::: {.Section1} The Daily WTF is always great, but this Perl script is priceless. I’ve got to come up with something like this to send to my editors when I blow a deadline. (The original post accidentally left the guilty party’s real email in the listing. I obfuscated it …

Spending “three to eight hours per day” on his link blog has overwhelmed Scoble. It's a little unclear how blogging is incorporated into the Microsoft workday; it appears that while Microsoft has a commendable “blogging is good” attitude, I think it's supposed to be done on your own time (I …

IronPython 0.7 has been released and placed into a GotDotNet workspace. I spoke with Jim Hugunin yesterday about the release. He says that it is essentially a minor upgrade to IronPython 0.6; the real news is that he is going to become more active in the project. He …

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You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
[“The idea is you memorize a book and repeat it over and over again until your grandchildren run from the room whenever you open your mouth and start quoting, 'Mr. Popper's Penguins,' or …

So last night I signed up for “Amazon Prime,” which provides “all you can eat” express shipping for a year for \$79. This is a great deal for me now that I live in Hawaii, since media mail to Hawaii can take weeks.

So I dropped a couple books in …

University of Hawaii researchers have discovered the wreck of a giant (400 feet long!) Japanese submarine aircraft carrier in 2,500 feet of water off Oahu. Captured at war's end, the I-400 and I-401 carried three float-plane bombers intended to strike targets such as the Panama Canal, San Francisco, and …

I was talking with Microsoftian Scott Woodgate yesterday and he let me know of a lacuna in my toolbox: BizTalk 2004 has a forward-chaining RETE-based rules engine. I've never heard of anyone using this technology (BizTalk's implementation, I mean -- I've used (and written) rules engines before). Dang. Not enough hours …

My latest SD Times column is on Microsoft's Smart Client strategy. Funny story: when I wrote this, the acronym “Ajax” hadn't yet been invented...

The DevX Office portal has opened and, waddya' know?, I've got an article about using XML to transfer data to/from Office applications.

MSNBC has an interactive Flash app that provides bracketed competition for comedies. My Final Four was “Austin Powers“ vs. “Something About Mary“ and “Spinal Tap“ vs. “Dr. Strangelove,“ with “Something About Mary“ going up against “Strangelove“ for the crown.

Fun, but how did “Pee Wee's Big Adventure” not make the …