I love the TabletPC. One reason is that, like many writers, I have an abiding love for the physical act of putting pen to paper (or, for the past 18 months, pen to screen). I have a few "nice" pens, a couple Mont Blancs, two Watermans, and I use those …

I bet that a good 50% of the readers of this blog already know about thinktecture, a company that's less than 24-hours old. Because of blogging, I'm the #1 Google return for various queries about programming airline reservation systems, which is how I keep myself in Jolt Cola and Doritos …

Julien (Dumky) Couvreur comments on my sonar-discovery thoughts:

"Some problems for measuring distances: -don't you only measure the distances modulo the wavelength?"

Yes...*scratch on back of envelope*... holy cow, those are much shorter than I realized...So much for pure tones; you'd have to use a complex waveform. Which …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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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.

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