::: {.Section1} [\< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />We went down to the start of the Ironman yesterday morning. It's a great spectacle: 1800 athletes all of whom intend to do something that I couldn't possibly accomplish. The race begins at 7:00 and the cut-off for finish is midnight, so you have …

::: {.Section1} [I needed to install Visual Basic on my development Tablet but the VS2005 RC installer blew up when I tried to do that, so I ended up uninstalling Whidbey, but before I could install the RC, I also had to uninstall SQL Server 2005. And then, when everything gets …

To accept as true the results of a prominent Google return: I googlieve the wavelength of red light to be 650nm. See also: googlief.

Googlief has a complex relationship with belief, as one might accord a googlief of something like wavelengths a higher belief than one's vague recollections, but on …

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I'm not surprised that I like Neil Young's Prairie Wind and Beck's Guero.

Looks like either they've broken the CAPTCHA methods used by das Blog, or people are hand-posting comment spam.

I think that email spam may be using keywords derived from my blog as part of their randomly generated subject lines. That's a clever way to get around any Bayesian filter.

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My latest article for DevX was a fun one, a Tablet application that records pen strokes of a sports play and plays them back in synchrony, to illustrate a sports play.

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::: {.Section1} [casey chesnut, whose propensity for lower-casing his name ticks off Word auto-correction, says that it is a myth that the best way to be hired as a programmer is to code something cool. casey's right. He’s proved by his Web postings that he can write: neural nets to …