Yay for global warming...

It's Beaujolais Nouveaux season in France and this year's bumper grape crop, due largely to warmer weather and a little more rain in the summer months has produced some truly outstanding Primeur wines. If you see a sign for these wines at your local store. Don't be shy. Buy a bottle. You'll not be disappointed.

Wikipedia plateaus...

With a distinct slowdown in the creation of new articles, perhaps now is the time to evict some of the Wikipedia content nazis and start opening up the field.

So, my Mac is not perfect after-all

Today, my Apple Mac Mini crashed, locked up, totally unresponsive and needed the dreaded four-second power button to reset it and regain control.

This is not the first time.

The Mac is not infallible, is is not fashioned by gods, it isn't the thinking man's answer to the evil empire of Microsoft.

Once again. It's a computer that runs software which occasionally bombs. Cool!

Listbox's annoying habit

Am I the only person annoyed by the behaviour of the WPF ListBox?

Create a page with a ListBox, define a nice DataTemplate Stick some data in the DataContext and... nothing happens.

So much for the DataContext being the center of the universe eh?

You have to specifically declare if you want what ought really to be the default behaviour.