Rob Bushway data-mined the buzz about Origami to reveal that a lot of Tablet PC users don't carry their existing Tablets around as much as they might claim. It's a good catch. I have 3 Tablets (how ridiculous is that?) and have to admit in all honesty that somewhere over …

As always, the last weeks of January are present-time for those of us who are judges in the Jolt Awards, which I launched 16 years ago (how old I am. How very old.)

This year, two books that I thought were exceptional didn't make the final ballot: Vincent Maraia's The …

Don Demsak brings up the question of making money off blogging. This is appealing to me, not so much because I like blogging but because I make, in most years, the majority of my money by writing. So, although you wouldn't know it from the quality of the writing on …

I liked King Kong quite a bit, and I'll say that the special effects of Kong's face are the best I've ever seen. But in most of the action scenes, I thought the effects were a notch below Lord of the Rings. The dinosaur chase scene I thought was really …

In Vincent Maraia's The Build Master (recommended) there's a helpful little chart on the size in lines of code for Windows NT:

Ship Date Product Dev Team Size Test Team Size Lines of code (LoC) Jul-93 NT 1.0 (released as 3.1) 200 140 4-5 million Sep-94 NT 2 …

At the PDC, I bought a bluetooth "Freedom" keyboard, unaware that at the time there were no drivers available for the Tablet PC. Although Freedom eventually released a driver, the keyboard is unacceptable for typing.

I then purchased a wireless keyboard from Motion (reduced to \$89). It arrived promptly but …