ECMA Technical Group 5 is charged with standardizing C++ bindings to the CLI. Progress has been slowed by the lack of 200-watt backlights for the laptops.

In other Amazon Friday Sale news, they've got a Tivo Series 2 40 for \\(214 plus a \\)50 rebate. (Hmmm... actually, Tivo.com has refurbished units for \\(150). You still have to pay \\)300 for the service and \$99 if you want to play MP3s.

If you've been putting off that decision to jump into non-linear editing, now is the time!

I wanted to demonstrate the SpamBayes plug-in for the school, and I realized I ought to try the screen-capture feature of the free Windows Media Encoder 9. The results were stunning. via [Jon's Radio]

I used that codec for a video on programming the Tablet PC I did last year …

Neowin is reporting that Microsoft has broadened the alpha test of its next-gen Tablet PC operating system, "Lonestar," to all BetaPlace testers. Last week, Microsoft execs told us to expect Lonestar to go beta in late February or early March. The final Lonestar release target is still June.
[Microsoft Watch …

... this reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend a few days ago in which he asked if I knew of a company that provided technical support for LAMP-based small businesses. "Don't know of any," I said, dollar signs appearing in my eyes. (Which relates to my suspicion …

...It's a common theory that the reason that Apple isn't where Microsoft is today is because of their refusal to license the MacOS during the mid 80s....Sun's refusal to embrace native client side widgets is what allowed Microsoft to catch up to where Java is now with .Net....via …

On my 30th birthday, I left Tina, whose hair was just beginning to grow back from her bone-marrow transplant, at 7:15 in the morning to commute into San Francisco to a job I'd get back from at 6:30 at night. On my 40th birthday, Tina and I went …

Language divergence in Whidbey

Language Divergence in Whidbey -- my latest column for SDTimes