A commonly hit HTML limitation is the inability to easily use custom fonts. Since you’re limited to the fonts installed on the machine, you have no way of ensuring that “MyFont.tff” is already on the client.
Fil’s written a way to have Silverlight do the dirty work. It’s a called Sistr, and is a a spin on the Flash powered sIFR. All you have to do is drop his javascript file in to your page and add the appropriate css tags.
You can find out all about it here.
By lucky chance, I was able to get tickets for Yo-Yo Ma’s performance with the Seattle Symphony this weekend. (Thanks Seema for the eagle eye!)
I’ve seen Yo-Yo Ma once before - as a part of his Silk Road Ensemble. And while it was great, I left really wanting to see him playing classical music (and solo-ing!).
I’m so excited!
** If you’re a huge (dork) West Wing Fan, like me, you might have gotten the Donna reference in the blog title. :)
After seeing my friends Monica & Brian with their Lensbaby, I decided I wanted to play too.
The Lensbaby is this “glass-free” lens - it’s literally a spring with an aperture hole that you bend the to focus its “sweet spot” where you want. The rest of the photo has a gradually increasing blur.
Here’s a photo I took with my Lensbaby while on the ferry to Bainbridge.
Earlier today, the first version of Silverlight went out the door!! Silverlight is Microsoft’s cross-platform, cross-browser plugin aimed at enabling rich media experiences and interactive applications on the web. (And with the newly announced Novell Moonlight partnership, Silverlight will be available on Windows, Mac, AND Linux.)
Hats off to the folks who made it happen.
On a personal note, I joined the Silverlight team last week, and am SUPER excited to be working on the 1.1 release. The team has done an incredible job with 1.0, and I think things are just going to keep getting better and better. 
If you haven’t had a Silverlight-powered experience yet, try these out:
The new Halo 3 trailer shown using Silverlight. (There’s also an HD version.)
A new web search experience leveraging Live Search and Silverlight.
p.s. Thanks to Tim for the pointer to Catherine Heller’s Silverlight animation, shown above.