I've confirmed that, as one of them thar jour-nye-lists, I can actually write about my experiences with the Office 12 Beta (I'm allowed to talk about client-side stuff only). I have much to say about the new task-based interface, but for my first post I have to talk about OneNote …

When I'm struggling with a hard problem, I often find myself subvocalizing the logic. It's surprising how often thinking "And therefore.." results in shaking free an elusive conclusion.

But not always. Today, as I tried to figure out some Win32 IPC problem, I found myself thinking the following thought: "And …

Rob Bushway, blogging from Microsoft's Mobile Partner Briefing says that Ultramobile Lifestyle PCs" with a \$500 MSRP, pen-based, all-day batteries, and a full OS (not CE) are coming real soon now.

Wouldn't that be nice?

As always, the last weeks of January are present-time for those of us who are judges in the Jolt Awards, which I launched 16 years ago (how old I am. How very old.)

This year, two books that I thought were exceptional didn't make the final ballot: Vincent Maraia's The …

casey chesnut has solved the issue of streaming DivX to the XBox360, apparently even getting decent framerates over 802.11g. Since I recently upgraded to a "pre-N" wireless network (Linksys wrt54gx2 ? highly recommended), I am totally psyched.

I love Geometry Wars on XBox360; it's a great arcade-style game that's perfect for killing a couple of minutes. Amazingly, though, it's apparently one of the few games that distributes its computation across the XBox's three cores.

I find it wildly amusing that something that is essentially an updated "Asteroids …

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Because "I've got a joystick in my pocket" is way too obvious to describe Levi Strauss' iPod-ready jeans.

Apple announced the first Intel-based Macs today. Presumably, this will drive down the eBay-arbitrated fair market value of second-hand Macs, especially the FMV of what had previously been higher-end machines but which would now be "good enough to develop on," machines. Hmmm...

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