BZ Media, the clever folk who publish SD Times, have just announced a new conference dedicated to embedded software development. Sayeth the release: "The Embedded Software Development Conference (ESDC) is the only independent, cross-platform conference completely focused on the educational needs of embedded, mobile and wireless developers. The event will …

I uninstalled XPSP2, uninstalled the Lonestar alpha, reinstalled XPSP2 and my TIP came back. Amusingly, I found this by Googling a discussion board from a few months ago where the person asking the question was breaking NDA and a Microsoft representative was very politely, but very insistently, posting "This isn't …

Any other Tablet PC users lose access to the TIP after installing XPSP2? I've already filed a report with Microsoft. I don't even see the keyboard TIP during user login.

Today, during my 692nd hour SCUBA diving, my life was jeopardized by a computer malfunction. I was trying out a new piece of equipment, an air-integrated diving computer, that replaces a "conventional" dive computer (used to track safety relating to "the bends") and two analog devices: the depth gauge and …

Do I have to say anything more to explain my Tablet PC game idea?

For those who haven't been in an arcade for the past few years, "Dance Dance Revolution" is one of the greatest games of all time. You have to move your feet in synchrony with directional arrows …

Given Yahoo's infrastructure, this is very clever. But I don't think Yahoo Groups yet provides an RSS feed. But surely that's only a matter of time.

P.S. Phipps clarifies that he didn't call OS opponents Luddites or, if he did, he didn't mean it in the popular sense of …

Simon Phipps says that those who oppose Open Source are Luddites. So is Simon saying that Jonathan Schwartz is a Luddite when he says that Sun must maintain control of the Java compatibility tests?

So there are games for the tablet. The problem is that the majority of them have something to do with words and writing. Granted, since ink is the big thing, it makes sense, but how many Scrabble and crossword clones can you have? Let's see something innovative.

For example, Toshiba's …

"...a couple of grad students at USC's business school who hate their tablets...it's gotten so laptop-friendly there, that people with tablets never use the inking feature...." .... will the Tablet PC only succeed in a convertible form, sheepishly masquerading as a "laptop with benefits"?... via [Tabula PC]

According to Microsoft's …

Oh man, where are my editors when I need them? I just sent an email that said that a polite conversation was "markedly gentile." Bwahahahahahaha... I blame Mobile, Alabama. (I once pronounced the word "sublime" as "suh-bleem" and was teased by a friend who said "Why in the world would …