Against my better judgment I bought Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 from Amazon.  Over the years I've tried lots of dictation software and have been uniformly disappointed.  The new NaturallySpeaking says that it achieves a high level of accuracy out of the box without extensive user training.  Many people say that "Gee …

I quite liked COmega's model for concurrency. Joins is a library from Microsoft that implements the same model using .NET 2.0 generics. I haven't played with it yet, but it's definitely in the queue.

I like Karsten Januszweski's 5-day tutorial on WPF (via \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/ct.ashx?id=efab0325-bace-41c3-b0bf-50441130484f&url=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2fAContinuousLearnersWeblog%2f%7e3%2f10102168%2flearn-wpf-in-5-days.html"" target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">Steve Pietrek). Instead of writing something himself, he's structured advice on …

Everyone's buzzing about Photosynth, Microsoft's impressive technology that stitches together photographs and presents them in a 3-D space. However, all that is available today is a video.

In the meantime, though, it turns out that automatically stitching together photos to create panoramas appears to be a solved problem. \<a href …

Brilliant! The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression (http://www.hutter1.net/prize.htm) takes as its challenge the task of compressing 100MB of Wikipedia text into the pre-competition best of \~17MB. The idea is that a chunk of Wikipedia text that big has characteristics relevant to compression that go beyond …

Jeff Atwood, of Coding Horror, says that "the benefits of moving to quad core and beyond are less clear." He produces some numbers to reveal that many of today's processor-intensive applications (media, gaming, databases, etc.) are not multithreaded and, therefore, do not run significantly faster on multicore machines. He observes …

You just have to watch this guitar solo to believe it. Amazing.

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I'm an easy-going guy, but the idea of trying to create a universe in a "bubble" in an accelerator seems like a bad idea.

I joined this book swap site today. Of course, its utility grows with the size of the network.

Look how natural that looks. Doesn't that look good? Wouldn't you buy that? I'd buy that. My friends would buy that. You'd buy that. Of course you would.