Sciral Consistency

I have never registered a piece of shareware faster than I did this morning after trying out Sciral Consistency. This is a to-do manager for repetitive tasks that can occur within a range of days (for instance, you need to do the bills twice a month, but an Outlook repetitive …

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Touch Table -- Put Tablet XP On This!

This is something I'd love to see running Tablet XP: a table whose surface is a touch-screen display running at 1600 x 1200. via \<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/11/24.html%23a8707" ">Scoble.

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What's wrong, Flipper, is Bud in trouble?

Reuters reports that a pod of dolphins protected swimmers from an attacking great white shark off the coast of New Zealand's North island:

Link  [Via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Boing Boing]

Nice story, but I’m not sure I believe it.

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Casey Chesnut Unjumps The Shark

Casey Chesnut, who’s my favorite Tablet PC programmer because he does all this stuff apparently without realizing that it’s supposed to be hard, has written a neural network based character recognizer for the Tablet PC ([via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Tech Blender]). He normalizes an ink stroke in x …

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Tablet PC Jumps The Shark

Time magazine today named the Intel Centrino mobile technology wireless surfboard as one of the Coolest Inventions of 2004…
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Lordy, lordy, lordy. When [this]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} counts as the coolest thing that done with a technology, we …

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Let the fools have their tartar sauce!

::: {.Section1} There’s an early Simpsons where Mr. Burns somehow comes to believe that Homer is a fellow predatory capitalist. When he asks Homer how to improve the working environment, Homer says that he’d like the fish sticks in the cafeteria to come with more tartar sauce. Burns marvels …

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Language Oriented Programming

Via \[[Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/377)\] I found JetBrain’s Sergey Dimitriev’s **[very important]{style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"}** whitepaper on "[Language Oriented Programming: The Next Programming Paradigm](http://www.onboard.jetbrains.com/articles/04/10/lop/)" This is the best brief explanation I’ve …
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The Message of the Tablet Medium

…So here's some homework for the mighty tablet armada: [sell me on the tablet platform]{style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"}…Given all that, convince me. Sell it to me. Design me a suitable demo. Explain to me exactly why I shouldn't go and get some cute little touch-screen sub-notebook, a ThinkPad with …

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100GB HD for Your Tablet: $194

Seagate 100GB 2.5" IDE for \$194: "Amazon.com offers the Seagate 100GB 2.5-inch IDE 5400 rpm drive for notebook computers, model no. 9W3277-556, for \$193.99 with free shipping, as a reader found. [Via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Tablog PC]

Without an optical drive to boot from, how would …

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