Scott Hanselman: Musings

Switching [all] Providers...

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:21:38 GMT

Well, my Hanselman.com email (as well as for all my Hanselman relatives) has been down with DNS and dumb problems since Friday, so it's official. I'm switching. I'm switching to ORCSWeb. I'll move all my domains there, including www.hanselman.com, www.diabeticbooks.com, www.glucopilot.com and www.computerzen.com. Expect some weird DNS and silliness over the next few days, possibly this week. I'm a huge believer in the permalink, so if I do it right, everything will work as before.

After the dust has settled, I'll likely move from Radio to DasBlog.

Linux/J2EE causes colon cancer?

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:13:19 GMT

Wow...good thing I'm covered! ;)

A Forrester research project, funded by Microsoft inc., has determined that developing software using a Linux/J2EE development environment increases a developer's risk of dying from colon cancer by up to 40% over the risk when developing with Microsoft's .Net technology.

Rory asks, Why do I code?

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:33:35 GMT

Why do I code? Because I can't cook, or change my own oil, or mow lawns. Because I lettered in drama in High School but I never got discovered walking an L.A. mall. Because I never made any money doing standup. Because, God help me, if I wasn't coding the only think I'd be good at would be selling cars. (I'm REALLY good at selling cars. Seriously.)

For real, I code because I like solving problems that are decidedly solvable. I mean, I hear the problem, I think for a moment, I figure it's "possible" and then I try to figure how to solve it in a way that feels good. Because I dig physics. Because the end of the Carl Sagan's "Contact" was UNSPEAKABLY cool. I code because of that feeling I've gotten 5 or 6 times when I just NAILED a problem and (while alone) raised my arms high in victory the same way that rapid sports fans do. Except I look at them with a worried disdain when they do it, but secretly I wish I felt like that more often.

I code because coding, at its best, is art and literature and math and physics all at the same time.

Acquaintances, Buddies, Colleagues, Friends, Family, and Cousins

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:19:43 GMT

I'm sitting on a plane from St. Louis to Orlando on the way to VSLive/ASPLive. I was thinking about who I'm going to see at the conference. I figure that my buddy Chris Kinsman will be there and possibly acquaintances of mine such as Keith Pleas. Why just acquaintance? I've had the pleasure to email Keith four or five times and I've met him four or five times, but when I see him I still lead with, "Keith! Scott Hanselman, how are you doing?" just in case Keith doesn't remember me, and this way he doesn't have to waste CPU cycles looking my face up. I do the same thing with other acquaintances and "colleagues" like Chris Sells and Don Box and [Insert name here], et. al.. They are colleagues as I see them a few (sometimes several times) a year on campus or at conferences. I say hi, but don't expect them to know my wife's name, since when you're holding all the WS-*.* specs in your head, sometimes you can't remember lots of trivial social details.

So I got to thinking about the difference between "friend" and "colleague/acquaintance." I have some remote friends, Patrick Hynds for example, who I chat with a few times a week and who could TOTALLY crash at our place on a moments notice. We've shared (soft) drinks many times and have stories going back years. But, I've only seen Patrick at conferences and on campus also. Hell, I started to realize that I see Don Box more than I see my uncles (I see them on the 4th of July and at Christmas) and Don remembers my name better than my cousins!

Therefore, I conclude that either:

A. I'm not nearly close enough to my family and need to spend more time with them instead of at conferences

2. Patrick, Keith, Don, Clemens, Chris, Chris, Sam and MANY others that I see several times a year are my REAL family and will not be surprised when I show up on their door wondering if I can sleep on their couch.

Anyone else have this problem, or just me?

It came in the mail today...

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 03:49:42 GMT

It came in the mail today, and it's about time. What's next?

ASPLive! and flying on 9/11

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:30:30 GMT

Tomorrow, I'm leaving for Orlando to speak at ASPLive on Internationalization. I'll be flying exactly two years (to the minute) from September 11. Needless to say, the wife's justifiably not happy about it and I have mixed feelings.

My boss says that even flying on September 11th is safer than driving any day. I'm not sure about that, but I'll definitely be expecting some extra security. It's always a challenge to get my Insulin Pump through.

If you're in Orlando at VSLive, please do stop by my Friday afternoon session called "It's the WORLDWIDE Web." I'll be showing some cool stuff in ASP.NET like a banking site in English, Chinese, Malay, Spanish and Arabic. We'll talk all about System.Globalization and dig into the issues around Dates, Currency, Culture and Right to Left languages. It's a very interesting topic. I may try to greet the crowd in at least 10 languages. :)

Remember, when we talk about what happened on 9/11, most people in the world wonder what happened on November 9th...

iPods are God's Gift

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:55:43 GMT

Oh yes, the iPod is the shiznit. I had a Rio 500 for a number of years with 128 megs of ram and got my iPod about 6 months ago.

I do recommend, however, immediately jettisoning the crap MusicMatch software and using these tools:

EphPod for the quick and dirty work: Add a song, edit IP3 tags, adding Outlook Calendar appointments, vCard Contacts, text files, etc.
MoodLogic and DeviceLink are the best thing to happen to MP3s since Napster. Of course, I don't share music anymore, but I do rip the hell out of my 500+ CD collection. MoodLogic is worth the money just for it's song identification capabilities. It fixed the file names on at LEAST 1000 of my songs, including what # it is on the CD, who the artist is, etc. Plus, it creates "Mood Mixes" in the iPod automatically. Coincidentally, the core of it's iPod compatibility is...EphPod.
Then, just for kicks, use Muse.NET to listen to your 20 gigs of music, legally, from work with .NET and Web Services. There are lots of sample applications (many in .NET) to exploit their API, and exploit the programmaticalshipfulness of your music.

Now, if I had only waited, I could have had a 20 gig iPod for the same price...

Zen and the Art of Presenting in Malaysia

Sat, 30 Aug 2003 06:54:21 GMT

It's almost over. We're having a great time at TechEd Malaysia.

We've spend a great deal of time with a great many friends, some new, and some old. I've put up a small photo montage of Malaysian Faces.

The Zen of .NET presentation went fabulously. I started out on stage in the Lotus Position and everyone seemed to find it quite funny. As promised, here's a list of the tools I used and some of the code zipped up. Haven't seen the scores yet, but I think the general feeling is one of positivity.

I hope that more people start using tips like "devenv /fs 14" (devenv /fs 8 to revert) and the Zoomin magnifier. I have also decided I'm going to write a new presentation Magnifier Tool in .NET that includes some features I'd like, like auto-positioning. More on this later.

Zen of .NET Tools

ILDASM.exe comes with the .NET Framework
Blunck's ieHTTPHeaders for seeing HTTP Headers within an IE Explorer Bar
Zoomin for making demos easier to see
Lutz Reoder's Reflector for decompiling code
Dotfuscator for keeping people from decompiling code!
Cassini, the tiny .NET Web Service from http://www.asp.net
Helloworld in C#, C++, C, and IL

When we get back to the states I'll write up some thoughts on culture and doing business "elsewhere."

Malaysia - Days 2 and 3 and 4 wrapping up

Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:01:17 GMT

Yesterday was an exhausting day. I had back-to-back-to-back sessions. Tim Huckaby and I did a Web Services Chalk Talk and had a blast. Tim and I have very different philosophies but when we work together we compliment each other very well. We had to do a little (a lot) of "teeth-pulling" to get folks to open up, but humor always works - and you know Tim is funny. Then I presented Internationalizing ASP.NET for the first time to a non-native-English speaking crowd. ;) I showed an ASP.NET eBanking site that (along with the help of many friends) I localized to English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Bahasa Malaysia. After this session I directed a Hands on Lab (HOL) on Internationalizing ASP.NET. It was my first experience with Microsoft (Connectix) Virtual Server (Virtual PC). (Seems like a pale VMWare-lite to me. As a VMWare user for the last several years [since Version 1] I don't see why people are making such a big deal about Microsoft's acquisition of VirtualPC; It's hardly as cool as VMWare 4.0.)

Mo visited the Batu Caves with Kevita. They walked up 272 steps to the Temple Cave, a Hindu religious site.

"The best known of these caves is the Temple Cave, a large cavern with a vaulted ceiling about 100 metres above the floor. To reach it one has to climb 272 steps, a feat performed by many Hindus on the way to the caves to offer prayers to their revered deities. Every year, on Thaipusam, as many as 800,000 devotees and other visitors may throng the caves. As a form of penance or sacrifice, many of them carry kavadis. These are large, brightly decorated frameworks, usually combined with various metal hooks and skewers which are used to pierce the skin, cheeks and tongue."

We're doing lots of shopping, but not lots of buying. Some kinds of electronics are cheaper here - you can buy an optical mouse for about $2 to $5 US Dollars. But if you want a deal on a digital camera you'll actually pay slightly more here. I paid $400 US for my Casio but here the best deal I could find was RM1688 (US$444). I did get a fantastic idea on a local phone (handphone). I paid RM200 (~US$50) for a new Siemens phone, a local number and enough minutes and SMS credit to last the week. Plus, I'll sell the phone back to the guy for RM100 before we leave.

This evening we were given a tour of the Microsoft Malaysia office on the 29th and 30th floor of the Petronas Towers. They have a FANTASTIC office. My ears popped on the way up.

Tommorow I'll give kind of an experimental session on "The Zen of .NET" for the first time. I'm still formulating my thoughts about what I want to say. A lot of people don't quite understand where .NET fits into the world. They try to fit it into little catch phrases like "It's Microsoft's Java" or "It's just another VM" or "It's the new Platform." I want to explain a lot of the concepts I talk about in The Myth of .NET Purity. People forget that Windows is the platform (today) and that the .NET Framework levels the playing field. I think I'll spend a lot of time at the command-line and in ILDasm and Reflector. We'll see how it goes!

Mayasia - Day #1 wrapping up.

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 05:34:59 GMT

Finished my Web Services Enhancements talk today, and I think it went OK. We'll see tommorow when the speaker scores are announced.

Tomorrow is a big day with a Web Services Chalk Talk, a session on Internationalization (I18n) and ASP.NET, then a Tutorial/Lab on I18n and ASP.NET.

They've really done an amazing job here. Last year there were 1080 attendees, this year over 1500. Last year there were ~40 speakers, this year over 60. The organizers are to be commended for putting TechEd Malaysia on the map. Everything here is first class. The whole region is here - I've talked to attendees from Thailand, Australia, Indonesia, etc. It's great to see the excitement around .NET and Web Services. I hope I'm adding a little to the pool of knowledge here.

Malaysia - Day -1 wrapping up

Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:50:11 GMT

Mo's asleep and Day (-1) is ending. TechEd Malaysia starts tommorow, and I've got a talk on WSE - Web Services Enhancements at 4:30pm and God willing it won't suck.

Speaking to a non-U.S. crowd is an art, and it's not easy. If you present to a crowd that is part Muslim, part Hindu, part Christian, part Buddist, part Chinese, part Indian, part Bumiputra, part Tamil-speaking, part Bahasa Malaysia-speaking, and part Mandarian-speaking (not to mention other languages) like they are all from Ohio, you are bound to miss the mark. I want to present a face of respect to everyone in this very diverse country and it takes research to understand where folks are coming from. Mo and I have been spending the last few days totally with local friends, exploring the non-tourist places, eating at street vendors and learning as much Mandarin and Bahasa Malaysia as possible. It might sound silly to do this in order to better present sessions on ASP.NET and Web Services, but I believe it's the right thing to do and I can't imagine not putting this kind of effort into it. Maybe I'm naive, perhaps ignorant, or just an idealist. Diversity is glorious and to be respected, but I must aim to understand (truly grok) first. I believe to successfully teach someone of a specific culture (be that culture of Malaysia or of Brooklyn) one must be a student of that culture.

There are some 'ugly Americans' in KL (you can hear them in the cafes, they're hard to miss) and I've wished I had this T-shirt a few times.

Lots of interesting stuff today. We ate breakfast overlooking the tallest buildings in the world, the Petronas Towers. Went out to the rural areas and visited a Chinese village, went to a Taoist Temple, and Mo ate Durian (the King of Fruits). We also went up to the "First World Hotel" at the top of the world in the Genting Highlands.

I added a new photo slide show at http://www.hanselman.com/MalaysiaDay3. I tell ya, the Casio Exilim EX-Z3 is schweet.

Tommorow I'll blog about more details of the conference and the technical things and cultural snafus that arise.

Malaysia - Day -2 wrapping up

Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:50:53 GMT

TechEd Malaysia...T minus 2 days. Had a lovely day today. Saw my buddy, the Aussie, Adam Cogan. Chatted with Stephen Forte on MSN, but haven't seen him yet. Can't get my IPsec VPN to work behind whatever firewall they are running here, but not to worry, I'll figure something out. ;)

Spent the day with a local friend seeing all the things you wouldn't normally see as Joe Tourist, which was very cool. I'm posting pictures up at http://www.hanselman.com/malaysia as they come.

Please, do note the copy of Windows 2005-ish, aka Longhorn that was on the shelfs for 15RM which is like US$3.90, and the Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition heavily discounted from it's US price of $4000 to only 5RM or $1.31. I saw this kind of piracy last year, and even though it's been clamped down on in the last few months, it's still ridiculously blatent.

On the road and still more Web Services DON'Ts

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:12:44 GMT

We've just arrived in Hong Kong and we're wireless again. I'd post another picture, but it would look just like the last one except we'd be more tired and have Chinese writing behind us.

On a technical note, we're continuing to run into more Web Services No-No's. This time it was interfacing .NET with a "legacy" Apache-SOAP implementation. Oy vey. It insisted on a custom Apache encoding style ala:

<ns1:SomeMessage xmlns:ns1="urn:UpdateSubUser" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap/literalxml">

So, in the tradition of writing Soap Extensions we are ashamed of :) my CTO whiped up an custom attribute "XmlForceEncoding" that allows this madness to occur. Also, the Web Services we were consuming was using the XSD spec from 1999, rather than 2001, so that was special.

Here's some things Chris and I learned (Chris' words):

The encodingStyle they are using is archaic and Apache-specific (non-standard). It also violates the current WS-I Basic Profile (http://ws-i.org/Profiles/Basic/2003-08/BasicProfile-1.0a.htm#refinement35501800). There are a number of messages on SOAPBuilders and elsewhere about challenges with interoperability for servers using this sort of encoding (see below). The problem here is the contradiction between the use="literal" attribute and the encodingStyle attribute. In (modern) web services, use="literal" means XSD schema-based encoding, so it is therefore unecessary (and redundant) to specify an encodingStyle. In this case it is even contradictory. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Apache-Soap-Users/736360

Wireless Blogging in SFO on the way to HKG on the way to KUL

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 07:06:22 GMT

What was once science-fiction is now commonplace. I'm blogging this entry from the lounge in the international terminal in SFO on the way to TechEd Malaysia. There's T-Mobile hotspots everywhere for a very reasonable $6 a hour. I'm even three floors down next to the gate with great coverage. NetStumbler says there are six access points within a few hundred meters and 5 other laptop fools online with me. I'm VPN'ed into work via IPsec, chatting with my boss over MSN Messenger, syncronizing Outlook 2003's offline Exchange store with the mothershop and I've got an online game of Rise of Nations running the background. All on a laptop with a 1600x1200 (120dpi) screen that only weight about 6 pounds.

Madness my friends. Madness if you don't realize how far we've come. Of course, I needed a B.S. in Software Engineering to make it all happen (considering how hard it was just to get this F'ing Wireless card to work. BUT, regardless. Amazing.

So, I took a picture of my wife and I with a Casio Exilim, docked it, hooked up the USB, it becomes the Z: drive (no driver installation!) and here's the result:

More to come, folks.

Roshambo and Rise of Nations

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:26:52 GMT

If you've every played Age of Empires or the new Rise of Nations, you've probably realized by now that they are just really elaborate examples of Rock-Paper-Scissors (Pikeman beats Knight, Knight beats Footman, Footman beats Pikeman...).

Even though I know this - as a 29 year old man I can intellectualize this - but I still stayed up until midnight last night playing International Roshambo (also known as Rise of Nations). Dammit if it isn't a fantastic game. I'm not even a big gamer, but the level of detail and thought put into this game is ridiculous.

Of course, I play the Bantu (my wife is Zimbabwean Ndebele, a Bantu tribe) as they kick the most butt.

The end of an era...and the beginning of a new computer for me...

Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:10:25 GMT

I mentioned a little bit ago that I walked in my college graduation (had a great C# graduation cake). They let you walk if you have only a few credits left, and I had to take one additonal three credit class in order to get my diploma. Today I finished the final in my one summer class, and I came home and put Discrete Mathematics (fifth edition) on my shelf with about 30 computer science books and I realized that I have NO HOMEWORK. This may seem like a silly thought to you, but if you count the first 12 years of school, and 11 year B.S. degree, I've had homework pretty consistantly for the last 23 years. To wake up tommorow and have no homework is crazy madness. Of course, I'll continue to stay up all night and mess with Mono and run ILDASM on everything in sight, but I just won't received a grade.

So, I updated my resume, and happily moved the Education section up (it had been hidden before) as I am now a "degreed computer scientist" with no homework!

In celebration I upgraded my PC. The original plan was to go all-out and pick up an AlienWare or a FalconNW and do the whole $3000 PC thing.

Segue: The last time I spent $3K on a PC was in 1991 when I picked up a sweet 486DX/33 (that's right, DX, baby!) with 8 Megs of RAM and a 210 Maxtor HD. I promptly installed DRDOS, Stacker'ed the HD to a glorious 400+megs and installed DesqView.

Well, the wife promptly (and wisely) nixed the new PC idea, but OK'ed a trip to Fry's for parts. I picked up a Pentium4 3Ghz with Hyperthreading, and a great new Intel Motherboard, with a gig of Dual Channel RAM. I moved my 45 gig C: drive in for Windows XP (I'll move to Win2k3 when there's more drivers), dropped in my data array (I keep all my data on two RAID Mirrored 20 gig drivers) and my 400 odd gigs of Firewire drives (seriously, get on the Firewire bandwagon...it's so much faster to installed VS.NET and other CDs when everything is on a Firewire drive as a mountable ISO image!) and a new NVidia 5200 FX Dual-Head (multi-monitor, it's not just a suggestion, it's the law). I also put in my DVD, my CD/RW (the new Nero Ultra software suite is unquestionably the greatest value in software today, full stop), my AverMedia USB TV Tuner (you just can't have two monitors if you can't watch TV in a Window while dual-screen debugging).

I put the whole thing together for $824. Amazing. I also ordered some custom front mounted Firewire and USB 2.0 ports (There are a lot of internal motherboard mounted ports that a lot of us leave unused!) With these new ports I'll have 6 Firewire ports, and 8 USB ports.

Holy crap my computer is fast. Even with a crappy C: drive, it's fast. Even better, the motherboard has Serial ATA RAID on the board. I figure if I upgrade the C: with a couple striped drives (probably two of these 10,000 RPM babies), I'd probably see a 4x I/O increase, which is crazy since the beast goes from zero to the deskop in 15 seconds flat.

So much hardware, so little time...maybe now I'll have the time to tinker.

TechEd 2003 DVD: Tragedy Strikes! I must buy a lottery ticket...

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:25:19 GMT

Well...there was a 1 in 400 chance, and I was the one. On the TechEd DVD boxed set that contains all the multimedia presentations for the sessions, if you sort by name, and look for DEV389.htm, you'll see DEV387, DEV388, DEV400, waaah?!? Turns out the launching .HTM file is missing from the DVD set for my session. If you look on Disc 2 and dig for the DEV389_files folder, you can launch the default.htm from there and watch the talk with no problems. But, for those using the menuing system (everyone) you'll get a broken link. Bummer.

.Common - beat poetry

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 01:03:06 GMT

I performed my new beat poem ". <dot> Common" at the LuvJonz last night around 10:30pm to a smoke filled room of very supportive and jazzy people at Ohm.

(By the way, The Ohm is now the new home of Johnny Ray's Grill. I spoke with Johnny Ray briefly, and it's he's got some fantastic beef brisket for like $2. He'll be open 24 hours on the weekends, so you just gotta get down there and get some grub.)

Anyway, it was a blast, and I hope to be down there more often. It's a different vibe than Standup, and very different vibe than C# and PowerPoint. (although, not that different if you've ever seen one of my presentations! )

.DOT COMMON - A Beat Poem by Scott Hanselman

Fri, 01 Aug 2003 06:24:30 GMT

I woke up at 3am last night and wrote this Poem. I will probably perform it at the LuvJonz at Ohm on Weds the 6th.

.DOT COMMON

We watch UPN’s Fake life via a one way transmission
Oh, Those wacky girlfriends
But you are more than my friend….girl
You are my life, my wife, My only source of strife

…man and wife…We fight…

But we make up, and that make-up is a wake up
Calling me to appreciate MY fate, MY life, MY wife
But Fake life calls again, this time it’s a two way transmission

UPN makes way for TCP/IP, U see I see the calls of the green screen and the…chat…
You’ve got mail.
Maybe he’s got mail, you don’t. Your male, yo’ man, is on-line, on yo’ time.

The internet being a means to facilitate data transmission and exchange
At this rate he/I may be your ex…change
Is not always for the better

slash slash, I want my HTTP-Stolen-time-back

But this Internet, this new network, isn’t about you and me,
It’s about me and everyone…but you…

Xbox Live isn’t Livin’
But I am Finding my Solace in the Start Menu
I’m aLive in Windows 95
The C drive affects our sex drive
Letters take my attention
Creates dissention increases contention

Compete, take a back seat, you retreat in defeat
My computer has become my suitor
The internet my friend
We don’t conjugate conjugally
We procreate minimally

And you, my mate, translate to a different state, that of
Roommate - correspondingly lightweight

Bringing together of gentle rank and file
attachments in this Global community

I’m closer to my DOT-PenPal’s locale
Than friends
Shall Speak now or forever hold their peace
I’d never risk
This marriage
This earnest Endeavour
With who-so-what-ever
Till Death do us part ways
Death - The time when something ends
Our DOT com-mon law marriage

- Scott Hanselman ©2003

Portland Area .NET Users Group (PADNUG) - The After Party

Fri, 01 Aug 2003 06:16:15 GMT

Had a blast at the PADNUG meeting tonight. The pizza delivery failed so we all went over to the Buffalo Gap, and enjoyed a buffet on the house. Hung out with Rory Blyth, who is clever in person as well as in the blogosphere. I mentioned I'd sold three Commodore 64s today (+Drives, Monitors, and a Koala Pad) and we talked about BBSes. He also was a big BBS'er back in the day and I was completely shocked to hear that he'd heard of my little BBS...I noticed it's listed in the definitive source of BBS info, the PDX BBS List. Either way, a bloody fine time.

.NET Redneck

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:03:43 GMT

Hilarious...a new software legend emerges...

The poor man's TabletPC

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:49:50 GMT

Recovering passwords from old locked Windows 2000 systems...

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:52:08 GMT

I lost the Administrator password to an old Windows 2000 Server that needed to be patched desperately. It had been running happily in my closet for over 2 years.

So, how to recover the Admin PW for this beAst? There’s always:

Password Recovery Service: http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm
ERD Commander: http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/locksmith.asp

But those cost more money than I am willing to put into this machine (as the machine is hardly worth $199, so, how about:

"Kill Bill"/2 = "Wound Bill"

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:26:32 GMT

<rant>

Tarantino is in some kind of a race to end his already limping career. What, does he think "Kill Bill" is "The Matrix" or "Lord of the Rings?" I seriously doubt people are going to pay twice to see "Nearly Killed Bill" then "Finally Killed Bill"...we hate To be continued...on a Brady Bunch episode, how are we going to put up with it for a movie? This is the kind of thing that made Back to the Future II and III suck so egregiously.

</rant>

Successful GoogleWhack!

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:58:49 GMT

Steve Maine emailed to let me know that my blog has a successful GoogleWhack! Apparently having Google return exactly one result with a given string of just two words is quite unusual. When you search Google for "XSD.exe xs:import" you get me!

Of course, now that I've blogged about my Whack, it will soon be gone...but I'll know inside...