The Bill Hill Experience
Reading on Screen and cleartype
Web typography is still in its infancy and still leaves a lot to be desired. Bill Hill is working hard on improving the experience of reading type on screen. A great set of interviews from Channel9.
The first dweller in the electronic cottage moves house
Arthur C. Clarke, once called "the first dweller in the electronic cottage" passed away today, he was 90. As well as writing inspirational science fiction he also predicted that, at 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface, communications satellites would sit in geo-stationary orbit, allowing electronic signals to be bounced off them around the globe, effectively ushering in the world we know today.
Probably best know for his collaboration with Kubrick on 2001…
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FREE! ASP.NET MVC eBook Chapter
Scot Hanselman (and others) have a download link to the first chapter (more of a section at 1850 pages long!) totally free and totally cool. Get the NerdDinner.com walkthrough here.
ASP.NET MVC RC1
Scott Guthrie made the announcement that ASP.NET MVC has reached Release Candidate 1. Go grab the bits at http://www.asp.net/mvc/
EverSave for OS X
You should be saving your work on a regular basis in case of crashes, but for those who forget to cmd+s like clockwork EverSave seems like a great idea.
DNS is hard
Setting up DNS on an OS X Server is bloody hard! One step forward two steps back.
Wordpress for iPhone
It's free and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
Party!
Father of the brides 60th last night. Great party, not so great hangover.
Fantastic!