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Last night, like the rest of the geeks out there, I tried out Google Talk. Overall, I don’t think its much to talk about. Here are my reasons: You have to have a gmail account to be a buddy or … Continue reading →

As I was looking around at C++ stuff on the net, I ran across this project on Sourceforge called Code::Blocks Studio. I think these guys have a shot at being a decent Open source replacement for visual studio. They have … Continue reading →

TheUI and Graphics: They nailed it. It is quite a good improvement over Nextstep and every other OS. No news here, everyone has been copying them for a while. It has the good ole’ NextSTEP style rendering as well… no … Continue reading →

Quite an OS, ahead of its time: http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/next/software.html

I do a lot of Microsoft development. A lot. I use Visual Studio 6.0 to do that development. This is a product that came out on September 3, 1998. It was probably designed in 1995. I’m using a 10 year … Continue reading →

At work today, Tychay shared some of his excitement over DTrace. The PHP community is discovering the benefits of this system. I also had a discussion with another co-worker about this last Friday. So this is worthy of a blog … Continue reading →

Completely self-describing, funny stuff from the Jherr – Driving Sideways http://www.bpninc.com/evideo/videomachi.mov http://www.kkmime.org/ It’s funny because it’s true.

The other day, while glancing at the news, I saw that Bush was trying to support “Intelligent Design” in the schools. Immediately, I thought he must have meant, Frank Loyd Wright or IM Pei or Ray and Charles Eams. I … Continue reading →