Just because I'm so freakin' pissed off at the government for playing stupid about the use of hijacked planes as guided missiles (what, you're telling me that Cheney doesn't read Tom Clancy?), here's Article 2 of the UN Charter.

Good heavens! Mac only has 2.2% Global Operating Systems marketshare? *nixs don't even show up on the study, which seems pretty dang fishy to me; surely UNIX/Linux's command significant shares of the server market, but could it be that the number of servers is so small in comparison …

In August 1998, U.S. intelligence learned that a "group of unidentified Arabs planned to fly an explosive-laden plane from a foreign country into the World Trade Center." So my question is: When are we going to start holding our elected representatives responsible?

In other, actually-related-to-programming news: I just posted …

This white-paper on SCM best practices appears in the October Dobb's. It's excellent. Incidentally, I enjoyed four articles in this issue; it almost restores my faith in programming magazines.

There's a pretty good article in the October Dobb's about complexity and the use of gaming agents. One caveat, though; the article includes a figure that shows a model outperforming various other strategies in a financial market. The text mentions something that anyone interested in using computers to do financial …

Borland eyes WebGain users. Company seeks to provide safe haven for VisualCaf

Big news: Charles Simonyi and Gregor Kiczales are launching a software tools company. Simonyi is, in a very real sense, the most famous of all coders from Microsoft (ever heard of Hungarian notation?). Kiczales is the guiding light behind the Aspect-J aspect-oriented programming language. The name of their company is …

In the latest round of "How cool is C#" anecdotes, I've ported my personal mailing list manager entirely over to Gearhost (my hosting service). My C# MLM is based on the "JavaDomo" MLM I wrote for Java Pro a few years ago, and if I get significant requests, I'll clean …

Gearhost, my hosting service, rocks powerfully. Lightning fast response on technical questions, .NET hosting, good price. Highly recommended.

There's a debate raging about whether binary XML is a good idea (summary: binary XML would undoubtedly have performance benefits, but would it undermine crucial benefits of XML?). Ingo Rammer is the proponent of the idea and while I concede virtually every point he makes, on balance it seems to …