I'm not prone to game “addiction,” but I lost 2 hours to Planarity yesterday and am trying to keep myself from clicking through right now...

One wonders what the rationale is for changing the names of programmer-level layers from fairly memorable brands to utterly forgettable TLAs.

Well, there's a nice coincidence -- a brand-new (well, used, but not by me) M1400 and the Longhorn / Vista beta. In the words of the immortal James Doohan, “How do they mix? I'll let you know...”

Update: Microsoftian Hilton Locke warns “many of the user interface items (read: Tablet PC Input …

Loren speaks of hardware driving the success of the Tablet PC, and Iggy agrees, going so far as to say that “computing with a pen is unnatural.”

“Computing with a pen is unnatural.” Okay, I can agree with the words, but only to the extent that it's tied to “computing …

I can't find any sign of this on Yahoo's Website, but a press release from the Computer Games Development Conference Europe speaks of “Yahoo! Poker, a multiplayer cross platform title, which lets mobile phone gamers play against those on their PCs.” Man, there's gotta' be some way to cash in …

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Business Week says that the outsourcing craze has peaked and demand is increasing for American programmers. It then goes on to warn that “routine programming” is continuing to flow offshore and that programmers wishing to be employed in America have design skills.

The funniest line in the piece is on …

So I wrote a rough pass for my OneNote PowerToy: it synchronizes voice recordings on a SmartPhone / PocketPC onto a desktop and imports them as links into a OneNote page. After spending some time with a hex editor, I backed off the idea of trying to do a binary edit …

Loren asks how one would spend various amounts to promote the Tablet PC.

• \$10 million. I would “bake in“ ink and voice input support to a word processor and spreadsheet. If I didn't happen to have a world-dominating suite of office products, I'd do it in Open Office for heaven's …