How about a patent for using human skin as a power conduit and data bus.
I’m not making this up! http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5244766.html
Thanks to major DotNetNuke (DNN) fan, Jim Duffy, who is one of the goofy gaggle of DevTeach speakers, for pointing this out to me…
I have a pair of woodpeckers that like my suet. Usually I see either the male or the female but rarely both at the same time. THe female flies into my windows once in a while. Just now I watched as the female hung out on one post while the male got some suet and brought it over to her. Awwwwwwww. Very sweet. They are “Hairy Woodpeckers” (I’m sure based on the song which you can listen too from that link) although I did wonder if they may be “Yellow bellied sapsuckers”.
When I was at DevTeach, Rob Windsor who is the user group leader for the Toronto Visual Basic User Group, was very happy to show me his new Acer C110 tablet. This is the same as the one that I have and love. He told me he bought it because I am always talking/writing about how much I love mine.
I received my new desktop computer that will replace my “daily driver” last Thursday. I left Sat. a.m. for DevTeach in Montreal and returned last night. I have a lot of work to catch up on, of course. The box is still unopened. it will take some setting up. It has no 0/S on it. I have to flip my 160 GB drive into it and make it the master drive. I have to install the 2GB of RAM I bought at Crucial. I wonder when I’ll get to it?
Maybe I should have a pool where people can make guesses and the winner will get – ummm… hmm how about the 128 MB RAM that I will be extracting from the new p.c. and hanging on my christmas tree?
DevTeach was once again (and as expected) a wonderful conference. I had a great time hanging out with everyone and this time also got to see a little more of Montreal since my hubby was there for Saturday and Sunday. Marcie ended up hopping a train from Toronto early Monday morning and “crashing” the conference. With Rich back in Vermont, I was able to offer her the other half of my king-sized bed. She definitely had some fans in Montreal.
I really enjoyed doing my sessions. There was definitely a limited “market share” for Whidbey and Tablet SDK but it made the sessions that much more fun to have a small audience of about 10-15 people where I was able to adjust the talk to meet their needs. My tablet talk was preceded with a BSOD as I pressed the Fn & F5 key to push my screen to the projector. Luckily all was well by the time I was supposed to begin and my RC2 bits held up perfectly fine with VS2003 and even asn ASP.NET application.
So far my evals are great (all three of them …heh). But regardless of those, I know that in both sessions – especially the Tablet session – the attendees were really excited to be able to see some of this stuff live and have someone they could ask questions of.