Interesting phrase...

Feb 27, 2003 1 min.

Just heard an advertisement on the radio for the Foo Fighters and it contained this quote “The world’s best American rock band…” What does that mean? Don’t “world’s best” and “American” clash a little there? Wouldn’t “Best American Rock Band” be a better phrase? This isn’t a shot at the band at all (or American rock bands, if that is a category of music at all), I like their music; I’m just mocking the phrasing… are there are bands that are classified as “American rock bands” that aren’t from America?

There goes that column idea...

Feb 26, 2003 3 min.

Doesn’t anyone use static web pages anymore? I was playing around with some code, just doing a quick prototype of an app for my Coding4Fun column and (inspired by the cool and useful PAINT tool) I decided to create an app that would check for changes to a website and give you a little quick-launch menu of updated sites on your system tray (who couldn’t use one more icon there?). I thought it would be cool to show how to use the HTTP If-Modified-Since request header combined with the Last-Modified response header to show how quick and easy it is to check for new content using the System.

A Blog? What was I thinking?

Feb 26, 2003 1 min.

I think I have to blame Kent Sharkey for this; he put up his blog and it has been nagging at my mind for days now… “I should have a blog”, “hey I think I have something to say”… but I couldn’t decide on the implementation details… should I build my own blog tool, use a site like http://blogger.com, or radio.userland? Finally I found http://dotnetweblogs.com and I realized I was set… lots of .