As a new dad, I’ve got the requisite digital camera and digital camcorder. So I’ve taken a ton of photos and shot some video, which I shareonline. But it’s nice to have physical copies of the photos for albums, so I bought a new HP 5550 DeskJet printer. I also sprung for the high quality photo paper and the Photo InkJet Cartridge that turns the 4 color printer into a 6 color photo printer. This printer was the PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice, and after seeing the output, I completely agree. I used to do photo touchup and color correction for a publishing company, and this printer completely blows me away.

Now all I need is a DVD burner to go with my firewire card, 80GB hard drive and Windows Movie Maker.

I finally got around to updating my Web.SkinUI project page. I’ve posted a slightly updated version of the code that allows DB connection strings to be specified in the web.config file. I’ve also posted the code (without docs) from the follow-up article that compiles the skinned pages on request, just like WebForms do. Enjoy.

Does anyone know of predefined conditional compilation directives for C#? I know VS.NET creates “DEBUG” and “TRACE”, but I was wondering if there’s a built-in version conditional? I want to write something like:

#if CLRv1.1
  //...CLR v1.1 specific code...
#else
  //...CLR v1.0 specific code...
#endif

I’ve been blogging with Front Page as my front end, but it looks like I’m going to have to investigate InfoPath. As .NET blogging tools grow up, I might need to move my site onto ASPNetWeblog or BlogX. I wonder how well these tools support customization. I’ve obviously got more than just blog up on this site.