For years, we've hoped to see live giant squid. Dead specimens wash up on beaches or get caught in nets every now and then, but until now, no one has ever seen a live giant squid. A team of researchers went looking and managed to find 14 baby giant squid. They then decided to capture the squid, which, unsuprisingly, ended with the deaths of all 14 babies within hours.
Yay for science.
After spending so much time telling us how wonderful SOAP is because it can use HTTP as a transport protocol, Microsoft are now convinced that HTTP isn't the way of the future. According to Don Box, a developer for .NET, HTTP is no good for RPC and P2P services.
Well, duh. It isn't exactly news that the HyperText Transfer Protocol is only really good for transferring hypertext.
My brother, Joel, hasn't been well for some time now, and today it was confirmed that he has Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Although this is one of the easier types of cancer to treat and has a very high survival rate, it's something we'd all much rather he didn't have to go through.
I'm sure he would appreciate your thoughts, well wishes and crossed fingers.
So this is what happens when IM bots meet. It's all so romantic.
Do you have trouble understanding Einstein's Theory of Relativity because of all those nasty big words? Well, worry no longer, my friend. Someone with way too much spare time has written Einstein's Theory of Relativity in words of four letters or less. And they say the Internet isn't useful.
As a side note, I tried to write this post using words of four letters or less. It's a lot harder than it sounds.
I have so many things I could say about this wacky lobster guy, but I'll just let you read the article and make up your own mind. Art, or mental patient?