Doug Kaye points this out:

Don Box: Too Many Specs. The co-inventor of SOAP (now a Microsoft engineer) had harsh words this week for vendors contributing to the plethora of web-services specifications, and advised developers to read less of them and get on with writing applications.

Yes.  I agree 100%.  The WS-* specs seem to make things more confusing, more complicated, work against each other, and generally muck things up.  I’ll bet that they don’t actually solve the problems that they set out to solve for most people.

Jenny, the awesome Shifted Librarian:

We’ve decided that Andy Rhinehart is channeling my RSS feed. On his way in to work this morning at our favorite Spartanburg newspaper, he thought up a way to syndicate Associated Press headlines. So put your hands together for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal’s AP National and AP World RSS feeds!

Yes!  Subscribed, subscribed.

It’d be really nice if we could get this information straight from the AP though.  I mean we are all independent reporters.

MacSlash:

Apple has introduced an updated Power Mac. The relevant specs: dual G4/1.42, upgraded DDR 333 RAM, and FireWire 800, with pricing between $1499 and $3799. From the site: “The new Power Mac G4 combines rock solid engineering reflective of the full-throttle Xserve architecture with new technologies for massively enhanced output and connectivity. And it’s a digital media powerhouse that delivers tremendous value across the line, with dual processor performance starting at just $1999”

Gizmodo:

Wait a second. So Sony Ericsson’s widely anticipated P800 smartphone is about to go on sale in Bulgaria, but it’s still weeks away from being available in the US?

That’s messed up.  I protest.  I’d settle for a Nokia 7650 or something similar though.  Something?  Anything?

Clarance Westberg:

I got a new vehicle yesterday, it was time my 93 GMC safari had a 150,000 miles and went 1 repair bill over the line. I got a Blue 2003 Honda Element. I really like this thing, I don’t usually name my vehicles but I am this time. I am going to call it the Tardis because of it’s looks and the fact that it is bigger on the inside than the outside.

I really like this boxy pseudo-SUV.  It looks a little weird at some angles, but I’m sure it rocks.  Enjoy, Clarance.

Steve “Furrygoat” Makofsky:

Looks like gotdotnet.com has posted several QuickStart Tutorial’s for the .NET Compact Framework.

Gobs of information here.  Gobs.

Clemens Vasters wants WSDL to die.  I told you I’d find and expert for you:

So, I hereby declare myself as an expert on that matter 😉  Based on what I’ve seen WSDL do for me and looking at what’s been evolving in the WS-* spec realm lately, I want it to die. I think we its time is up and we no longer need it and I believe it will cause more problems than provide solutions moving forward.

Definately read the rest of his post for more.

OSNews:

Sony Ericsson has unveiled its new T310 mobile phone, which will come with Activision’s Gamehit Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 preloaded and additional games can be downloaded. The phone features a mini-joystick, color display, 32 polyphonic sounds and vibrating force feedback. Some pictures can be found at Three G Mobile.

More info is available at the T310 Page.

WebServices.Org notes that the WSDL 1.2 Working Draft has been published.

I’ll leave the analysis to those more qualified.

James Robertson:

I’m giving a talk on XP in Smalltalk at the XP DC Group on March 10.

Hmm, I might just be able to make that.

Doc:

Wouldn’t Donner Party make a perfect reality TV show?
Hey, don’t just vote losers off.

Don’t give them any ideas!

Cool, Georg Bauer has posted a step by step guide to starting a weblog with PyDS, screenshots and all.

Keep up the great work!

Dave:

News.Com reports that Groove has raised more money, $38 million, and has laid off 20 percent of its employees. By my count, they have raised $140 million. How many dollars per user is that? How many dollars per employee? Imagine if Pyra had raised $140 million. (They could have bought UserLand, and still had some cash left over. Hehe.)

I don’t want to jinx anyone by mentioning names, but I hope that everything goes as well as possible for everyone that we know inside Groove.

Slashdot asks if we write backdoors.

If we did, would we tell you?

Just when you thought switch parodies were over, Jeremy via Derek:

Okay, this has to be the most amusing switch parody I’ve ever seen. I laughed my ass off.

“What is it, the cloverleaf period thing?”

OS News:

An even bigger endorsement comes from Microsoft Corp., which will begin shipping a 64-bit Windows server operating system for Opteron ahead of the chip’s launch. And in a break from the company’s traditional hand-in-hand relationship with Intel, Microsoft execs are talking up Opteron. They say the AMD chip helps companies that want to move at their own speed. “With 64 bits, some customers are going to want to ease into it,” says Bob O’Brien, group product manager for Windows Server 2003.”

Read the article at BusinessWeek.

I have a feeling that AMD’s x86-64 line, both Opteron and Athlon64, are going to really going to blast through both the server and desktop markets.  By the time they actually hit the streets, we should be able to run a 64 bit version of Windows and probably our choice of 64 bit linux distros.

This is going to be fun.

Sorry about the delay.  320×240 versions of the pictures that I took last night are now up.  They will reside at my Washington Interns Gone Bad Page.  Here are two of my favorites:

That’s my older sister on the right.

I realized last night that I know very little about the DC blogging scene.  I was talking to the director before the showing, and he said, “man, you sure talk about some high end shit.”  I guess.  Of course, the stuff I talk about is second grade spelling compared to some of the bloggers that I read.

I think everything went well last night.  I’m still amazed that they were able to put this together on a sub-$1000 budget.  It could really be the next Clerks, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, or Rocky Horror Picture Show.  I mean it.

I’m back. I told some people that I would put some pictures from tonight up on my weblog. I think that’s going to have to wait until the morning.

Watch this space in the morning and I’ll also send out emails in the morning. The movie absolutely rocked. All with a $600 digital camera, an old school celeron, and Adobe Premiere/After Effects. Truly great stuff.

Visions was really chill too. Details in the morning, pictures in the morning. Emails in the morning. It’s midnight.

I’m off to see a one night engagement of Washington Interns Gone Bad at Visions Cinema.  That’s my older sister with the intern slaying knife.  She made mom proud.  🙂

Wonderful B-Movie goodness for all involved.  This time hopefully I won’t end up lost in Virginia.  I never actually made it to the world premiere, but this time there is one turn in the directions, so I should be okay.

Via Newsforge, The Register:

Microsoft has tendered its resignation from the consortium governing the OpenGL standard, signalling an intention to go it alone with its Direct3D graphics platform.

I have a feeling that the OpenGL and Open Source communities will loose on this, but the article is optimistic:

The sheer number of applications that require the presence of OpenGL suggests that Microsoft will continue to support it, even though its priorities lie elsewhere.

Time will tell.