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Friday, July 12, 2002
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Explosion in D.C..
A friend who lives in Virginia and works out of the D.C. Microsoft Consulting office told me that there was an explosion near the office building. Details are pretty sketchy right now, but MSNBC has a story on it that will be expanded, I'm sure.
[The .NET Guy]
MSNBC says the bomb squad showed up after the blast. Let's see how this one plays out...
5:06:13 PM 
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UDDI worthless for public use?
I think the core flaw of UDDI is that there is nothing worth registering in it. The whole point of having a central registry is like that of the yellow pages. Your kitchen sink leaks, you look up a plumber, call him and he comes and fixes it. The UDDI equivalent for this is: Your kitchen sink leaks, you look up somebody who might be someone like a plumber but you really don't know what to look for, you call him and he's going to bring all the wrong wrenches.
[Clemens Vasters]
12:44:06 PM
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Microsoft Delivers Updated SOAP Toolkit.
"Microsoft Wednesday released a new version of its Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) toolkit, an add-on that helps developers build Web services using its Visual Studio development tool. Microsoft's SOAP toolkit 3.0 includes support for DIME (Direct Internet Message Encapsulation) and WS-Attachments, both of which define how to package binary data up with SOAP messages."
[www.activewin.com]
[sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]
11:23:34 AM
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WTC 2002.
Very ambitious and great looking plans for the replacement for the World Trade Center towers, dubbed The World Trace Center 2002. Requires Flash 6 (and it didn't seem happy to work with Mozilla here, so you may need to revert to IE).
[The .NET Guy]
Is this for real? Check out this snippet from the "Safety" section:
Our Cyber City will have a State of the Art External Security System which at this stage evolves around "Sound Waves" which has the capacity at a specific frequency to repel flying objects up to a five mile circumference.
9:57:11 AM
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Surveying the damage
I'll admit it -- I'm deathly afraid of bees and wasps. So I was very disappointed to learn the buggers (wasps I believe) made a nice nest in my hose reel -- you know, that neat little gadget used to quickly move the garden hose around the yard. My wife, the kids and I have avoided going near the hose reel for a number of weeks because of this (I even refrain from moving it because I don't want to upset the wasps).
They've also built a decent sized nest inside the exhaust for my fireplace. Our house doesn't have a chimney. Instead, we have a "heatilator" which kind of sticks out from the back of the house and the heat is discharged through some standard metal tubing (similar to the heat ducts in a house). Anyway, they found an opening in some wire mesh that surrounds the tubing. Luckily, they can't get in the house from this location, but they do get a pretty much predator free zone from which to build their little kingdom.
Until now!
9:21:59 AM
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