Triple Threat
While waiting on Whidbey beta 2 bits to finish downloading this morning, I took my R/C warbirds out to the driveway and snapped some pics. This is the first time […]
Check Out the Digital Duo
My old friend Steve Manes is at it again. He and I were columnists together years ago at PC Magazine, and when I go to Redmond during baseball season, he […]
NYC at the Speed of Light
Yesterday was a long day. I got up at 4:15 a.m., drove to the airport, and caught a 5:50 a.m. flight to LaGuardia. I cabbed into the city and did […]
At Long Last: Beta 2!
It’s official: Whidbey beta 2 is out. You can download beta 2 of Visual Web Develeper from http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/getvwd/. It’s time to begin porting all that beta 1 code to beta […]
Random CompSci Research Paper Generator
Francesco Balena turned me on to this litte gem written by some MIT CompSci students: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ Next time I’m asked to submit a paper for a conference, I’ll know exactly […]
XBox in Iraq
I just received e-mail from a friend in the 278th. His unit just returned from an “outing” that had them out of the office for several days. He e-mailed me […]
Up for Air
Whew! I’ve come up for air after a busy last few weeks. I’m still on a high after spending spring break in Grand Cayman, where my family logged a total […]
Sad News
No sooner had I posted the previous entry about the XBox making it to the 278th than I read that their unit had suffered its first casualty in Iraq: http://www.wbir.com/news/search_article.aspx?storyid=24231 […]
Videos for Heroes
The 278th is still waiting for their XBox to arrive. It should arrive any day now. It seems packages take anywhere from two weeks to a month to make it to […]