Amazon's Got My Number

We recommend How to Become a Professional Con Artist http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1581602693/ref=pe_arr_d_1581602693_6_txt

You are 19,547 times more likely to purchase this item than other customers.

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Congratulations, you've installed DasBlog!

Be sure to visit all the options under "Configuration" in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 16 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

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BizWeek Reports 7.5% Growth In Programmer Jobs

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 …

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Notes on OneNote / SmartPhone / PocketPC Recording Integration and Voice Recognition

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 …

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Ten _Million_ Dollars To Promote the Tablet PC?

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 …
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OneNote File Format Reverse Engineered for PowerToy Competition?

I'd like to enter the OneNote PowerToy competition and, since getting a fourth[]{.underline} Tablet PC is not particularly motivating I'll even tell you what I've got -- your voice notes on your Smartphone / PocketPC get automatically changed into OneNote items. I've got it working using file links but I'd like …

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Dontclick.it: Fascinating for Tablet developers

http://www.dontclick.it/ shows how effective a clickless interface can be.

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Literate Programming in .NET

DevX has posted an article that I am really pretty proud of: a literate programming tool for .NET using Microsoft's Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. By using Word styles and embedding XML tags, you can label your code fragments in a Word document as compilable (including specifying assembly targets …

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Loren starts showing ink code comments

Loren Heiny is has begun posting screenshots from his work developing IDE plug-ins allowing inked comments to be made on source code. Personally, I think this is a tremendous use of the Tablet. DevX has just put up my article on literate programming in .NET using Word (in other words …

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Arrggghghhh!!! Motion ships small-factor Tablet PC while my check for a full-size is in the mail!

Oh, I am freakin' killing myself. I bought an M1400 last freakin' week in order to get a ViewAnywhere screen and Motion ships an 8” diagonal-screen Tablet. I am so severely bummed words can't express...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I live in Hawaii, see …

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