Bluetooth as a PC mike?

I lost my Bluetooth phone (actually, I put it in a McDonald's bag for "safe-keeping" at a beach known for car theft and neglected to mention to Tina that she shouldn't toss the bag in the garbage). I have a Jabra bluetooth headset which works(-ed) great and I thought …

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Sonar-Based Auto-Discovery

I was thinking about Loren's concept of a virtual array-microphone on my[  ]{style="mso-spacerun: yes"}walk this morning. I was breaking it down into simplest cases and came[  ]{style="mso-spacerun: yes"}up with an interesting software idea.

The simplest case is locating a tone-generator on a straight line between[  ]{style …

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Clippy, User Experiences, and Microsoft Search

Chris Pratley blogs of Clippy: ...A big part of the Assistant plan was to use it as the gateway to help. You could click on the Assistant and ask it questions in normal English (or other language depending on your version of Office)....it did not do this as it …

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Mono Beta 1 Release

The Mono team has announced the beta 1 release of Mono. Read the release notes here or download here.

via [Cook Computing]

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p class=ngrelatedlinks align=left> Have you tried Mono? Do you think that it's an important project, a sideshow, or somehow negative (e.g., "All that effort shouldn't …

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Is the ACM Shilling for Sun?

As part of the ACM, one receives free unlimited access to the ACM Professional Development Centre. The PD Centre is hosted at the Sun Learning Center (the "centre" at the "center") and to say that it's Sun-centric is an understatement (they have recently added 5 courses on .NET fundamentals, but …

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Should a Weblog just be questions?

For this month, aside from occasional out-link posts, all of my posts will be in the form of questions. I hope to increase the amount of feedback I get, both in my comments and directly to my email address (lobrien@thinkingin.net). More importantly, I hope to break down the …

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Chat with Bruce Schneier May 5, 11 AM PDT

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT NETSEMINAR

Homeland Security and Other So-Called Solutions:

A Conversation with Bruce Schneier

Editor in Chief Alexandra Weber Morales interviews security and cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies and, most recently, Beyond Fear:

Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.

If you're looking …

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The Pascal String Challenge

The Pascal String Challenge is to compose a blog entry that is exactly 255 characters and link back to Joe Gregorio's original post. Markup characters, titles, and permalinks do not count. The joke relies on Pascal's fixed-length string storage strategy.

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Fantastic Flying Discs

An amazing collection of the art of the flying disc or frisbee^tm^. via [Delta Tango Bravo]

There were only 3000 charcoal HDXs ever made? Sheesh, I had like 10 of 'em; they were my favorite disc when they came out.

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OPML import for OneNote

If you have OneNote 1.1 preview installed, you can now import OPML outlines.  .... The source and executable are located here.  via [Better Living Through Software]

Nice. Works for me.

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