Oh, and I try not to let my politics enter my writing, so I'll just make the observation that it's certain that tomorrow more people will vote for Gray Davis to (stay) Governor than will vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger to (become) Governor.
more ...Ah'm so tahred. Tina and I spent the weekend preparing a submission for The Amazing Race and, on top of that, we not only had parties Friday and Saturday night, we hosted a dinner party last night. I spent the whole day today finishing an article that I should have …
more ...This month's Java Developer's Journal "takes it up a notch" in terms of betraying the best service to the readers for advertising bucks. For awhile, JDJ has been selling portions of its cover space to advertisers, imitating the snap-off "belly band" that costs a little more but doesn't actually interfere …
more ...Ink blogging with text recognition. Metaweblog API. App & code coming soon...
Blogged on a Tablet PC
more ...Has anyone programmed Radio Userland using C# or VB.NET? I don't want to get involved in religious wars about blogging APIs, all I want is an example that shows how to create a blog post using .NET objects like HttpWebRequests. My first attempt just timed out and Google isn't …
more ...Oh, by the way, can I suggest a Let's Bash Class-Action Lawsuits Day? I just received some notices from the California-Microsoft settlement: \$1.1 billion dollars?, gee, maybe I'll get some real money... let's see... \$16 for each Windows or MS-DOS operating system, \$29 for each Office... oh, and if …
more ...Philip Greenspun had Let's Bash Microsoft Day over the weekend and I couldn't resist Scoble-baiting. Sure enough, Scoble defended the Outlook / VBA security model: "...it's impossible to double-click on executables in Outlook 2003, so the chances you'd get a virus now are very small...." Oh dear, now I am worried …
more ...I love the Internet. I just spent the past, oh let's see, 1:22 trying to figure out why the "OK" Button in my .NET CF program disappears when I recycle a dialog a bunch of times. So finally I Google for the problem and, boom!, I discover that it's …
more ..."Alternate Programming Languages for .NET" got approved as a BOF gathering at the PDC! Since I'll be the host, I guess now I really do need to get a room...
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