::: {.Section1} Tina and I saw “Aliens of the Deep” when we were in San Francisco. We liked it more than Greenspun, but his description of the climax as “big-eyed snails who’ve built themselves an Indian casino” is perfect:
more ...James Cameron, director of the movie Titanic, goes 3000' to 10 …
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more ...This site is a candy store. OpenSourceCMS gathers together a large number of CMS-ish apps (classic CMS, Wikis, Blogs, Forums and more) into one testable site. The server gets rebuilt every two hours, but in that time, you can try out a number of apps, including such fan favourites …
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[T]he PyCon 2005 keynote session Python on the .NET Platform on Wednesday March 23rd will hopefully coincide with the release a much more complete implementation. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Cook Computing]
Jim Hugunin has been MIA for months. I talked to …
more ...I was just looking through my server logs to try to see what kind of searches were bringing people on the site. Instead, I saw a whole bunch of inbound links from a particular high-level domain that apparently teaches people how to play poker. Doesn't make sense; I like poker …
more ...more ...Engadget columnist Ross Rubin declares the death of pen computing.
The premise of the column is that pen computing doesn't add enough value. There [is]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} value the article claims in diagramming and forms--but this just isn't enough to justify the expensive of providing one. Just use a …
My latest for DevX, on developing an ink-based Wiki, is now available.
more ...I was thinking about the near-future day when the guy in front of me on the plane not only lowers his seat into my lap five minutes into the flight but does so while beginning a six-hour conversation on his cell phone or VOIP connection. Are small but potent electromagnetic …
more ...My latest column, on interviewing at Microsoft and laziness, is up at SD Times.
more ...According to David Intersimone, Delphi 1.0 launched 10 years ago today at the Software Development conference. We're currently evaluating Delphi 2005 for this year's Jolt Award for "Languages and Development Environments." Other finalists are: CodeRush, Eclipse, IDEA, JBoss AOP, Python, RealBasic, and Sun Java Enterprise Studio.>
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