Is everyone else seeing a sudden increase in spam with PDF attachments? I'm not sure if they are payload-bearing virii or just stock spam (many seem to have "investor alert" nonsense in their title). It's just amazing to me the level of idiot on which these apparently-profitable scams are built …

The owners of Patent 5,056,000 have whacked Sony with a suit, on the basis that the Cell processor in the PS3 is a violator. The claims seem center on the idea of an "interconnection switch" that locks the access of a single processor to a particular bank of …

I think programming languages need the complement to "deprecated." It's for those moments when "YAGNI" conflicts with "But I just know I will..." Less imperative than a TODO, but more than a mental note.

Revell models. With the plastic trees that you twisted every numbered part out of? Rubber glue, Testor paint? If I were to make a reference to this experience as a metaphor, would anyone under the age of 40 know what I was talking about?

Is there any utility that displays on your task bar all the applications running within your Virtual PC / VMWare / Remote Desktop Session? I'd really like such a utility. It ought to be possible, at least if the virtual machine is network-reachable. If I felt that I could sell more than …

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Kurt Schrader wonders if he's the first person to hit a point in a Rails app where he wonders if he's "finally hit the point where the cost of maintaining our code in Ruby is higher than the savings by writing it in Ruby in the first place?"

He says …

Huh. I just received a link in email to "my" August issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal. I'm not going to post the link I got, since it's undoubtedly linked to me, but can anyone access http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/ddj0807/index.php?

It's a Flash-based interface, but even …

Google is joining Intel in putting more cash into the kitty for the Turing Award. To me, \\(250K is nonsensical -- you should either go for the million (Who Wants To Be A CS Millionaire?) or maintain the super-coolness of the \<a href="http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/aboutus/jcfields/fields …

Come and get it

P.S. I really, really like this use of VPCs.