Benjamin Mitchell points to a thoughtful article by Gregor Hohpe on keeping some perspective on the WS-Specs as well as leveraging all of the intelligence that has gone into creating them to at least consider as a design checklist. Benjamin also highlights Gregor’s point that web services are not always the answer to a problem that you think they will solve.

As I get deeper into trying to sort out WS Specs and WSE, all of this input is really helpful.

The Acer got SP2’d when I cleaned it up to return to mhy client. I am going to install some of their custom software on it just to see how things go.

My Compaq EVO which I use solely for Whidbey work just got SP2’d and yes, Whidbey still opens up <g>

I have yet to do my Toshiba which is onthe last beta already although I’m a little more hesitant as I’m doingn some of my real development on this tablet.

Then of course is my real development box – my money maker. I’m just not emotionally ready to do it yet.

Last will be Rich’s computer, which is still on Win2000 because we have to go buy a new scanner first (that hpscanjet 5 won’t work on winxp)

I first spotted it via Ali’s blog. Looked at the picture – it’s pretty pretty pretty and my first question was – so is it a tablet? Sure looks like one. Especially considering there is no keyboard in the pretty picture. But alas. It’s just a pretty computer. Evan Feldman totally cracked me up in his post about it.

Though I have to say the dvd drive is pretty cool! I currently don’t have a dvd drive on my Toshiba tablet because it doesn’t come as part of the package that I got.

The funny thing is they market it like a big ipod. All the chatter on the page is about storing music and watching movies and surfing the web. Nothing about using applications.

Very odd. But very stylish, indeed.