ben lowery

A long time ago in a state far away, I wrote an IHttpModule that provides HTTP compression to ASP.NET applications. People liked it, I kept it fairly updated and responded to most of the bugs that came in. For the last few years, I have not released any updates for it nor included any of the bug fixes that have come my way. The DotNetNuke project came along and offered to pull it into their umbrella of services, which I agreed to, and it’s been living there since. Last I knew, I was officially the admin for it on DNN, but it’s not a role I’ve really performed in any way.Since then, the download page here on blowery.org stayed up and it’s still, by far, the most popular thing on my site. People seem to get some utility out of it, so I’ve kept it up and will continue to do so.I’d always wanted to get the source into a publicly exposed subversion repository and thankfully Google has made that dead simple now. Going forward, I’m going to host the project at http://code.google.com/p/httpcompress/ and track issues and discussion using Google Code’s tools. If you’re interested in advancing the project, let me know and I can add you to the list of developers over on the site.

So, I finished Portal. The game takes a little while to wrap your head around, but once you do, it really gets under your skin. To the point that last night when the kiddo woke up crying, I was seriously thinking I could just set up a portal between the bedroom and the kid’s room to allow me to simply reach over and stick the pacifier back in his mouth. Or suck a bottle up from the kitchen downstairs without having to traverse the stairs in a half-awake, mostly blind stupor. Seriously. It was considered as an actual real thing. I love my brain when it just wakes up. Anything is possible.

That said, I’m glad I beat it and I can move on with life. Though I do miss my weighted companion cube…

I always wondered how these things work. The opening act when Air played in NYC was playing one and we were all looking at it, wondering what in the world was going on.

Silly me. I go and buy Feist’s album The Reminder right before Amazon opens up the MP3 store and I can have it a couple bucks cheaper, already encoded ad with no jewel case or physical media to deal with.

Goodbye iTunes Music store. Until all your stuff is DRM free, I won’t be buying anything from you.