Bacteria Memory. Scientists have successfully stored information into artificial DNA strands and injected them into bacteria that maintained the data by reproducing. via [The Daily Nugget]

So... has anyone done the obvious corollary to this and looked for a smiley face embedded in the human genome? 

25 Pathetic Attempts to Make .NET Look Bad Fun stuff, especially the comments.

Met with Serguei Dmitriev and Eugene Belyaev of JetBrains, the makers of IDEA, the best IDE for Java. I was trying to show them some of Marin, but just as we got to the ocean, it started pouring. "We're from Russia," they said, undeterred. We walked for, oh, 3 minutes …

The future is not objects

Managage code is language-neutral, right?  No!  Right now the CLI is very much tilted in favor of Object-Oriented languages (C++, C#, VB, Java).  This is fine for now, but looking around the computing landscape leads me to a hypothesis:

Hypothesis: The interesting programming models in …

....Arguing whether keyword synchronized is better than keyword lock is all well and good, but it's irrelevant to why .NET is going to become the dominant platform for software development....: An article I posted to the DOTNET-CX mailing list today.

I'm trying to stretch the definition of "holiday season" over the weekend as an excuse for hacking up an xBack server for .NET that works with intermittently-connected Radio clients (the cool thing about Radio Userland is that it runs locally on your work machine and uploads static HTML pages …

Friday Five

1. Do you wear any jewelry? What kind?

I wear my gold claddagh wedding ring.

2. How often do you wear it?

I only take it off when I'm swimming / diving.

3. Do you have any piercings? If so, where?

I have a pierced ear, but haven't worn …

I had fun over the holidays, jazzing around with genetic algorithms, C#, and the Pocket PC. Time to go back to work and finish some articles...

Why is pingback / trackback a good design? Why isn't the referer [sic] header the way to automatically track pages that link to you? I was thinking of writing a pingback server for .NET, but on closer look, it seems inelegant. I only had a few hours sleep last night / this …

Friday Five:

1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?

Writing Thinking in C#, a 1,000-page technical book. Although I started it in September of 2001, I did 80% of the work in 2002. * *

2. What was your biggest disappointment?

Despite having the content of Thinking in C# essentially …