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I'll be in Vegas on Monday for an up-and-back-in-one-day trip to CAWorld for a Web Services Panel - ostensibly acting in Prashant's stead, no doubt everyone is down at the Microsoft Global Briefing in Hotleans.  But alas, for me, next stop is the Mandalay Bay to talk about challenges in making Web Services happen.

Just saw LxG.  Pretty awesome if you dig that (give or take 40 years) period in literary history.  They created a pretty amazing fantasy world with advanced (re: 1930s) technology blowing away the people of 1899.  The well-read will dig it, but it's got enough action for kids who haven't read The Picture of Dorian Gray.

One interesting linguistic note: In the final scene in Kenya, the Witch Doctor is actually chanting in Zulu (That's SOUTH AFRICA, not Kenyan kiSwahili, and don't get me started on how F'ed up Hollywood treats of little details like this...) and he's saying vuka (voo-ga) which means "Wake up!"

From Patrick Hynds (repro in link above):

If you try to allocate an array with a size range between 0x027fefbd and 0x027fffec, the framework throws exceptions. This range corresponds to memory block of little under 40MB. But if allocate a buffer smaller than or larger than this range, then every thing is fine. So the following call will fail.

Byte[] test = new Byte[0x027ffc22];

It looks like there are different algorithms for big memory block allocation. Is there something special about this range?  Anyone?  Note: I'm running this on a box with 512megs.  Does this behave different on a box with more or less?

UPDATE: Until someone gives an good explaination, Dejan has added this to the .NET Bugs Registry...

Very soon my friends.  I'm on a MiniMed 508 and have been for 3+ years (spent the first 7 using shots up to 6 times a day).  I'm digging this new Paradigm 512...How do I get one???  It's such a great (and obvious) idea, it just might work!  It's not implanted, it's not automatic, but it's better that what we have now.  The real question is, how accurate can its suggestions be? 

It's quite a clever thing.  The Blood Glucose Meter "talks" to the pump wirelessly and informs it of your current BG.  Hopefully this happen totally automatically, it would be a shame if you had to "tell" the meter with some extra step/button press.

The meter looks a lot like an upside-down Ultra.  I'm not too excited about switching away from my beloved UltraSmart, but for wireless, I think I can be convinced. :)

Be sure to take a look at the Paradigm's Users Guide.  Often User's Guides can tell you more than the polished press sites will.

A few thoughts that we open the second day of the XmlDevCon or "SellsConIV." 

• I wonder how many people here seriously debated wearing the conference T-Shirt we were given on Day 1...I thought about wearing it just because it was clean!
• Seems to me that in some way Necho is being created as a "routing" protocol...to route around Dave Winer.  Note that many years ago the real Necho was an Egyptian Lord whose goal was to reach Haran to assist the Assyrians who were under seige by Nebuchadnezzar.  Are we under seige by a Babylonian King?
• Looks like Sam Ruby can't make it to Portland.  That's a damn shame, he will be missed.  Consequently the Amazon.com fellow's VERY interesting session has been extended to include more technical details.  An unfortunate tradeoff, but the nice thing about a SellsCon is that any speaker can take their talk as deep as you'd like.