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Much to my surprise, my local Costco had 23 units. When I arrived an hour before opening, I was 9th in line and, when I left the store they still had at least 4 units sitting in the cage. (Ah, the joys of living in a small town!)

Now, in …

I decided to switch to an official Cingular calling plan now that it's been a year since AT&T Wireless went away. I took in my year-and-change-old \$300 SMT5600 Smartphone and was told I'd have to get it unlocked before it would work with Cingular. (But it already works with …

The software development community is about the fall off a cliff.

• Single-threaded programs will never run faster than they run today

Think about it: clock speeds have maxed out and no mainstream programming language is automatically parallelizable. Pissing matches about Java versus CLI generics are irrelevant. The Intel and AMD …

The recent release of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server, and .NET 2.0 is all good news, but it seems to cripple me a little. My next two articles on Avalon / WPF and Tools for Domain Specific Languages, neither of which can I get to install on top of the …

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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