN Search team has added about a million facts that can be displayed as an “instant answer”. Works great too, give it a try.
• The big election in Canada is tomorrow – make sure you get out and vote! I am undecided still, but I have it narrowed down to two. If you’re having trouble deciding, the CBC has a good rundown of the parties and their platforms.