Jon Galloway

Eric Lippert has posted his third installment of answers to Google queries that seemed to have reached his blog in error. No matter, Eric Explains It All:Riddle Me This, Google, Part Three

I'm happy to see the huge growth of community contributed code - things like RSS.NET, sharpziplib, ftp classes to tide us over 'til .NET 2.0, etc.

I got a 30GB MP3 player for Christmas so this Podcasting thing is getting more interesting to me. I'd previously wanted a Podcast feed from the Pitchfork Media MP3 page. I'd even started building an application to build the RSS for me based on  Roy Osherove's Site-To-RSS code.

Favorite icons (a.k.a favicon.ico) are cool. IE recognizes them when you save bookmark a page, Mozilla based browsers automatically request them. They're a nice finishing touch on a website, but not something that's usually scheduled or requested.

If you're involved at all with websites, there's a reasonable chance that your first e-mail of 2005 will be marked with a red bang (!) and have the following subject line:

Think your smart? Well your not. Take this quiz and you can know that your dumb.
Look Around You - Maths Quiz

If you still think your smart than you should also take this programming quiz. To know what kind of programmer you are:
SecretGeek - What kind of programmer are you?

[heard about Look Around You from the staff of Shaff.com]