Free Microsoft eBooks this week: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (!), The Flying Book by David Blatner, and Face in the Frost by John Bellairs.

I wrote  this Web page designed for phone / PDA access that allows you to discover the 3 nearest Geocaches for a given position. Returns rough bearing and range, precise lat/lon, description, and clue (ROT13 obfuscated by default).

The technology preview of WSE 2.0 provides early access to new advanced Web services capabilities. New features include a policy framework, enhanced security model, message-oriented programming model, and support for multiple hosting environments.
[Microsoft Download Center]

WAP is...

I wrote this "Mobile Forms App" so that you can find the nearest Geocache by entering your latitude and longitude from your phone. When I try to access it from my Nokia 3590 (a cheap phone, but still...), I can't load the form with the results because it's …

Free Webinar on Service-Oriented Architectures, Wednesday, July 16, 11 AM PDT (2 PM EDT)

"Topic:             "Building a Service-Oriented Architecture"
Speaker:         Daryl Plummer, Gartner Group Vice President
Date:              Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Time:              2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific, 1 hr. in length
Registration:   http://www.m7.com/gartnerseminar …

"Where's the outrage?" - Bob Dole, 1996.

I have about 500 albums, which is small for a music fan. With WM9's 2:1-3:1 lossless compression, call it 120GB (500 albums * .6 uncompressed GB / album * 1 compresssed GB / 2.5 uncompressed GB). The Nomad Zen, which I think is today's most capacious player, has 60GB of storage …

Microsoft Reader Free eBooks: This week's freebies are I Am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto, Open Innovation by Henry Chesbrough, and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.

RCA DCM215 Cable Modem reset technique: if you lose your cable connectivity, try resetting your power by physically removing the plug at the power supply (not just at the back of the modem). Apparently, this is a known issue with (at least) this particular modem.

Via Fazed, a really funny japanese table tennis video.... [via]{.768395422-10072003} [Curiosity is bliss]

[This is much, much better than The Matrix Reloaded.]{.768395422-10072003}