Category Archives: General

I tried out the Yahoo Music service for the free trial the other week. Overall, the experience wasn’t bad. If you are going to use it, I would recommend having one of the WMA compatible MP3 players to use with … Continue reading →

Well the unbelievable news about Apple and Intel is out. Apple always manages to get my attention these days. To a lot of people, they find all of this to be incredible. Actually, I ran Mac OS X on Intel … Continue reading →

A long time ago, I wrote an article that got posted to Slashdot about the benefits of high-speed Non Volatile RAM systems. There is definitely a spot for these devices in the memory hierarchy. Once these start showing up, I … Continue reading →

The new Intel and AMD dual-core procs are finally out. So far it looks like AMD has a good lead on Intel again. As a result, Intel is dropping the prices on their introductory dual-core processors to the $200 – … Continue reading →

Based on an email recommendation/conversation with Mark Jen, I tried out the newly shipped MSN Desktop Search. Wow. Initially I didn’t see a difference, but now I’m really digging it. It has had no effect on my machine or my … Continue reading →

Today I was looking at some code on the internets and eventually ended up looking at XML Pull parsers. I’m not a huge fan of XML. I feel it is bloated, too easy to abuse, and too easy to get … Continue reading →

Here is a neat tip for FireFox users who also enjoy Gmail. With a few tools, you can get the much needed ‘Move To Trash’ button that everybody wants. First install Grease Monkey – this add-in allows you to modify … Continue reading →

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 →