My Developer Evangelist Thom Robbins has laid down the Code Camp Manifesto. This is yet another proud example of the NE Area Community leading in the world of .NET and Microsoft related community activities. Bravo. BTW, here is the Code Camp site.  [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Sam Gentile's Blog]

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Christopher Hawkins takes on Joel Spolsky. Stands up for independent consultants. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

[Apparently, Joel pooh-poohed 1-person consultancies, saying “It's just having a job. Another job like everyone else. You're not independent…” Really? Gee, I took six weeks off this year while I …

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Ellen Simonetti: I was fired [from Delta Airlines] for blogging. Michael Gartenberg reacts. [via]{style="font-style:italic"}
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[Gartenberg’s reaction boils down to the fact that (a) it’s not as simple as that – Simonetti’s firing seems to have more to do with her …

3Leaf have posted an initial draft of their spec for Arcs of Fire and the Tablet PC SDK:

http://ea.3leafdev.com/2004/12/draft_version_o.html

Check it out here.

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According to Microsoft's Frank Gocinski, "Microsoft Office has shipped their context manifests for the Tablet PC Platform [December 16], they are available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=31634d79-34ad-494d-8108-80085ace23be&DisplayLang=en

Contextual Awareness is a key part of the Tablet PC 2005 O/S, it enables applications …

[Scott on Writing] reports on Brian Bischof and his page on the ins and outs of self-publishing, which Brian calls Self-Publishing Tips.  Along with http://www.fonerbooks.com/pod.htm this makes for very interesting reading.

Although I think my book-writing experience was particularly horrible, anecdotal evidence seems to show …

[This is real cool, Arin pointed us to the work Cornell Computational Synthesis group is doing around freehand sketching. The project is called 3-D Journal and it’s a demonstration of live sketching, written specifically for TablePC in C#.]{style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"}

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…snorkeling rocks!... my first snorkeling expedition ever. At first, I was blown away at the clarity of what I could see under the water and the ease with which I could breath (I expected to swallow a lot of water). Then, I was completely freaked out at the shear number …

*David Pescovitz: This person assembled mechanical logic gates from Lego [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"}* [Boing Boing]

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*Advertising Ridiculum Does anybody remember when magazines used to put the table of contents just inside the front cover…Is there a limit to how much magazines are willing to annoy their readers to please their advertisers? via* Eric.Weblog()

The answer is “No, there is not a limit.” The …