Continuations are one of those things (like lambda expressions a few years ago) that people seem to struggle to explain.

Doesn't this capture the essence?

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This photo was taken by Ron Dahlquist yesterday off Maui.

Personally, I got up early to go for a swim in a whale-rich bay this morning and the surf was up and I forgot to shave so my mask kept flooding. It sucked (for sufficiently small values of "sucked").

\<a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2008-02-14.php"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new technical committee to extend the Web Services Business Processes Execution Language (WS-BPEL) to support human interactions.

BPEL4People is comprised of WS-BPEL Extension for People and Web …

Yes, I write a column called "MS and .NET Watch," but it's a technology and process column, not a corporate analysis. Concurrent programming models I can follow, who's in and who's out in the airy realms of MS Corporate is entirely beyond me. I think though, that \<a href="http …

\<a href="http://www.judithbastiaanssen.com/2002Australia/photos/fraser/fraser08.jpg"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The seas are filled with humpbacks, both breeding and nursing. If you go in the water, you can hear them a little if you're on the surface, but if you can swim down 5' …

OK, so if you see this and it's more than a few hours after the posting time, that's good news.

I've got six years of DasBlog entries in my /content directory. I don't have time to maintain my blogging infrastructure (it's hard enough to justify the time I spend just writing the darn thing). For whatever reason, DasBlog and my hosting company just don't seem to get along ... problems with …

While I talked about being blown away by certain talks at Lang.NET, from a pragmatic standpoint I very much enjoyed the practical talks, such as those given by Harry Pierson and, especially, \<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mmaly/default.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Martin Maly. Martin …

Ok, after despairing of getting the comment issue in dasBlog worked out, I have switched over to Disqus. Let me know if this causes headaches...

Like Charles Petzold, my first reaction to Jeff Atwood's question "What Can You Build in 600 Lines of Code?" was along the lines of "5 articles!"

But actually, I think 600 lines is just about the right benchmark size for a language, because it's:

• Small enough to develop in a …