Slacking on my postings.

Okay, its been awhile since I posted to my blog. What's up with William, you (lack of people who read my blog) may ask.

Here is what I been doing lately that has made me a slacker:

• Playing lots of World of Warcraft. I started playing with Venk, and moved my characters over to the Lightbringer server. My cartoons: Cursacerdos and Pallaton . It's weird playing on PvE server now, I don't get jumped and every time I see an Alliance player I almost instinctively want to attack them.
  
• Reading and Programming from "Essential Windows Communication Foundation" and "C# 3.5 in a Nutshell". Really love how WCF has improved the way of communication. It is also interesting reading some of the interesting ways (==) is not the same as .Equals and the complications of DateTime vs. DateTime Offset.
  
• Watching TV, hoping for something that isn't a repeat. Unfortunately the only thing worth watching is The Daily Show, Lost, Biggest Loser, and Eli Stone.
  
• Listing to tons of Podcasts. My favorites so far are:
Grammar Girl , Math Grad , Math Factor , Diggnation , 60-Second Science . I keep slacking off listing to the Japanese Podcasts.

In local news: Qwest to Workers - Pee in a Urinal Bag

Qwest told 25 workers to piss in a bag instead of stopping somewhere, claims union reps.  I would be just pissed if I was working at Qwest. Ugh bad pun, booo I suck. here's another one :)

"One local administrative director said that while the union deals with a "a lot of silliness in corporate America," this one takes the [urinal] cake."

 

Source: http://consumerist.com/371011/qwest-to-workers-pee-in-a-urinal-bag

IE 8 dilemma "Backward Compatibility vs. Web Standards"

An interesting read from Joel Spolsky's blog 'Joel on Software', I think he hit the nail on the head about the new IE 8. The tough decision Microsoft has to make on "backward compatibility vs. web standards" is damning to Microsoft.

I been beta testing the new browser and reporting any errors I come across, except for web sites that are not correctly displayed anymore, as I will explain. (Ex: Google Maps)

I categorize myself as an "idealist" (according to Joel), I think that IE should "treat all sites that claim to be 'standards-compliant' as if they have been designed for and tested with IE8". In another word, if a site is broken, then they should fix it themselves, and leave the new IE as clean as possible.

Even though I'm an "idealist", I do have my heart out to the "realist" who believe there should be some way of applying backward compatibility.

Joel's prediction on what is going to happen is probably true, but I like to add one addition. I think this beta version might last a lot longer then what most believe. This will end up hurting Microsoft in the beginning, but it is necessary to get IE back on the right track.

Food Court Musical by Improv Everywhere

The group that brought us the "Frozen Grand Central" is back again, this time with a food court musical.

I always love watching the people's reactions when this stuff happens.

http://improveverywhere.com/2008/03/09/food-court-musical/#more-221

Well my home town is in the news. (Elmira, NY)

"Christians ordered to pay big bucks – for praying!" - http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57757

Summary: 4 christian Elmirans were fined $100 for praying at a gay fest, by getting in the way "public order".

I'm not a religious person, actually I'm a atheist, but to impede on someone's right to free speech is just ethically wrong and this seems like something the right wing conservatives would do. The thing is since it was a small group of people, they could of protest near the church which is across the street (north) from the park.

Wisner Park

Sergeant Moyer