I continue on with Steven King. The fourth book in the Dark Tower series is called "Wizard and Glass" and is mostly backstory where King flushes out the history of Roland, the Gunslinger. In it I happened across this new word: pestilential. Pestilential, according to Dictionary.com, means among other things, "annoyingly troublesome" or "pernicious; harmful". Jules Verne uses the word in chapter 13 of "Five Weeks in a Balloon" as follows: "Only a few scattered huts could be seen through the pestilential mists." A google search indicates that many use the word to refer to either disease or religion (perhaps because of biblical references to plagues).

On the dashboard front, I've been looking into TagClouds recently. Tag clouds are those groups of differently sized words that one often finds in blogs, where the size of the word indicates the relative proportion of entries tagged with that word to the group as a whole. This article by Scott Mitchel describes a method of creating tag clouds using ASPX and is pretty good. I thought his mention of using standard deviation to avoid skewing is an important point.