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Dave asks for more details about the Microsoft.com Web Services release I discussed earlier. I can’t really give too many more details other than what’s in the MSDN announcement linked above, but the key is in the name, Microsoft.com Web Services (which I’ve corrected in my post
below).
This is a web service layer on Microsoft.com, [...]

Mark Pilgrim points to the 1.0 release of Microsoft.com Web Services. This is kind of a big deal at Microsoft.com (where I work), because it is a publicly-visible hook into a new publishing model for us. Of course, it inevitably raises some snags too; Mark does a good job of highlighting the problems with our [...]

September 2, 2002: Sonic Youth at Bumbershoot 2002. Still one of my favorite pieces of concert writing to date, in a sort of Hemingway-esque way: “The band went offstage, then came back on and played ‘Disconnection Notice.’ After the rest of the set, it felt somber and almost valedictory. This was the last set of [...]

Just got email from Dave. I was a lucky runner-up in the drawing for free passes to BloggerCon. It’s the weekend following a recruiting trip to MIT Sloan that I had already planned. Should be a fun session—and should be seriously great talking with these folks about blogs at home and at work.

Another genealogist found my weblog and wrote me to tell me that the autobiography of Rachel Jarrett’s brother-in-law, James Patton, is on line courtesy UNC at Documenting the American South. I look forward to reading the material and learning about this distant connection to my family.

After Jeff and Wilco had left the stage, we waited anxiously for the set to change over. While I was waiting, I heard the teenage girl behind me saying, “I’m going to call my mom as soon as a song comes on that she’ll recognize. I remember hearing her play all those albums when I [...]

After the New Pornographers show, I made my way around to the stadium where I had seen Sonic Youth at the 2002 Bumbershoot festival. This time the line was loose and moving at a brisk trot, so it wasn’t more than five minutes before I was inside and finding my way to the front. The [...]

I got back at 3:45, enough time to get in another enormous line for the New Pornographers. It was a difficult choice between this Vancouver indie supergroup, Daniel Lanois (who was playing the venue next door), or the Long Winters (who started a half hour later). But one thing made my decision easier: none of [...]

I arrived at Bumbershoot yesterday about twenty minutes before the gates opened. The line for the gate stretched over a city block. I picked up my ticket (quietly ruing the purchase of a four day pass, since I was only able to attend the last day of the festival) and joined the back of the [...]