IPad

     Today Apple announced their next offering: IPad. From what it seems, this is going to be the real competitor to Kindle DX, and Amazon even has to do some catch-up in a field which until now they were leading.
     The IPad has some serious downsides,  maybe the best outcome is Amazon releasing a cheaper/better Kindle soon?
     IPad is interesting, but I still favor a netbook/PC + e-Reader, a lot more openness and possibilities.

Building my own website

    I've started to read Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 , the first chapter is free. After working with Web Forms for a short period (a year and a half) the MVC framework seems like a breeze of fresh air. I don't really understand the whole debate on Web Forms vs. MVC, it's pretty clear which one is cleaner, more robust and easy to use. And no, the lack of controls is not a minus, the web is based on HTML and JavaScript served through HTTP, then why bury all those inside a bunch of web controls when we can use HTML directly?
   Giving the fact that at work I will continue working with Web Forms for the next year I think, I need to start some home project to learn Asp.Net MVC. I'm thinking for some time at creating my own website, so this seems to be a great opportunity to do something useful while learning. I know that there are a bunch of blogging engines for .NET, but I think I will do it from scratch anyway.
   I wonder how soon I will have something usable...