Whoops! It turns out that I forgot to change my DNS hosting after my move of my domain to my new registrar. It turns out that the new guys don’t actually do DNS hosting (at least, not in an obvious way), which is astounding for a company in the domain name business. Anyway, thanks to the free DNS hosting provided by zoneedit.com, we’re back up and running.
You’d think I’d have remembered to fix this, since I used to run a company that sold DNS hosting. Sigh…
A mere hour after I ran across Don Burn’s new blog, I read on the PCAUSA network driver development mailing list that Thomas Divine has started blogging again. For those that don’t know Thomas: as nearly as I can tell, he knows everything that is to be known about NDIS. If you do network driver development, you’ve surely benefitted from his www.ndis.com site.
*RSS reader grows by one more blog*
I just ran across Don Burn’s new(ish) WDK-focused, at http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr. Don is a longtime contributor to the community and I like the direction he’s gone with his first few posts.
In addition to the basic driver dev stuff, he’s getting into some important higher-level stuff like source control and using undocumented features. I bet I could have guessed his opinion on both topics before reading, though. 
*Added to my RSS reader*
I’ve begun getting a ton of blog spam again, so I had to turn moderation back on. So, if you don’t see your comment for a few minutes (or days?), don’t despair, and as soon as comment spam is resolved again, I’ll turn it back off.
On the upside, it’s really very nice, flattering, complimentary spam. Way better than e-mail spam, which generally seems to indicate that I have some sort of problem or other.
I’ve had a really busy few weeks since the new year and have been slow at posting lately. But I guess you knew that.
Wordpress has been upgraded to 2.1, so please let me know if you have trouble with the site. I had to manually fix up the sidebar, since the updates conflicted. Maybe it’s time to pick out a new theme…
I also have been having some trouble lately with Linode, although I’m hesitant to blame it solely on them. My node keeps mysteriously spinning out of control once every two months, and response time has been known to really suck on occasion. I’m thinking of moving to MediaTemple or 1and1. When I get around to it. At any rate, sorry about the recent outage.
I plan on revealing my prediction soon. Watch this space!
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Totally off topic, I’ve told several people over the last couple of days about some of the podcasts I listen to regularly. Here are three of my favorites.
Information Asymmetryto the philosophy of law.
In addition, the SCOTUS blog has several interesting episodes up, and looks like a promising addition to my list. The Nina Totenberg interview, in particular, was quite good.
Any recommendations? I must admit that I am, in general, disappointed with the quality of most of the tech-related podcasts I’ve tried (with Arrington as a notable exception). I might try to remedy that myself someday; who knows.
Joel Spolsky is a bright guy. His latest blog posting about user interface design, Choices = Headaches (should that be == instead?), makes a case that I’ve been rolling around internally for our Next Big Product. Simplisticly: sometimes too many choices are worse than you’d think.
The really amazing part is that he references some research done by Barry Schwartz, a professor at Swarthmore College. Amazingly enough, I just listened to a podcast of one of his lectures on this topic this week: Too Many Choices: Who Suffers and Why. It’s really in interesting lecture, and worth an hour of anyone’s time who is tasked with product design.
I continue to be amazed at how the Blogosphere™ cross-links itself in fascinating ways.
I’m changing over my DDK tag to WDK going forward, with a little bit of a transition period until I get tired of clicking the extra checkbox. I know I have a lot of subscribers to the DDK tag as its own feed, so this is official notice that DDK is now going to be used for downlevel-only posts.
Also, while I’m at it, and since the US holiday of Thanksgiving is approaching, I’d like to send out a thank-you to all of my readers. This blog’s traffic has multiplied again over the past year, and I really enjoy knowing that there are people out there that find this stuff as interesting as I do.
Now back to regularly scheduled programming.
I’ve been meaning to post this for days but I keep forgetting. Alex Ionescu, who is another one of those guys that just seems to know way more than one person should be allowed to know about Windows internals, has started blogging (again).
He’s got a good user-mode debugging series posted, and if I know Alex, there’s plenty more good stuff still to come.
Welcome to the blogosphere, Alex.