“Sincerity is not enough.” We have heard from enough sincere people to last a lifetime already. Just because you believe it’s true doesn’t make it true.

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Nail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism.

Get yours.

This is a helpful image from Michael Russell. I don't like the fundamental concept of “role-based“ IDEs but it looks like that's what we're going to have:

The headline in this survey in Computerworld is that C# is the most-used corporate development language, but my eye caught on some other numbers:

22% of respondents said they were developing 64-bit applications. 24% said they were developing wireless applications. Both those numbers are total bull. Both those areas require …

My notes on Bill Gates knighthood ceremony finally were posted on Friday.

In which I extoll the power of Agilix InfiNotes and show source code for note-taking applications on the Tablet PC.

A comedy writer named Nate Kushner received an IM from a college student, who commissioned him to write her a paper on Hinduism. Because it’s on Hinduism, Kushner could refer to such things as the “Shudahelupta class,” without necessarily alerting the student that she was turning in a patently …

Converting Journal Notes to XML, SVG, and OneNote [via ]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"}[brains-N-brawn.com\< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />]

This is the kind of ruthless competence that gives a bad name to the rest of us writers.

Yesterday, the ocean was flat as a pancake, so I called pau hana at 2 and Tina and I went down to 2-Step. As soon as we got there, we could see a big pod of dolphins in close to the reef edge. Better still, we had our best freediving …

::: {.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 …