Looks like the Opera browser is 15 today. Go and check out their site for a throwback on how the web looked like 10-15 years ago. It's almost friggin amazing how much the web evolved...

  This is a post long overdue. I regularly get mail about DataBlock's future so i’m happy to say that (remaining bugs aside) …folks stick a fork in it cause it’s done.  I consider that i have achieved with DataBlock what i set out to do : a small, lean, separation of concerns enforced, easy to deploy, simple API  O/RM. The only thing that is missing now would be LINQ integration (unfortunately that’s a pretty big undertaking and i don’t really have time for this now….at least as a open source. If somebody is interested to sponsor this then contact me).

  So  i guess it’s safe to say that, while bugs will be fixed, no new features will be added.  A related project that i am planning is adding DataBlock business objects like API to Entity Framework. But that’s another story…

I have became pretty interested in game development lately (as a hobby)  and so i've started learning XNA. The first step was to read "Learn XNA 3.0" which is a pretty good book on the subject (although the XNA API could have been explained a little more thoroughly).