News Gator & Outlook 2003

If you use NewsGator,  and Outlook 2K3, a "search folder" set to all the folders is much faster than News Gator's top-level page.

Blogged on a Tablet PC

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PDC presentations

Quite a few of the presentations from this year's [PDC]{.caps} are now available in Microsoft Producer format. The nice thing is that you get videos from the demos integrated into the presentation as well. Very nice.

[iunknown.com]

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J2EE 1.4 spec certified - Infoworld Staff

J2EE 1.4 is now official, Sun announced this week.
[InfoWorld: Top News]

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Conference Economics

Martin Spedding clarifies that he's criticizing PNC on a strictly economic basis. This is perfectly valid: consider that the benefits of a conference accrue primarily to the individual while the cost is borne primarily by companies. And the value of a conference is delivered primarily by speakers and attendees, but …

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Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'

A Silicon Valley computer programmer has been arrested for threatening to torture, kill and send a 'package full of Anthrax spores' to employees of the company he blames for bombarding his computer with spam promising to enlarge his penis. via [Wired News]

Oughtn't his defense be "But they opted-in to …

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Martin Spedding: "Was going to the PDC really worth it?" Interesting question....

Martin Spedding wonders "Was going to the PDC really worth it?" and Scoble sez "I'd say there's a huge amount of value in actually being there" via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Spedding essentially says that he goes to the PDC to "get an edge" and, now that conferences put up presentations …

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C++/CLI candidate base document now available

Today the C++/CLI candidate base document was posted, and it's freely available for download.  via [Herb Sutter's Blog]

This describes the C++/CLI extensions discussed at PDC but not available in the PDC bits. Let the studying begin...!

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According To A CNET Paraphrase Of An IDC Report A Hrefhttprsscomcom2100101135109870htmlpartrssamptagfeeda

According to a CNET paraphrase of an IDC report, IT outsourcing fears misplaced. But the article contains this seemingly absurd statement: "Services tasks that may be affected by offshore outsourcing include maintenance and support, implementation and operations--activities that IDC views as requiring low skills and that involve repeatability. Hardcore business …

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Jon Udells Investigating A Bayesian RSS Categorizer Bayesian S

Jon Udell's investigating a Bayesian RSS categorizer. Bayesian spamfilters correlate the probability of words (such as "v1agra" or "ontology") appearing in an email message; if the aggregate probability from all the words in an email exceeds a certain threshold, the email is put in a specific folder. The blog correlary …

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Difference between graphics and ink blogging

I have no idea of the capabilities of Microsoft's ink blogging tools, but IMO the real ink blogging solution will be one that stores ink on the server and returns ink if the client sends up an appropriate MIME type. Only if the client is incapable of rendering ink will …

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