Thanks, Robert and Sam! I'm now in Orkut! But Scoble humiliates me further. If there's one thing more humiliating than begging for an invite, it's begging for an invite and having to clarify who you are.
Actually, this is evidence that Scoble lives in a future not yet distributed. I …
more ...Okay, I'll admit that it's obvious that I'm not a "connector" but surely there's at least 1 reader willing to admit knowing me.
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more ...Yukon and Whidbey have slipped to mid-2005, Microsoft has confirmed. via [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
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p dir=ltr> Ooh, that hurts. This is a big stumble on Microsoft's part. One wonders if they are actively rethinking the linkage of tools and database products... Back in September, it looked …
more ...more ...A USC roboticist has built a robot for "printing" houses that can extrude cement or adobe and shape it using trowel-manipulators to a CAD-represented spec....The key to the technology is a computer-guided nozzle that deposits a line of wet concrete, like toothpaste being squeezed onto a table.... via [Boing …
Edward Tufte is one of the leading thinkers in how to visually present information. His latest stuff, on Sparklines, is showing up on lots of the feeds I'm reading tonight. via [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
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p dir=ltr> A "sparkline" is a very compact graph that you inline with …
more ...Over on Richard Caetano's blog I see the Flight Simulator team has an SDK coming out. via [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
I'm not going to do it, but I bet you could make a cool add-on.
more ...In a response to a NYT column on outsourcing, Jim Fawcette says " Unemployment in programming is 40 percent above the national average, despite the fact that the number of people in that profession has declined rapidly for four years, and salaries are down 15 percent." Nasty numbers, if true (and …
more ...more ...James Robertson thinks that Java is an interruption in the forward progress of software development....It is nice to see people returning to serious language research again. Efforts like the Feyerabend Project and more practically focused offshoots like OOPSLA’s Onward! track and the Post-Java Workshops (as well as increasing …