Useful MSDN Article on Azure Blob Storage

The Cloudy in Seattle blog is always good, and this article is a good back up to the hands on labs on storage
http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/10/29/walkthrough-simple-blob-storage-sample.aspx

he refers to the following MSDN article which saved my bacon
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203057.aspx

I might have missed it in the Labs, but the on line one is very good, especially the note and table referred to:
"Note: The Endpoints listed on the summary screen are not the URLs that you will use to access the storage services if you are using the StorageAccountInfo type in the StorageClient library in the Windows Azure SDK samples. Please see the table below."

I dont know myself

After yesterday's experience - only posted today -- of the helpful Asp.Net message, today I find myself reluctantly praising Azure Web Services. A lot of rough edges, and I mean a lot, but as I do more of the hands on labs I get more ideas about how this could be A Good Thing. If the Good People at Redmond can restrain themselves and come up with a reasonable pricing structure, they could give Salesforce a run for its money. I need to have another go at Google App Engine, I was definitely taken with the Pythonic way of doing things, and all respect to Jon Udell, using Python on Azure Web Services as it exists at the moment seems well, a bit masochistic. Ta but no thanks.

Love at last?

I think I'm finally beginning to like ASP.Net -- it actually helped with my debugging -- I was so used to it being useless that I only noticed the very specific message when I had given up for the day and was shutting everything down, including the - as I thought - gratuitous aspx error page. Who would have thought. But after grinding away at it for five months, it could be the Stockholm Syndrome (where you end up liking your torturer :-)

Missing Something with Vista UAC

When you run an ASP Web site project in certain circumstances, it will refuse to load up properly if you dont sign into Visual Studio as Administrator. This seems bizarre in the extreme to me, only certain aspects such as changing the public directory structure of the website, copying the web site and changes to the database seem to be Admin activities to me, everything is should be runnable as a sand-boxed user, otherwise, what is the point of having security settings at all?