Craig lays out a subtle but important different between thinking about XML as serialized types and thinking about XML that can be serialized to/from types. Nicely said, Craig.

In the "truth is stranger than fiction," category, Arnie does it. As I hail from the first state with a professional wrestler as it's governor, I think Cali got off easy. : )

Jason Clark digs further into C# generics, including the niftiness of constraints and why they're so important (nicely told, Jason!).

It seems likely that unlike most conferences since the bubble burst, the PDC will sell out. If you want to go, register soon.

I'm guessing that the American Teleservices Association doesn't even realize how two-faced it's being when they get upset at unwelcome calls. Oh well. : )

I can hear mothers around the world saying to their children, "See? I *told* you not to play with tigers!"

"The fruits of your success will be in direct ration to the honesty and sincerity of your own effort in keeping your own records, doing your own thinking and reaching your own conclusions." Jesse Livermore wrote these words in "How to Trade in Stocks," but they apply widely, I think.

Earlier this week, some low-life stole the source code for the soon to be released Half-Life 2 and then posted it. Now, I'm a huge Half-Life fan (I've played all the installments of Half-Life twice) and so I've been anxiously looking forward to HF2. But even if I hated HF, I'd still feel the same. If folks steal and redistribute IP of any kind, whether it's words, code, art, music, videos, etc, nobody will be able to afford to produce it anymore! And it's not like music or video, where the RIAA and theaters have done their level best to shear us at ever opportunity; s/w is affordable and convenient to consume! I'm all for "try before you buy," but "steal and redistribute" just means that we won't get new media to consume in the future. There's no excuse for this kind of behavior. DISCLAIMER: I'm an employee of Microsoft, Corp. but the opinions expressed on this web site are my own and in no way reflect the opinions of my employer.