Napa for the Weekend
I was in wine country last weekend… Nothing beats wine + sun (unless it’s wine + sun + cheese).
I was in wine country last weekend… Nothing beats wine + sun (unless it’s wine + sun + cheese).
During the campaign, Obama created his own Flickr account. The photos during election night were amazing – and very personal. Obama now has a new Flickr account: The Official White House Photostream. The first set – Delivering on Change – was just posted. Here are a few of my favorites. superbowl briefing on swine flu Michelle Obama with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of french president a day in the office
Just saw this on the NPR Planet Money blog. It depicts the inter-connectedness of credit default swaps. Kinda reminds you of a really complicated “who hooked up with who” diagram…
Here are all the Silverlight 3 Beta links, if you’re interested in digging in. Silverlight 3 Developer Runtime (windows, mac) Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio Microsoft Expression Blend 3 Preview Silverlight Toolkit .NET RIA Services As a callout: This is a developer beta release only! This means there is no “go-live” licensing available and the end-user runtime of Silverlight 3 is not available. A full list of the new features can be found here. If you’re curious, some of the new framework features inside of the core runtime are: BasedOn Styles Merged ResourceDictionaries Ability to listen to handled …
Thank you to everyone to who came to my talk at Mix09! I’m always a bit nervous having talks on the last day of a conference. (After all, you work really hard to pull a session together – and it can kinda be a bummer talking to mostly empty chairs.) But my room was full, and the audience’s vibe felt great from stage. 🙂 If you missed the session, you can watch the video here: Also, as promised, here are links to… Sample source code Deck The final WishExplorer demo uses Wishpot’s 3rd party web service. Wishpot is a great …
Yep. That’s a rhyming blog post title. Anyways. 🙂 Mix09 is next week. As you can tell from the title of our talks… You’ll get to see Silverlight 3 at Mix this year! Here are some of the core Silverlight talks (including one by me). Also note the ambiguously named talk by Mike Harsh – I can’t wait for that session!
Smashing holiday in London! More soon, long flight – quite zonked. Cheers! (Look Mom, I can speak British!) me, in front of parliament
The view from the London Eye at sunset was lovely…. the ferris wheel thames river eye from above parliament liane and me
attempting to punch policeman outside of buckingham palace. westminister abbey was closed again. (it was also closed the last time i was in london.) fortunately, i was able to get in early monday before my flight. the poets’ corner was my favorite. black cabbies in front of buckingham palace gratuitous tourist shot eye on the thames liane, raaj, & patella on millennium bridge
I usually ponder my next trip for a while, before I buy a ticket. About 3 weeks ago, though, a high school friend IM’ed me at work. I was mid work email, so I was ignoring him. :) And then he wrote something like, “I was talking to Liane last night… and we’re thinking of doing a long weekend in London. Flights are cheap. Wanna come?” My initial reaction, was… are you guys crazy? But, I checked and there was a direct flight from Seattle for $530. We figured out we could get free hotel on Starwood points. The trip …