1. Ponds by the Grand Canyon

    Ponds by the Grand Canyon

  2. I have finally entered the post-blackberry corporate era! Goodbye pearl hello iPhone! I have had the iPhone for several months but now that it’s my only phone for my corporate email I’m finding that there are little things I don’t like about it… Single view of corporate + other email accounts and notification of new email on locked up screen to name a few.

  3. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ →

  4. Cool interactive graph from NY Times on how people spend their time on a average day →

  5. Summertime!

    Summertime!

  6. C# 3.0 inline class instantiation and MS Enterprise Library Validation issue

    This throws an error:

    var entity = new Entity() { Name = name, TokenValue = tokenValue };
    ValidationResults r = Validation.Validate(entity);

    This works:

    var entity = new Entity();
    entity.Name = name;
    entity.TokenValue = tokenValue;
    ValidationResults r = Validation.Validate(entity);

    My understanding of C# 3.0 is that the two above statements are doing the exact same thing, but I guess they are not. I wonder where the issues lies. Any ideas?

  7. What’s in your wallet?

    I checked out my credit reports over the weekend via http://www.annualcreditreport.com (which is the official start place for the government mandated free  once-per-year credit check). Aside from the fact that my wife does an awesome job of paying our bills on time I also noted that Capital One checked my credit 35 times in a 15 month period. Incredible, especially as I don’t even have a Capital One credit card.

  8. Lazy reporting or is it?

    I was listening to Mike Birbiglia on NPR this weekend. I love his style of comedy. At the end of his piece the announcer  advertises his upcoming tour and says “search the internet for his name for detail”. At first my thoughts were along the lines of this being some sloppy reporting. Why not just give us the web address.

    Then it occurred to me. First, I usually listen to the radio in the car which isn’t the ideal place to write something down. Second, I have no idea how to spell ‘Birbiglia’ an attempt to enter the url would likely be typed in incorrectly. Getting home I attempted to enter his name into google and this is where Google’s auto-complete took over. As soon as I had entered ‘Mike B’ I was given the remainder of the name and the first link took me to the information advertised on the radio.

    Sure, the presenter could’ve wasted 30 seconds giving the full url complete with spelling to an audience which isn’t in a position to write it down or do what it did which was to remind you to search for it which should get you close enough. I think they got it right.

  9. Bad day to have a Mac problem

    IPhone 3G S day is not the day to have a hard drive issue on my Mac notebook. Zero chance of getting it into the Genius bar today or tomorrow.

  10. Personal use of a corporate cell/blackberry is taxable income

    — Heard on NPR - good to know