Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

I'm surprised this idea hasn't caught on sooner. Sewers are a natural place to run infrastructure. Sure, installing the cables would be kinda shitty (pun intended), but isn't that why a cabling installer's natural tendancy is to run cables through ventilation shafts? Infrastructure costs would plummet, and our streets wouldn't have to be dug up so much.

Out of common courtesy to everyone else, will people PLEASE check how their post renders on the home page directly after posting? Someone thought put a scrollable area in their title. Now. I'm a big fan of those, believe me, but the whole rest of the site is unreadable now.

One of the things that I've wanted for a long time with .Text is the ability to have folders that are not mapped to the .Text blogging engine. Well, I had a great idea while I was in the shower this morning (all great ideas come while bathing, at least in my experience), and it proved to work famously. Create your directory, create a new web.config file, and add the following information only:

I'm looking at moving to a Hosted Exchange solution for managing Interscape's collaboration needs... I'd love to hear some experiences with some good Exchange 2003 hosting providers. I'll move forward with my research based in part on your recommendations. If any of you have a few minutes, I'd like to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

Shane Bauer pointed me to this article. This is very very sad. Parents have no frickin clue sometimes. I mean, how messed up is this kid gonna be? I'd have my name changed as soon as I could. I sure hope his job brings in enough that he can afford his kid's therapy. He'll need LOTS of it.

Last week, following the publication of this article on Builder.com, I was approached by an editor at Wiley & Sons (Makers of the “...For Dummies” books) in the UK about reviewing a draft of a book they are working on. I agreed, and the past two weeks have been fabulously interesting. I can't discuss the book yet (BELIEVE ME, when I can, I will) but I can say that it now comes in #2 on Robert's List of Books Every Programmer Should Read™, right behind Writing Secure Code, Second Edition.

News.com has a great article on the IE “address spoofing flaw”, and the forthcoming patch to solve it. It's a must read, so go check it out.

News.com is reporting that Microsoft has made a statement saying that it will hold off on Eolas-related Internet Explorer modifications until after the appeals process is over. Microsoft is currently awaiting the results of a Patent Office review of the Eolas patent, based upon several possibilities of prior art.

"The action by the patent office may result in the cancellation of the Eolas patent," according to the Microsoft statement. "Given these circumstances, and after consulting industry colleagues and developers, Microsoft, for now, will not be releasing an update to Internet Explorer and does not plan on making the changes it announced in October to Windows XP Service Pack 2."