There are a lot of wonderful swimming holes in Vermont thanks to the Green Mountain range and lots of creeks and streams running down from them. Some of these swimming holes, are just gentle tubs along a stream. Others are in gorges. There is a popular spot called Huntington Gorge where many people have died over the years. They get caught in water that, due to the topography of the gorge, can be like a turbine. There is another extremely popular spot called the Bolton potholes which is not so notorious. I lived up the road from them when I first moved to Vermont. On Saturday, a young man who would have turned 20 on Sunday, drowned in the Bolton Potholes. He jumped in to a spot and due to the heavy rains which creates strong currents coming down the moutains, got held under the water. It took 60 rescue workers and 2 days to retrieve his body. I don’t know this kid or his family. I just read about it in the local paper. But it is just too heartbreaking, even with all of the horrors going on in the wider world around us. It’s much more personal.
Hacked via browser – it could happen to me, it could happen to you
NOT a Digital Signature
Since I have found myself explaining more than once that a digital signature is NOT a jpeg of your signature, I decided to just include this slide in my Web Services Security for Dummies talk at ASPConnections.
That image was pretty easy to find on the web…so I guess it’s okay to use it. 😉
WSE2 Security – looking a little deeper
I went from looking at the WS-Security Spec to the XML Signature Spec and the XML Encryption Spec today. Interesting stuff!
Cool Cool Cool Tablet PC Feature
I just think being able to take gobs of handwritten notes in Journal and then SEARCH them for specific words is pretty darned cool.
And…you they can be upsidedown or sideways, even.
Stick your finger right here….
Fingerprint security on new Microsoft keyboards! (via whatisnew.com)
but somehow it made me think of this post…
Another weblogs.asp.net blogger strikes out on his own
Dave Burke has moved his blog to his own website http://dbvt.com/blog/ after over a year of participating in weblogs.asp.net. I have really enjoyed Dave’s post (well, Dave’s a great and fun guy all around) so I highly recommend following him to his new dotnetnuke/nGallery/.Text combo site.
ROFL: Casey and gmail
Casey’s got gmail invites. He’s not giving them away. He started fantasizing about the repercussions. My neighbors heard me laughing (well probably they did) when I read this part after he imagines running out of invites and his mom doesn’t get one:
mom: you ingrate blah 9 months blah
Another great WSE2 book!
Thanks to Jason Salas (and Glenn Munlawin at APress) I have in my hands Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C# Using the Web services Enhancements 2.0 by Jeffrey Hasan.
So far I just opened it up randomly and read what was on that random page and learned something new already.
I will definitely be cruising through this book shortly.
Hurricanes, the Red Cross and .NET
A connection? Yes. Scott Lock, who runs the www.caparea.net user group in the D.C. area is the man behind the American Red Cross’s e-commerce donation system. Everytime there is *bad* stuff going on, Scott is on-call 24×7 just in case – since they want to make sure that nothing gets in the way of people making donations. The current system will soon be replaced by a .net app by the way.
One thing I know these hurricanes are wiping out the ACR’s funds and they can always use more help. It’s quick and easy and painless.
When I hear of the DNC and RNC spending 100’s of millions of dollars on adverstising, it makes me sick.
I think that a new law should be instituted that for every dollar spent on political adversting, one dollar should be put into a charity of the same locality. So if it’s a national campaign – give to a national charity, like the Red Cross. A state campaign? Give to that a state-wide charity in that state. A local campaign? Give to the local homeless shelter or the local library or SOMETHING.