My latest article on DevX implements a packet filter and custom selection tool using the Tablet PC RealTime Stylus APIs.

Trying to download VS2005 or SQL Server, I get "Error Code = 11001" on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. That's "Host Not Found" in SQL Server, according to the search engines.

Since Hawaii doesn't have Daily Savings Times, in the Winter I can start working at 7 AM in order to maintain West Coast hours... Mmmm... Sleep until dawn....

::: {.Section1} [Herb Sutter has in the past year made a convincing case that "the free lunch is over" for performance and that languages cannot ignore concurrency and remain relevant. His PDC talk introduces his thoughts for "Concur:" a set of conforming extensions to C++ that provides high-level abstractions ("active" objects …

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Ah hah! The latest Vista CTP installed very cleanly. The first thing I noticed was that it took me minutes and minutes to figure out how to add files to Windows Media Player.

As I post this, I am surprised to see that the HTML-editing \<textarea> is not the WYSIWYG-style …

Greg Kerr just posted a WPF app written in IronPython to the mailing list. Very, very cool.

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[Ward Cunningham’s joining Microsoft was (rightly) touted by that company as a bit …

::: {.Section1} [\< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />We went down to the start of the Ironman yesterday morning. It's a great spectacle: 1800 athletes all of whom intend to do something that I couldn't possibly accomplish. The race begins at 7:00 and the cut-off for finish is midnight, so you have …

::: {.Section1} [I needed to install Visual Basic on my development Tablet but the VS2005 RC installer blew up when I tried to do that, so I ended up uninstalling Whidbey, but before I could install the RC, I also had to uninstall SQL Server 2005. And then, when everything gets …