According to Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates receives 4,000,000 emails per day. (via Alice and Bill)

You know, somehow I think that after the fabulous spam-filtering technology of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, there might, just might, be human eyes between billg@microsoft.com and the man himself.

If you've never tried dictation, you can get a sense of how it works by watching a ~~video~~ screencast I made shortly after I installed Version 8 of NaturallySpeaking. The out-of-the-box experience was dramatically better than before [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Jon's Radio]

Not long ago I had a chat …

Sheesh, I do a screencast (which is just like a podcast, only even more hip and cutting edge) of a Tablet PC program that I wrote in C# of an IDE that allows you to program your Tablet PC in Python and I don't get a traffic bump from Scoble …

When you're struck with writer's block, you're supposed to just write anything. This is what I just churned out instead of my next column:

I was awakened by my phone. You got used to that living on The Big Island. It's already noon on Wall Street by the time the …

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*[Cory Doctorow]{style=""}: I reivewed Raph Koster's brilliant Theory of Fun book (think of it as an Understanding Comics for games) here before, and now I'm delighted to see that Raph's posted a tremendous, graphic-rich picture-book in PDF format detailing the notions from the game. 4.7MB PDF Link …

I love the idea of outsourcing to rural parts of the country … [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]

As a person who’s “outsourced“ himself, first to :45 minutes from San Francisco and now to 3,000 miles from the mainland, there’s a certain temptation …

Dammit. The trailer for Star Wars 3: The Revenge of the Sith, actually looks good! I just know I'm going to get my heart broken again...[via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]

Dang, it does look good. Mostly because it features 3 characters from the original …

*Mark Frauenfelder*: The city of Pleasanton, California has come up with a funny way to punish speeders:

[The] city's traffic engineers have created a traffic signal with attitude. It senses when a speeder is approaching and metes out swift punishment. It doesn't write a ticket. It immediately turns from green …

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[Browsing Freshmeat this morning and I noticed that DB40 has gone open source…. db4objects - native Java and .NET open source object database engine and is well worth a look. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Fast Takes]]{style=""}

Ah! Object databases. Always have been The Next Big Thing. And I’m …

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We announced it last week, but the DSL Tools home page just went live today. The big thing is the Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages Technology Preview. There's also a walkthru of the tool, a newsgroup and Jochen's blog. We also published the third article in the Software …