In a great interview on Gizmodo, Bill Gates and Joel Johnson (?) squabble about DRM. Despite his disclaimer that he was intimidated, the interviewer challenges Gates boldly. Gates responds (in part), by saying that you have to start from the question "'should there be confidential information?'" (such as for medical records …

Introducing COmega is a good overview of what is probably the most obviously startling thing about COmega -- it's attempt to bridge XML / Object / Relational worlds with built-in syntax. I'm not sure that this is going to be COmega's biggest contribution to the mainstream (I suspect that it's threading techniques using …

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My father just died after a struggle with cancer. I won't be posting for a bit.

I bought Tom Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons" from http://www.ereader.com/ and enjoyed it well emough, but don't think I'll ever re-read it. I'm willing to pass on the file (in ereaders's proprietary format) to the first person who asks for it. Send me an email -- lobrien -atsign- …

Ah hah! No leading / on the FTP Path: www/knowing.net/images

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First, the more serious resolutions inspired by the tsunami tragedy:

• treasure loved ones and the short time we get in this life;
• give more;
• be more humble about the affairs of Man

Second, the fun ones:

• do a 3 minute free-dive (my personal best is a 2:51 dive in …

I am working on “Weka Wiki”: an ink-based Wiki (”Weka” being the Hawaiian word for “squid ink”). All pages will be rendered on any machine (as bitmaps on mundane machines), but the only way to edit ink-based pages will be with a Tablet PC. My question for the inkernet: when …

Greg Hughes came up with the idea of donating all AdSense revenue pending at the new year to disaster relief.

Journal Reader Component for Tablet PC SDK 1.7  [via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Microsoft Download Center]

Note that the documentation contains samples that read " Dim jntReader As New Microsoft.Ink.JournalReader()" and similar. In fact, you can't construct a JournalReader object, you'll use the static (shared in VB.NET) method …