Addison Wesley is shipping me a free copy of "Understanding Windows Cardspace" by Vittorio, Garret and Caleb. What could be better than THAT???
Really looking forward to this one and hoping it will answer some of the more obscure questions I’ve encountered in my Cardspace Explorations.
In related news, my Cardspace STS and Managed Card Test Harness [LINK] is in the mix of RPs and IdPs currently being tested as part of the latest OSIS interop. Many thanks to Mike Jones [LINK] for including me on this. The list of …

Today I bought an Arduino [LINK]

 and "The Black Swan" [LINK]

I am wrapping up Eric Clapton’s Autobiography [LINK], an overall enlightening and good read.

I am now on the lookout for about 100 diffuse (not water clear) RGB LEDs and some 8bit shift register chips.
 
I guess you’d say my interests are fairly random.

Oh the irony of twittering. Today I noticed in my Facebook feed someone (who shall remain nameless) had updated their status to "Person X has only 3 hours to prepare an important presentation".
If you’ve only 3 hours, why in the world waste time "Twit"-tering your status?

The other day, whilst watching an episode of Ninja Warrior, I made mention that the entire commentary is in Japanese, except for a few English words thrown in. Typically the name of the obstacle the contestant is on, e.g. "Spider Walk" or "Pipe Slider". My brother commented that in Japan, they don’t have a lot of Japanese words for newly invented things, e.g. the word for "Computer" is Computer.
This made no sense as I think Spiders have been around for a while, and I’m fairly certain folks can Walk …