There's a Big Honkin' Mushroom in Oregon that covers 2,200 acres and is claimed to be the “largest living organism.” My question is whether a mushroom is a single organism or if it's communal and therefore in the same class as the Great Barrier Reef (which extends for more …

I've been doing way too much flying lately.

Have you ever noticed that the pre-flight safety briefing starts with instructions on “how to buckle a seat belt” and moves without pause through “activating your on-board oxygen mask” to “transforming safety slides into liferafts in the case of a water landing …

Oh yeah, I think I'll continue developing this...

"Our scheduling and predictability on this project has been better than it was on OS 360." -- Bill Gates, August 27, 2004

Just got off the phone with John Montgomery and Bill Schultz of Microsoft regarding today's announcements re. Longhorn. The official word is that they're announcing 3 things:

1. Longhorn client will be "broady available" sometime in 2006;
2. The Avalon (display) and Indigo (communication) subsystems of Longhorn will become available sometime to …

This is now running dasblog.

Did you miss me?

You didn't even notice I was gone, did you?

*sniff*

Well, I now live in Hawaii, and you don't, so there!

But it's kind of lonely...

... Hey, next time you come to the Big Island, let's have lunch!

This is a funny flash movie they played at JavaOne explaining the Sun-Microsoft relationship.

According to Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft is going to announce an "Express" version of Visual Studio this week targetting hobbyists and students. A few months ago, I wrote that such a thing would be a great idea.

Tim Lambert's When Think Tanks Attack does a good job of exposing Microsoft attempts at Astroturfing (paying for the appearance of "grassroots" movement). Sure enough, Microsoft hired as their chief lobbyist one of the directors of a particular think-tank that I questioned about three months ago (I'm not going to …