Scott Hanselman

I know that most of you, especially Mike Gunderloy, have been waiting with bated breath for the arrival of my Geek (Dork) Watch. :) Certainly it should have arrived yesterday, you say?  No no. 

Status: Exception Tracking Number: 1Z ------------------ Service Type: NEXT DAY AIR SAVER Package Progress: Date Time Location Activity Jan 9, 2004 8:00 A.M. SEATTLE, WA, US ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS DELAY 7:55 A.M. SEATTLE, WA, US DEPARTURE SCAN 6:00 A.M. SEATTLE, WA, US ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS DELAY 5:49 A.M. SEATTLE, WA, US ARRIVAL SCAN 4:20 A.M. LOUISVILLE, KY, US DEPARTURE SCAN 2:45 A.M. PORTLAND, OR, US ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS DELAY 12:11 A.M. LOUISVILLE, KY, US ARRIVAL SCAN Jan 8, 2004 9:20 P.M. DALLAS/FT. WORTH A/P, TX, US DEPARTURE SCAN 7:35 P.M. DALLAS/FT. WORTH A/P, TX, US ORIGIN SCAN

You know what the real irony of this is?  If I had the watch NOW, I'd have been instantly notified of this delay... ;)

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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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Ah...I forgot, I'll be speaking in NYC at the New York City .NET Users Group next week on Jan 15th.  Its at Microsoft at 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - between 51st/52nd Sts.) on the 6th floor. 

I'll be giving my infamous:

Zen and the Art of Web Services

I'll talk a little about the ramifications Indigo and WSDL 2.0, but really, if you're doing Web Services TODAY you'll need to know about the WS-I and the basics.  So, we'll probably start with a historical view starting with the Primordial Ooze and working up to that afternoon.  My talks are very interactive, much like Nickelodeon so even if you're a Web Services Pro, you'll still have fun.

Should be fun, please stop by!

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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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!

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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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.

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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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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