An ongoing Introduction to MSIL

Just stumbled across this excellent Introduction to MSIL by Kenny Kerr. It kinda' makes my brain hurt... but in a good way.

[Listening to: Static-X - Cold]

Your personality summarized in 26 links.

An intriguing meme found on KC Lemson's blog. lear the address bar in your browser, type in every letter of the alphabet, and list out what is the first URL on the history list. No cheating now...

A - http://www.adtmag.com/blogs/devcentral/ - Developer Central Blog.
B - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml - 20th Anniversary edition of the HitchHiker Adventure Game.
C - http://c3dsp.westjet.com/internet/sky/checkFlights.cgi - Checking flights on WestJet airlines.
D - http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/ - Picked up this link from some blog. Not into .NET CF so didn't subscribe.
E - http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/ibook.html - bad hardware workaround courtesy of TheDailyWTF.com.
F - http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/03-2004/msg00545.html - Oracle news group.
G - http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/0017233&from=rss - /. post on Acclaim's auction.
H - http://www.hack.net/ - Got this from some blogs. Didn't work in Opera. Didn't really try either.
I - http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200412/df20041210.jpg - Cool Darth Santa comic.
J - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/survey.html - Trying to win a resharper license.
K - http://www.kk.org/cooltools/... - Cool Tools
L - http://www.latticesoft.com/Products/LatticeDataMapper.aspx - Persistance Framework for .NET
M - Corporate webmail.
N - http://www.networklifemag.com/ - Another link from another blog. Not subscribed.
O - http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/sightings/index.html - Duct Tape Rules!
P - http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2004/12/01/2598.aspx - Paul Vick's article on Black Hole projects.
Q - Nothing.
R - http://reviews.cnet.com/... - C|Net product alert page on the ultimate gaming PC.
S - http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/15/0226220&from=rss - /. article on LEGO logic gates.
T - http://tahiti.oracle.com/ - Still looking for Oracle info.
U - http://www.ultimateears.com/ - High end in-the-ear headphones.
V - http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=6099 - Way cool commercial from Toyota - Bugger!
W - http://www.westjet.com/ - Still looking for that flight too.
X - Nothing.
Y - Nothing.
Z - Nothing.

[Listening to: Enya - Athair Ar Neamh]

Cheapskate alert: Free XSLT1.0/XSLT2.0 and XQuery1.0 Processors for Windows

Altova has put together a collection of free tools for the Xml/Xslt/XQuery folks out there. Found via Oleg Tkachenko. WooHoo!

[Listening to: Disturbed - God of the Mind]

XmlPreCompiler / XmlSerializerPreCompiler

Like most people I have struggled too often with XmlSerializer. Mathew Nolton wrote a UI wrapper around Chris Sells'
XmlSerializerPreCompiler called XmlPreCompiler. This should help some.

[Listening to: Faster Pussycat - Slip of the Tongue]