In general, I love Eric Sink, so it’s a surprise when there’s something he’s written that I haven’t seen. In particular, at the bottom of his Geek Guantlet (which is nice all by itself), there’s an addendum called Top Eight List: Clues that You Might be a Geek. My favorite:

“You know at least one person whose computer has less RAM than your video card.”

: )

I have to say that my favorite posts from Rory are his terribly drawn comics. This is made me laugh out loud (wait for the punchline : ).

MS’s official word on what happened with the illegal source code posting and what we're doing about it.

If you don't already know the basics of .NET's Code Access Security model, you shouldn’t wait any longer. Not only is CAS key to No-Touch Deployment today, but it's key to ClickOnce deployment in Whidbey, which will also be a huge part of the Longhorn deployment story tomorrow (or maybe the day after tomorrow : ).

Kenny Lim posted an article about Visual Trees in Avalon that was down right inspirational. In fact, I spent all morning building a little app that will dump the <VisualTree> portion of a <Style> so that when you're customizing the visual tree of an existing control, you have some place from which to start. As soon as I figure out how to get property aliasing and data binding info at run-time, I'll post my app for real but the current version is available here for the adventurous.

Of course, I love the idea: software that fixes its own problems. However, it sounds like something from science fiction requiring machines with human-like intelligense monitoring and fixing themselves. Has anyone used IBM’s autonomic computing toolkit? Does it work?

There are two kinds of geeks:

1. Geeks that try to hide it
2. Geeks that embrace it

Since it became obvious very early to me that geeks of the #2 sort find it nearly impossible to get girls, I learned in college to hide my geekness in mixed company (mostly : ). For example, I absolutely have to have a cell phone small enough for my front pocket because the Batman utility belt look just doesn’t say “breed with me.”

On the other hand, geeks of the #2 sort are the ones that keep a Star Trek convention going every weekend of the year somewhere on the planet, fill comic book conventions and, apparently, teach physics based on why Krypton just *had* to explode. You gotta respect someone that’s willing to embrace their true inner self to the point of risking their ability to even practice contributing to the genepool…

If you care about Longhorn, start first with Whidbey. According to Scott Guthrie, the first Whidbey beta will be available in June.

[via Kent Sharkey]