In celebration of my family history and 40th birthday, from now on I get to have a colonoscopy every five years. When the nurse asked "April 15?" I said "Tax day? Seems appropriate!" And then, just to make sure that I was in prime condition, last weekend I came down …

James Gosling blogs about the Sun-Microsoft agreement. It's an interesting read in that Gosling rebuts conspiracy theories that are apparently bouncing around the echo-chamber of the "M\$" mob (as a rule, I don't bother reading discussions where that "witticism" is common currency -- as much as I love the amateur programming …

I get recruiting emails and phone calls often, and it's not surprising that my spam filter (the fabulous SpamBayes) passes through emails that mention C#, Java, unit testing, and so forth. The other day I received an email that mentioned a programming position and then said, essentially, "Send your resume …

I've arranged to conduct an email interview with Danny Thorpe, Borland's Delphi Architect. What should I ask him? I've never used Delphi commercially, although I reviewed it a couple of times over the years.

Microsoft's Jeremy Mazner says that BusinessWeek's statement that WinFS network capability will be sacrificed to Longhorn deadline pressure is incorrect. Mazner's post seems pretty unequivocal. Says Mazner: "WinFS hasn't been cut.[  ]{style="mso-spacerun: yes"}WinFS hasn't even really been scoped back....[W]hat [is this talk about] WinFS wouldn't work …

O'Brien's Law: Any "Surname's Law" formulation labeled as such by its creator is likely a facile exercise in self promotion.

Spencer the Katt gives brief mention to a forthcoming device that, like the Lojak car system, gives location information on a lost or stolen laptop. If you accept the premise that a thing that is not obvious but not entirely invisible is a useful anti-theft technology, couldn't equivalent functionality be …

Danny Thorpe has a blog. Definitely worth subscribing to: Borland has a great tradition of out-innovating Microsoft in software development tools. The joke used to be that you bought Borland in even-numbered years and Microsoft in odd-numbered. The market could definitely use that kind of competition again. The first example …

A smart tip on throwing exceptions by Brad. via [ScottWater]

According to BusinessWeek, Microsoft is cutting features in Longhorn in order to achieve a first-half 2006 ship date. BusinessWeek says that the biggest casualty will be WinFS, the metadata store that would go beyond things like size and creation date to track an enormous number of attributes about files. BusinessWeek …