Thanks to Werner for linking to the Flick Filosopher. I liked the analysis of The Passion of the Christ and the comparison Monty Python’s Life of Brian. I especially liked her Best & Worst Of 2003 article as well. An you have got to respect anyone who has “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension” at the top of their list of 100 comfort movies. Only downer – no RSS feed. <sigh>

The other movie review site I read regularly is Mr. Cranky. I’m a big fan of his unique comments on bad movies such as ” I have never come closer to tearing my own penis off and throwing it at the screen while watching a movie” (Laura Croft 2) “Chris Klein is like Keanu Reeves without any talent…Frankly, I have a hard time even comprehending that sentence and its terrible implications.” (Rollerball) and “This film caused the kind of pain I’d normally associate with being shot through the thigh by a rusty nail from a high-powered nail gun” (Saving Silverman). Again, no RSS feed. <double sigh>

I subscribed to the brand-new MSDN Subscriber Downloads RSS feed so I could stay up to date on the cutting edge technologies being shipped to the MSDN subscribers. So imagine my surprise when I see the following:

Microsoft Bob 1.0a was posted to MSDN Subscriber Downloads on March 31, 2004.

Michael has posted a great list of modelling links on his blog. I hadn’t realized Ramesh Rajagopal was blogging. Ramesh works on the class designer I blogged about last week.

Michael also has links to MSFT’s Dynamic Systems Initative. Since I came from the developer camp, I usually focus on application architecture. DSI is going to be crititcal to infrastructure architecture. We have a section on infrastructure architecture on the Architecture Center that includes more info on DSI.

Update: Michael linked to a two partinterview with Keith about the Whidbey modelling tools. Highly recommended.

I rewrote the script that I blogged about over the weekend to convert shorten files to WMA 9 lossless format. You’ve got to have the shorten utility on the path and have Windows Media 9 Encoder installed.

Download the SHN2WMA script.

BTW, I claimed that the WMA lossless format was half the size of shorten’s format. Turns out that the ratio varies widely. For the concerts I’ve converted, I’ve seen as reduction percentage between WMA and shorten be as high as 55% and as low as 12%.

I know a bunch of people are on campus today for the MVP summit. I’m going to try and hang out as much as I can, but you can also come see me. I’m in Building 22 (close to 40/41 and 42/43/44 where a lot of the developer division is). Send me email, call me at (425)705-6045 or just stop by my office 22/2061.