Knowing .NET

• RT @rickasaurus: Astronomers Find Black Holes Do Not Absorb Dark Matter #space http://bit.ly/crdACo #
• Conservatives reacting with same fury & dismay that liberals reacted to Iraq 7 yrs ago. My theory: “we’ll muddle along.” #
• Resolver One (Python-powered and -programmable spreadsheet) is one of my 2-3 top new apps in the past decade. Buy it on 3/31 for $40. #
• They just hit a sewer pipe at Hualalai Center http://twitpic.com/1aoinf #
• Content-Aware Fill http://bit.ly/bo77sq looks awesome, but will it be in CS5 or is it just a demo of a future capability? #
• My lack of graphic skill is killing me on this demo. Good code, but I just know that the reaction is going to be “Ugh! That’s not pretty!” #
• As I look at a piece of JavaScript ‘));});’ I think how amusing it is that people complain about LISP’s parentheses #
• Heavy vog today in Kona… :-( #
• Almost pau hana… #
• Pau hana! No work til Monday… #
• What is the equivalent of GGeoXml in Google Maps API 3? #lazyweb #google_maps #geolocating #
• I love it when a plan comes together… #

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Original: Matthew Mason

Adrian Brody and company go mauka from MacKenzie Park and get some stink-eye.

Amazing. This guy created a real Turing machine built around a dry-erase marker, film leader, and a Webcam.

My interview with Mark Michaelis, author of Essential C#.

• Hadn’t heard about the Massa scandal before SNL last night. Now: Happy that I refer to my favorite pastime as “freediving,” nor “snorkeling” #
• LOL: http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion #
• I love music but $380K for HI County brass band is stupid. Defund and let ‘em raise funds as nonprofit. Put $ in music educ or fix potholes #
• Jetski becomes Hovercraft becomes Plane. $13K. Ridiculous markup! The plans can be bought from comic books for $10 http://bit.ly/d1QCs0 #
• When you create a patch for FOSS while working for a client, do you credit client with patch (“This patch supported by…”) or somesuch? #
• The one day a year Tina can’t veto me playing Stiff Little Fingers really, REALLY loudly. #
• Spend 90% of your money today on women and Irish whiskey. Waste the rest. #
• Note to self: Never get another haircut from a barber leaving town in 4 days. #
• RIP Alex Chilton: http://bit.ly/awXLrk #
• Kindle for Mac S/W Now Available: http://bit.ly/aUFRi5 #
• XBox has died: locks up with graphics freeze shortly after boot. eBay used console or spend 3x for new unit? #
• “What would you do with 48 cores?” AMD contest, $8K hardware prize. Deadline 3/24 http://bit.ly/bf8iyC #
• Is it true that film stock is transparent to IR? So can you make an IR filter for your DSLR from a med-format negative of a graycard? #
• Alan Zeichick’s dead-on take of CocoaTouch vs. Android vs. Win7 Phone: http://bit.ly/b1TZqV #
• Yep. http://www.sleepingtime.org/lobrien #
• Passed sign waver dressed as a mattress. In Hawaii. At 11am. #living_the_dream #
• Elapsed time: 14 minutes. My costco-Fu is unbeatable! #
• “Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises http://bit.ly/cFZ4Gz” via @rickasaurus -> MS is just realizing this NOW? Can’t be. in reply to rickasaurus #
• Happy Spring Equinox! #
• 4th or 5th rainshower this week in Kona. Looks like the drought’s breaking… #

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My latest column for SD Times laments the sad fact that the Tablet PC has never generated a fraction of the development demand of the iPad.