I went to Christmas on the Prado tonight. It was, in a word, magical. It was everything I could have hoped for at this point and I feel…happy. I’m also really tired but I had such a good time tonight that I just had to write about it.

myself have wondered how they came up with the name, and I think I’ve figured it out. Microsoft has a few favorites that they seem to keep coming back to. One of their favorites is “Active”, as in Active Directory, Active Content, Active Server Pages, Active Desktop and ActiveX. That last one is where the “Actives” intersect with their other favorite X. As in XBox, ActiveX and DirectX. Since they wanted to tie the Zune to the Xbox via the Marketplace I think the original name for the device was planned to be Xune, springing off of their “X” brand and because it’s a direct competitor to iTunes and since calling it Xtune (or xTune) would have been too blatant a ripoff.

S: That guy I was talking to yesterday e-mailed me and said what we want to do is impossible. B: Oh really? Because I already did it, so you can call him back and tell him to SUCK BALLS!!

Since this information doesn’t seem to be readily available many places, I’m putting it here. This is the fast track to getting an SSL certificate. openssl genrsa -out private.key 4096 openssl req -new -key private.key -out server.csr Fill out the requested information. Use your two letter country code. Use the full name of your state. Locality means city. Organization Name and Organizational Unit Name seem rather self explanatory (they can be the same).

Of my weekend, I will only say this. My cousin Michelle had the most beautiful wedding I’ve ever been to.