Author: Ben

Scott Hanselman picked up on the new MSN Direct watches by Fossil and posted
his review. It looks pretty neat, if extremely dorky.  It’s a watch
that uses the FM band to send and receive information that you subscribe to. 
Things like stock quotes, weather information, and other random stuff.  It integrates
with Microsoft’s Passport and can integrate to some degree with Outlook. 
Neato.

Saw this via Gizmodo: Alex
Salkever compares the miniPod’s introduction to Spinal Tap’s famous
“it goes to 11” scene.  I have to say, I completely agree. 
I own a 10 gig iPod and when the battery
dies, I’m not sure what I’m going to replace it with.  It certainly
won’t be a miniPod, especially at that price.

 It’s good to know I’m not the only one who finds the lack of editorial
excellent a problem.

Like everybody else, I was checking out the
new MSN home page and I clicked over to the
tour. And right there as their top headline in the sample web page, it says, “Wierd
items of the future”.

Ahem. It’s spelled w-e-i-r-d.

And on all of the MSN properties, like local
city guides, you can see MSN’s new motto: “More Useful Everyday”.

Um, another spelling error. That should read “More Useful Every Day”. When used as
a single word, “everyday” is an adjective, not an adverb. Like “An everyday event”.

I’ll stick with My Yahoo,
thanks the same. At least they know how to spell.

[The Old
New Thing]

This one from Aimee Mann’s ‘Nightmare Girl’: “things are getting
weirder at the speed of light.” Things are actually pretty sane right now, for
the first time in quite a long time.  Hopefully the sanity sticks around for
a while. *chuckle*

I think a line from Coldplay’s song ‘The Scientist’ sums up my current
project at work nicely:

“Nobody said it was easy, but no one ever said it would be so hard.”

Don’t get me wrong, I love my job, but good lord, this stuff has been hard lately. 
Who knew porting what looks like a pretty simple ASP app to ASP.NET could be so challenging? 
A large part of it is that I’m changing the application to support better principles…
but wow.  I’m going to swamped until March.

Where should I go on vacation when I get done?