Sheepish Humour

Did you hear about the lame lamb with a gamboling problem?

Pinball Wizardry

I'm going to have to have a go at taking some pictures as good as these.

The Importance of Meaning

I've found another interesting blog post. This one is about the way that Service Oriented Architecture (where you create applications from components which expose what they can do in terms of services that they provide via a network connection) may not be the way and the truth.

This is because although you could provide a service called "Sell Widget" you can only use it properly if you have a good understanding of the meaning of precisely what it will do - which is not something that is guaranteed.

On the way to his conclusion the author provides a nice description of the archicture. Worth a read.

Spell with flickr

You might not have seen this before. Seldom has Rob Miles looked better.

New York Times in WPF

If you want to read the New York Times for free, and in style, head off down here and download the Times Reader beta. This is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) program which lets you read the newspaper on your Windows XP or Windows Vista device.

For the moment they are offering open access to the service, and it really works quite well. The environment itself is super duper, and a splendid way to see what WPF can be made to deliver.