Tweets

• 7y: Testing twitter gadget for opera mobile
• 7y: Bonnie Bassler (TED): Discovering bacteria's amazing communication system: http://is.gd/rpad
• 7y: You cannot have a better past, so abandon that idea right now. You did what you knew how to do, given the circumstances of your life.
• 7y: aXbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock: Monitors your sleep phases and wakes you up when you're ready. Bought one today! http://axbo.com
• 7y: Just put I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert in the shopping basket. http://is.gd/r2nI
• 7y: (Audio) book recommendation: A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking http://is.gd/r1I3
• 7y: (Audio) book recommendation: The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama http://is.gd/qQON
• 7y: Recommending an audio book about the American democracy: The Assault on Reason by Al Gore. About: http://is.gd/qQuS Buy: http://is.gd/qQwJ
• 7y: "I am more than what bothers me." #86, http://is.gd/qQig
• 7y: "Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." http://is.gd/qQ78

Blog entries

• Windows Live Mesh: class not registered

  Make sure that the "Windows Firewall" service is running.
  
  1) Start -> Run -> net start "windows firewall"
  
  or
  
  2) Start -> Run -> services.msc, locate "Windows Firewall" service and press Start.
  
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• Integrating blogger.com with a personal website

  My website, andreasbrekken.com, runs ASP.NET MVC and is highly integrated with popular services such as Flickr, Delicious, and Blogger.

  So how do you display posts?

  In your controller:
  

  this.ViewData["Blog"] = from x in XDocument.Load("http://andreas-brekken.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default")
                           .Root.Elements(XName.Get("entry", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")).Take(10)
                       select x;
  

  
  
  In your view:
  

      <ul class="blog-entries">  
          <li>
           <h3><%= x.Element(XName.Get("title", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")).Value%></h3>
           <%= x.Element(XName.Get("content", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")).Value %>
           <a class="more-link" href="<%= x.Elements(XName.Get("link", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"))
               .First(y => y.Attribute("rel").Value == "alternate").Attribute("href").Value %>">Read the entry</a>
           </li>
       <% } %>
   </ul>
  

  It'd be a better idea to process all of the XML in the controller and then pass the posts as strongly typed, or anonymous class, objects.

  
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