Shapewriter, formerly known as SHARK, is absolutely the fastest text input method short of typing (mmm... possibly voice input in certain domains). For years Shapewriter has languished at IBM's Alphaworks site. I can't wait for them to ship for the Tablet PC, although right now the downloads link at the …
more ..."\<a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/att-invents-pro.html%23comments"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance" is Wired's absurdly bad headline describing how \<a href="http://www.research.att.com/%7ekfisher/hancock/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hancock, "a C-based domain-specific …
more ...#include \<windows.h>
int PASCAL WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR args, int show)
{
MessageBox(GetActiveWindow(), "Congratulations Charles & Deirdre!", "Many happy returns!", MB_OK);
return 0;
}
more ...Apple is apparently refusing to accept cash for iPhones. I have a feeling this policy will last less than 24 hours, as there's significant intersection among the set of people who would purchase iPhones and the set of people who will get into quite a snit about "This note is …
more ...I hate to be an American League fan-boy, but now that The Curse has been broken, the truth is that the World Series was pretty anti-climactic. (Not that anything could be as dramatic as the 2004 Sox-Yankees series.)
I love that \<a href="http://www.dropkickmurphys.com/"" target="_blank" rel …
more ...Pt. 1, Pt. 2, and \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink%2cguid%2cb9661672-40f8-4e8f-a26e-985fdffd5d2b.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pt. 3
One reason why it's very difficult to make a living writing about software development is that while traditional publications were deadline-driven, online outlets are marketing-driven. When there's a …
more ...My nephew Jake went to a friend's bar mitzvah at the Radisson in Scranton, PA. Apparently, the cast of The Office is in town doing a little goodwill and presumably shooting some exteriors (although I don't know why they need to -- the scenes they've been using look totally like Northeastern …
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more ...This might be better as a series of Twitter "thinking about..." posts, but since I don't really "get" Twitter, I'll jot down this nagging concern here...
I was reading this excellent post on \<a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/coredump/archive/2007/10/19/116178.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer …
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