My latest article for DevX shows how to add ink annotations to photos, both on the image itself and within the EXIF metadata headers.

The WMI Code Creator freeware tool is an absolute godsend for anyone trying to plumb the depths of WMI. It allows for interactive exploration of all the namespaces on your computer and even generates C#, VB, or VBScript code to retrieve the value or attach to the events you find …

Inspired by Edi Weitz' solution to Einstein's Riddle in Common Lisp (via O'Reilly Radar), I used Andy Chun's NSolver constraint programming library to solve the program using .NET.

Here's a sense of what C# / NSolver looks like:

//The green house's owner drinks coffee
>Post(greenHouse.Eq(coffee));
//The person who …

Two-step (geotags in the HTML)

::: {style="display:none" geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wsg84_pos#"} 19.423791 -155.91163 :::

Dan Gillmor wonders if there's an effective way to battle scam e-mails. Here's a thought: banks, eBay, CC companies, etc. provide a Web site or Web Service that provides an array of fake userids and passwords that are identified in their back end as “fraudulent.”

• A savvy person receiving a …

Well, that's a little disappointing. Microsoft's new SyncToy is 3/4 of a great utility, but it requires manual intervention to run, rather than syncing every x minutes or on reconnection to a wireless network. It also does not synchronize directories with PDAs or SmartPhones.

Well, that was quick. According to Hilton Locke, the TIP is now available for installation in the Vista beta. Maybe I will install Vista on the M1400 after all...

SyncToy Beta 1 is now available:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0fc1154-c975-4814-9649-cce41af06eb7&displaylang=en&Hash=4GB5TM

Boy, I hope by November 7 the IntelliSense parser doesn't “helpfully” replace “T” with “ThreadStaticAttribute” all the time.

I'm not prone to game “addiction,” but I lost 2 hours to Planarity yesterday and am trying to keep myself from clicking through right now...