According to BusinessWeek, Microsoft is cutting features in Longhorn in order to achieve a first-half 2006 ship date. BusinessWeek says that the biggest casualty will be WinFS, the metadata store that would go beyond things like size and creation date to track an enormous number of attributes about files. BusinessWeek …

There are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell "viagra" using standard spammer substitution techniques. So I thought: "Wow, what a great example for explaining closures in C# 2.0!" but then I realized that some creep would probably use the code to, y'know, generate 600 quintillion …

Barracude 160GB SATA drive discounted to \$99 at CompUSA. I post this because it's the first time that I've seen a SATA drive used as a come-on. Okay, a couple of these and I'll finally get my New Guinea video going...

I was wrong: you can watch Windows Media video at higher-than-normal speed (1.4x) (thanks Jonathan!). The pitch isn't shifted down, but it's perfectly comprehensible. So I d/l'ed a couple Channel 9 videos, more to judge the general premise of videoblogging than to react to the content in particular …

Microsoft has turned on a new marketing ... er ... communications blog called "Channel 9" whose stated goal is to create transparency into Microsoft's internal development processes. There's a Channel 9 doctrine which is basically a restatement of the Cluetrain Manifesto. There's lots of video snippets. Personally, I never download video snippets …

Just the other day, I was so damned sick of not having a persistent object image that I downloaded Cincom Smalltalk. Ah, Smalltalk! It's been years, my old friend... Where were we when last me met? Hmmm... where the heck's the object for a network query?

Anyway, Sean Malloy …

Microsoft's Robert Scoble calls himself "a human aggregator": he reads 1400+ Weblogs per day relating to his position as a Microsoft evangelist. (Perhaps everyone reading this blog knows of Scoble, but just in case...)

People who filter hundreds of blogs can provide tremendous value: they relieve readers of a reading …

There's been a small uptick in mentions of RentACoder. I subscribed to RentACoder's mailing list and what it primarily establishes is that freelance programming markets are years from maturity. The majority of RFPs are "I need a clone of xyz.com: \\(200," or "I need an email program that automatically …

Ted Neward scooped the MS-Sun announcement.

Okay, this sounds like an April Fool's Joke, but it isn't: in the past week or so, the middle knuckle of my middle finger has started hurting. A moment ago, I just flicked the scroll bar on my mouse and had a serious shooting pain as my finger "tented": I …