"7. Windows XP: Switching User During Capture.
Never do this. Very bad things will happen."

-- Pinnacle Studio 11 Readme.doc

Microsoft's Surface is estimated to cost \$10K in its first incarnation. I've already had an interesting conversation with an entrepreneur friend who has an application that he thinks would be fantastic on Surface, but \$10K for the hardware makes it a non-starter. Although I'm sure Surface will eventually cost less …

Alan Zeichick, commenting on the release of Oracle DB 11G Beta ranks the major databases as:

1. Oracle
2. DB2
3. SQL Server
4. MySQL

I've never been a fan of DB2, but Oracle DB is a rock and I would never hesitate to recommend it. (This despite my involvement with Oracle's abysmal XML-based …

\~8AM Hawaiian == \~7PM UCT

Saved Publish On (Local) Appears At Publish Date 8:50 Today  9AM immediately 9 AM publication 9:25 Today 9:30 immediately   9:26 Today 11:30 immediately   9:30 1:30 immediately   9:32 1:45 ?   9:32 1:35 immediately   9:33 1:45 …

Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru, argues that \<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/articles-not-blogs.html"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">experts should not blog, as blogging an opinion is a commodity display of knowledge, but rather they should write longer articles, as well-researched and argued articles lie outside the …

Lava has reemerged at Pu'u O'o vent, creating a vast, slowly circulating lake of lava, as captured from the USGS cams at dawn on 7/8/07. During the day, it doesn't look like much, but try the \<a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cam/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener …

If you end up seeing this draft, but no earlier than the 8th, then LiveWriter and das Blog can schedule drafts by "Post draft to Weblog" with a scheduled date. (This was scheduled for 7/8 4AM.)

I'm still working this out, but...

I believe the key is to "Post draft to Weblog" (not "Post to Weblog" or "Save local draft").

Further, there is definitely some hinkiness relating to UCT and TZ offset.

If, at 7/3 3:20 PM HST (== 7/4 1:20 UCT), I …

\<a href="http://www.backbaypress.com/skylines.html"" target="_blank" atomicselection="true" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Since LiveWriter Beta seems to not delay publishing until the "Set publish date" time (it just time-stamps them later, which is just annoying), I will be going dark for a few days of travel. In …

Based on comments to my earlier post, I put further work into Crystal Reports XI and SQL Server Reporting Services. Both seem capable-enough in terms of handling the data volumes and seem to have similar ease-of-use as far as the ultimate end-user goes (the inexperienced programmers who will be charged …