The January '04 CACM's lead letter is a smackdown of Hans Moravec and the concept that more MIPS is the path to AI. (When really it's spam that will lead to AI.) Anyway, the author tersely makes the excellent points that people such as Moravec are again making the argument …

Nemerle is a new hybrid (functional, object-oriented and imperative) programming language for the .NET platform.

via [Lambda the Ultimate]

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/269.aspx

An excellent blogicle (blog article) describing each of the paths in ASP.NET, and what they actually point to. via [Kent Sharkey's blog]

With this add-in you can permanently remove hidden and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Word 2003/XP, Excel 2003/XP, and PowerPoint 2003/XP files. 
via [Early Adopter Weblog]

Everyone needs this add-in. In the past 6 months, I've received 3 Press Releases with embarassing …

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A recent CACM has an article on CAPTCHAs (those visual problems used to defeat registration 'bots). The article made the point that solving a CAPTCHA requires advancing the state-of-the-art of artificial intelligence and image recognition. Similarly, the spammers have begun using Markov chains to fool spam tools that work at …

ReSharper is very early, the only refactoring this first version supports is "rename..." The license also expires in two days! So you needn't rush to the download site quite yet...

Here are links that I (Larry O'Brien) have been meaning to post (the "I"s and "me" in the following are the original authors):

http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6c883fbb-16d3-467f-a028-110e9078132a 

If you follow the rumor mill, you may have heard of X# or "Xen", the crazy next-generation …

Rise of Service-Orientation