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Christopher Hawkins takes on Joel Spolsky. Stands up for independent consultants. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

[Apparently, Joel pooh-poohed 1-person consultancies, saying “It's just having a job. Another job like everyone else. You're not independent…” Really? Gee, I took six weeks off this year while I …

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Ellen Simonetti: I was fired [from Delta Airlines] for blogging. Michael Gartenberg reacts. [via]{style="font-style:italic"}
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[Gartenberg’s reaction boils down to the fact that (a) it’s not as simple as that – Simonetti’s firing seems to have more to do with her …

3Leaf have posted an initial draft of their spec for Arcs of Fire and the Tablet PC SDK:

http://ea.3leafdev.com/2004/12/draft_version_o.html

Check it out here.

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According to Microsoft's Frank Gocinski, "Microsoft Office has shipped their context manifests for the Tablet PC Platform [December 16], they are available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=31634d79-34ad-494d-8108-80085ace23be&DisplayLang=en

Contextual Awareness is a key part of the Tablet PC 2005 O/S, it enables applications …

[Scott on Writing] reports on Brian Bischof and his page on the ins and outs of self-publishing, which Brian calls Self-Publishing Tips.  Along with http://www.fonerbooks.com/pod.htm this makes for very interesting reading.

Although I think my book-writing experience was particularly horrible, anecdotal evidence seems to show …

[This is real cool, Arin pointed us to the work Cornell Computational Synthesis group is doing around freehand sketching. The project is called 3-D Journal and it’s a demonstration of live sketching, written specifically for TablePC in C#.]{style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"}

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…snorkeling rocks!... my first snorkeling expedition ever. At first, I was blown away at the clarity of what I could see under the water and the ease with which I could breath (I expected to swallow a lot of water). Then, I was completely freaked out at the shear number …

*David Pescovitz: This person assembled mechanical logic gates from Lego [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"}* [Boing Boing]

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*Advertising Ridiculum Does anybody remember when magazines used to put the table of contents just inside the front cover…Is there a limit to how much magazines are willing to annoy their readers to please their advertisers? via* Eric.Weblog()

The answer is “No, there is not a limit.” The …

A giant swell has rolled in and the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational is on, with 20-ft. plus waves (that means wave-faces of 30+') in Waimea Bay! Checkout the action. I'm on deadline, otherwise I would have burned up some Hawaiian Airlines frequent flyer miles to jump over to Oahu …