I've been doing way too much flying lately.
Have you ever noticed that the pre-flight safety briefing starts with instructions on “how to buckle a seat belt” and moves without pause through “activating your on-board oxygen mask” to “transforming safety slides into liferafts in the case of a water landing …
more ...Oh yeah, I think I'll continue developing this...
more ..."Our scheduling and predictability on this project has been better than it was on OS 360." -- Bill Gates, August 27, 2004
more ...Just got off the phone with John Montgomery and Bill Schultz of Microsoft regarding today's announcements re. Longhorn. The official word is that they're announcing 3 things:
This is now running dasblog.
more ...Did you miss me?
You didn't even notice I was gone, did you?
*sniff*
Well, I now live in Hawaii, and you don't, so there!
But it's kind of lonely...
... Hey, next time you come to the Big Island, let's have lunch!
more ...This is a funny flash movie they played at JavaOne explaining the Sun-Microsoft relationship.
more ...According to Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft is going to announce an "Express" version of Visual Studio this week targetting hobbyists and students. A few months ago, I wrote that such a thing would be a great idea.
more ...Tim Lambert's When Think Tanks Attack does a good job of exposing Microsoft attempts at Astroturfing (paying for the appearance of "grassroots" movement). Sure enough, Microsoft hired as their chief lobbyist one of the directors of a particular think-tank that I questioned about three months ago (I'm not going to …
more ...Evan couldn't resist and adds his two cents to the continuing conversation about improving Tablet sales and seeking Tablet nirvana.
via [Incremental Blogger]
A common theme is that, with a slate or a convertible in tablet mode, a Tablet just looks like a screen showing a screen saver. So how …
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