When I'm struggling with a hard problem, I often find myself subvocalizing the logic. It's surprising how often thinking "And therefore.." results in shaking free an elusive conclusion.

But not always. Today, as I tried to figure out some Win32 IPC problem, I found myself thinking the following thought: "And …

Rob Bushway, blogging from Microsoft's Mobile Partner Briefing says that Ultramobile Lifestyle PCs" with a \$500 MSRP, pen-based, all-day batteries, and a full OS (not CE) are coming real soon now.

Wouldn't that be nice?

As always, the last weeks of January are present-time for those of us who are judges in the Jolt Awards, which I launched 16 years ago (how old I am. How very old.)

This year, two books that I thought were exceptional didn't make the final ballot: Vincent Maraia's The …

casey chesnut has solved the issue of streaming DivX to the XBox360, apparently even getting decent framerates over 802.11g. Since I recently upgraded to a "pre-N" wireless network (Linksys wrt54gx2 ? highly recommended), I am totally psyched.

I love Geometry Wars on XBox360; it's a great arcade-style game that's perfect for killing a couple of minutes. Amazingly, though, it's apparently one of the few games that distributes its computation across the XBox's three cores.

I find it wildly amusing that something that is essentially an updated "Asteroids …

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Because "I've got a joystick in my pocket" is way too obvious to describe Levi Strauss' iPod-ready jeans.

Apple announced the first Intel-based Macs today. Presumably, this will drive down the eBay-arbitrated fair market value of second-hand Macs, especially the FMV of what had previously been higher-end machines but which would now be "good enough to develop on," machines. Hmmm...

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From the MAKE newsletter:

there's a need for a Java-to-C guide--not just the language, but how it's really used in major apps, how to account for everything you're importing, best practices like unit testing, packaging, exception handling, etc.

It seems perverse at first, but the more I think about it …