<writingBreak> I occasionally go up to google and see what I get when I search on my name . Over the course of history (okay, over the course of the last 5 or 6 years) I've held my own for the most part at the top of the “Matt Powell”...

Opaque or Binary Data in a Web service is like transporting action figures on a Lego train. More soon...

The local NPR affiliate, KUOW, featured Simon Winchester, the author of The Meaning of Everything , on its daily Weekday show today. The subtitle of the book is “The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.“ I can waste hours flipping through...

I was scheduled to be OOF today and tomorrow in training. I love good training. Quite often you come back from good training revitalized with a new outlook concerning certain parts of your life and your job. We had to cancel the training I was scheduled...

In getting feedback on my proposed bloglist page on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Danny Ayers mentioned that I had an equivalent signal to noise ratio as Sam Ruby and yet I am considering dropping Sam from the list. I don't see that combining...

I want to thank everyone for the feedback on my proposed listing of the MSDN Web Services Developer Center blog page. There are definitely some great suggesitons--but now the list I have is too long so I'm going to have to do some cutting. Apologies to...