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I’ve been reading about some of the tenets of Xtreme Programming (XP) and in particular the use of Unit Testing. At work I sent out the following article: Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing Very interesting, but in real life I … Continue reading →

Note to self: when you need to see traffic, via an ncurses console… don’t forget about the ole Trafshow.

Unless Nantero destroys the entire market for memories (SRAM, DRAM, FLASH, MAGNETIC, OPTICAL), another company I was watching was Matrix Semiconductor. These guys have been working on a 3D chip layout for memory. They were specifically targetting the digital camera … Continue reading →

A while back, there was some /. posting (way back when I used to waste my time reading that site), on Nantero. This is one of those new nano-tech startups that announced some fantastic technology a while back. The nutshell … Continue reading →

Read this excerpt from http://www.mindjack.com/feature/gne.html Stewart Butterfield: When I was really little I had an Intellivision, and though I enjoyed the car racing game, Astrosmash, and Advanced D&D, it was Utopia (a very early sim game where you controlled an … Continue reading →

A little while back, there was this Web 2.0 conference. A bunch of dot-com bubble luminaries went there to talk about how the web is alive and well, and doing neat new stuff. (ie. “We were right after all”) Ok, … Continue reading →

I went to a link that was directed to a Yahoo group yesterday. I had this odd feeling. As I looked I noticed that this was Yahoo groups. Wow! Being an ex-egroupie, I was impressed, it looked a lot better … Continue reading →

It seems like a day doesn’t go by where I don’t read about Elliot Spitzer is bringing some powerful person or corporation to justice. Why aren’t the other state Attorney Generals getting the press? Why isn’t our federal government doing … Continue reading →