Courtesy of NASA.

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So far, I haven't been impressed with the "post pc" landscape. In fact, most of it has me very concerned about the future of computing, with the tendency for locked-down "app stores" and devices that are more like internet appliances than real computers. Looking at alternative options to my Nokia N900 has me seriously discouraged and makes one ( Read more... )

Really, it is fun. I also learned a lot about incuding User Controls in DLLs and imbedding image resources.

Now, if I can only get Infragistics to respond back about a problem with their control, this will be ready to go.

Supposed to be the new great thing that makes client-side web programming easier. So, at work I pulled a book off the shelf and started getting down to business ( Read more... )

Ok, this could be fun in a cheesy way: fantasy LARPers accidentally summon a succubus.

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Tonight the last original drive failed in my NAS. All four drives failed at some point, with two of them being in the past month. I've had it for 4 years. I've also never had a hard drive fail. (Well, other than the 1TB drive I put into my Tivo that I'm waiting for a replacement for. All Western Digital ( Read more... )

arstechnica: Firefox update policy: the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla

And so it is with the Web. A not-insignificant number of sites have to avoid using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript techniques developed over the last five years, because they have to cater to browsers like Internet Explorer 6 or 7. As the numbers using these browsers drop, sites ( Read more... )

Sorting Algroithms as Folk Dances

My sister e-mailed me telling me that she discovered Farscape on Netflix. My oldest nephew also loves it and my sister can't watch it without her presence.

So, today is random t-shirt day on Woot, so I ordered a couple for my boy (since XLs were out of stock). Considering what I've seen, we should get something that is acceptable for him ( Read more... )