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spins and turns, angles and curves
the shape of dreams half remembered
slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of perfection
a perfect face, perfect lace
find a perfect world for the end of kara thrace
end of line

Sorry for the lack of posts. We’re all alive and well, enjoying getting to know our little boy. For the record, we added an additional name; what’s 1 middle name when you can have 2, right?

So he’s now James Eden Armas Puddle. Armas is Finnish for beloved, and has a cool sound because it’s old school and not very common anymore. Plus in Spanish it’s weapons… and that’s wicked.

Slashdot is reporting the intriguing news that a German doctor has cured a patient of HIV (2 years free of the virus) with a bone marrow transplant from a person naturally immune. Very exciting stuff.

I came across an odd quirk in IIS today. It uses a feature called Socket Pooling to bind to all IP addresses on a machine, regardless of if any websites are running on those IPs. This effectively stops you from running Apache and IIS on the same machine, if you want them both to run on port 80 (even if using different IPs). Websites in IIS will appear stopped, and will display the following if you try and start them:

The process cannot access the file because it is in use by another process.

Thankfully there’s a quick fix. Respect to agrikk on devarticles.com for posting the fix. The Microsoft document describing it is here.