Book: Children of Hurin

Came out yesterday and there was a nice piece on the radio about the preparing of this book, Children of Hurin Originally written by the, "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien.

"There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.

In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves..." - Official Tolkien Website

Currently #2 on Amazon's sales list!

Dispatch

One of the missing features of Visual Studio 2005 is the ability to take a project and deploy it to a ftp-site. I had created some scripts in the past to do this and they worked pretty well but they required several other pieces of software to be installed and they were very fragile. Now along comes Dispatch. Currently in beta this is a plug-in for Visual Studio that simplifies the whole process. With almost point and click ease of use one can now deploy their VS solution. One feature I wish they had is the ability to support a dev-staging-release setup that many web-sites have but hopefully this will be in the final version. Please check it out.

Drobo: Easy to use mirroring

Drobo, the world's first storage robot!.

Wow - I've never seen an article that is SO WRONG!

I know the Internet has some questionable information, but this article is just completely 100% wrong. Right from the start the history of Photoshop is completely wrong! How can such crap be published? Why do people make up this sh$%!

Some excellent DVDs recently

Here are some excellent 'story' based DVDs:

1) Lady In the Water
2) The Illusionist
3) The Prestige

WPF Books

Having looked at Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (aka: WPF) recently here's 3 books [in order of preference] I can suggest looking at. Please note the 3rd book by O'Reilly has examples that seem to be outdated and therefore I don't recommend it:


See also the Amazon List Mania.

Future of [Movie] Posters

There's so much new technology these days it's amazing. Here's just another example: 3D Posters.