I can't listen to Goldfrapp, The Ting Tings, and The Scissor Sisters exclusively. Goldfrapp's art, in particular, always absorbs my concentration. So I'm always on the lookout for stuff to have in the background. A few weeks ago, I had Escovedo's...

I recently had a case where a thread running under one identity would process data periodically provided by a thread running under a different identity. There are lots of ways of accomplishing this, but the priority for me was to do it in such a way that...

... is a book by Tomas Petricek and Jon Skeet. It's terrific. It succeeds not just as an introduction to functional programming and F#, but also as a simply excellent programming text. The reason it is superior is that the authors strived to teach...

Everyone. RIP Gerry Rafferty. Done too soon.

... Once I added a new location, set that as my Live Tile location, confirmed Live Tile update, and then deleted that location and set my original one as the Live Tile location. Phew.

... which explains why I find myself surprised that it has actually been clear and freezing in Sammamish, WA, for the past several days, rather than rainy and 7 Celcius as my phone has led me to expect.

Of the very many people I know who have Windows Phones, all of them except one opted for the Samsung Focus. The odd person out happens to be me, who chose the LQ Quantum. My choice was simple. The Quantum is the one with the hardware QWERTY keyboard...

Windows Phones, by definition, are equipped with an accelerometer for detecting the physical orientation of the device. Applications can subscribe to notifications from the operating system of orientation changes and adjust their layouts accordingly....