Scott Hanselman

I'll be at VSLive!/ASPLive! again this year!  It's always such an interesting crowed at the Live! events.  Again ASPLive! is organized by the very cool and clever Chris Kinsman. (who also suffers from the same Google Problem I do - maybe there's a OTC cream available?)

It's a great Agenda in SFO this year with Ken Getz, Andrew Brust, Paul Sheriff, with Don Box Keynoting the first day. 

If you're in town, come hang out with me on Thursday night!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Can someone explain to me why in the name of all that is Google does a search for Scott Hanselman (even via Google Dance) that my LONG ABANDONED Radio Weblog shows up first?  For crying out loud, my posted-to-twice Longhorn Blog is second!  Sigh.  I'll need to keep paying Dave until I figure this out.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I noticed that just the HTML on my home page was over 100K, so I turned HttpCompression on with the Blowery HttpCompression Module:

 <configSections> 
  <sectionGroup name="blowery.web">
   <section name="httpCompressionModule" type="blowery.Web.HttpModules.HttpCompressionModuleSectionHandler, HttpCompressionModule"/>
  </sectionGroup>
 </configSections>
 <blowery.web>
  <httpCompressionModule preferredAlgorithm="gzip" compressionLevel="high"/>
 </blowery.web>
<system.web>

However, there's a series of majorly icky bugs in most versions of IE and a few of them are JUST RIDICULOUS. It's bitten me before, so as much as I support companies like XCompress (XCache) and HttpZip and the whole concept of HttpCompression, I'm a little wary.  Let me know if you have a problem.  Of course, if you can't read this, you have a problem. :)

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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One of the reasons I want Wrist.NET to succeed is my belief that the only jewelry (stuff you wear all the time) that will be worn all the time in my lifetime is watches, rings and to some degree, necklaces.   Perhaps will see some displays in glasses but that's 10 years+ out and iffy at best.  A watch is a perfect size to provide me with more than just the time, and I don't carry my phone with me everywhere. 

However, a comment in my last post about the watch said that it was too much of a 'gadget' and possibly too large. He said:

"That's why I'm more interested in the smartphones or maybe even some wearables."

I'm not sure about this whole vagueness of wearables.  I'm not sure there's as much of a market for a "Flava Flav" style SPOT device, do you? 

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Some news for me and the three other dorks ;) that will be buying one of these watches.  Fossil just sent out their opt-in email to announce the availability of their watches on the Wrist.NET MSN Direct Platform.  Here's the Microsoft Press Release and the MSN Direct Site.

There's a great PDF from the CeBIT conference here.

Here's some interesting details about the hardware:

• 28 MHz ARM7 Baseband processor
• 512 Kb ROM, 384 Kb RAM
• FM Radio Receiver: 12 Kb/s data rate
• Cool internal hardware diagram from National Semiconductor:
  

Of course, I'm having MINE overnighted.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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