Could a mobile phone be a consumer's only computer?

::: {.Section1} [Philip Greenspun suggests the use of the mobile phone as identity and storage and an “appliance” into which the phone plugs as the general purpose computer used to perform “home” computing tasks (email, browsing, playing games, etc.) Having used Sun’s SunRay thin clients back in the dot-com days …

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OneNote 12 Screenshots from Owen Braun

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Microsoft's usability archive: What does it reveal about the Tablet?

::: {.Section1} [Kevin Schofield tells of Microsoft’s “central archive of reports from usability tests and user studies on ts products. The reports date all the way back to 1989.” Oh, wouldn’t I love to be able to read what that has to say about Tablet PC user interfaces!]{style …

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Choosing Community Server, DotNetNuke, FlexWiki, Zope, or other?

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Happy Equinox!

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LINQ Questions, Some Answers

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Microsoft re-org: Profitability versus bureaucracy?

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And by "simple" we mean "spaghetti-like"

My new clients have responded to our shockingly complex architecture by specifying, get this, the names of the source code files we are to deliver. So, apparently if we can't negotiate this away, our class structure will be memorialized in the specification contract! Oh, Lordy. Why does the phrase "sunk …

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LINQ: The Compiler Does Not Generate SQL!

Already I'm seeing people falling into the interface vs. implementation mistake with LINQ. Because I think LINQ is a big deal, I'm going to put up a LINQ Wiki RSN, but I had to post this because it got under my skin so: The compiler does not translate your query …

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Expression bluetooth keyboard not compatible with Tablet PC

::: {.Section1} [Grrr]{style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;font-style:italic"}[… Despite the assurances of the salesmen at the PDC, the “Expression bluetooth keyboard” is [not]{style="font-style:italic"} compatible with the Tablet PC. So now I have a portable keyboard that only works with my cellphone. Like [that’s]{style …

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