Jeff Makes Software

The post I just wrote was sucked into the ether and required me to login again. It's at least the tenth time I've logged in today to this site or the blog site. Clearly they're having cookie issues in the upgrade.

Why in the world would they be updating the ajax.asp.net site right now, during the business day?

This week's blast of Digg with the HD-DVD encryption key was interesting enough to watch. If you weren't following, one of the keys that allows HD-DVD gear to playback discs got out into the open, and it was posted on Digg. A lot. At first they tried to remove the stuff and ban users that posted it, because it was a clear violation of the DMCA. The site eventually went down and in the long run, they decided to just let it go.

I was working on a project where I wanted to do some nifty AJAXy stuff tonight. I've actually been messing with it for a few nights now, and today I got frustrated with the way things were going so I almost started over.

I keep getting e-mail notification indicating that my Xbox Live subscription is about to expire. That's alarming since I recently re-upped using a card I bought at retail (it was old, and came with another headset and free billiards game from Arcade).

If your experience is anything like mine, you probably have been using generics like crazy since .NET v2 hit the streets (or before if you were a beta monkey). It's so much easier to manipulate object and especially strongly typed collections.

In today's Kool-Aid drinking exercise, I have to say that I really like the Apple TV. I bought it yesterday at my local Apple Store.

I've been known to drink the 37signals Kool-Aid now and then, because I think that in the bigger picture they have a lot of good ideas about user interface design and process.