Today is that fateful day when Microsoft launches the venerable iPod competitor, the Zune. From all reports the Zune is pretty craptacular . Everything from a bizarre song sharing feature to not even playing previous Microsoft DRM-ed music. I really don't get it, if Microsoft is going to take a stab at the market why [...]
It seems that Microsoft is hiring someone to explore bringing Ruby, my new favorite language, to the .Net CLR
Few days ago I mentioned the debacle of Vista slipping yet again. Then this story hits the blogosphere. It pissed off quite a few folks and the truth is the story is pretty lame. If Microsoft had to re-write 60% of Vista it would take far longer than the few weeks slip they announced. Either [...]
Wow, Microsoft just slipped Vista again. This is monumental news, the 2007 season will be much bleaker for computer retailers without computer & spiffy new Microsoft OS to hype, then again, maybe Apple will wise up and get wider distribution of their computer. Something serious must be up inside of Microsoft, reading the blogs of [...]
Google is sponsoring a brilliant series of talks in their New York city office. I unfortunately missed Guido Van Rossum (you can catch it on google video) last month. This evening I had the opportunity to listen to Andy Hertzfeld reminisce about the good old days at Apple computer and the building of Apple, the [...]
Best prank ever can be found over at Bruce Schneier’s blog Schneier on Security, prank description can be found here.
From Goncha’s Weblog we have lisp poetry. Lisp is a “special” language that generates lots of feelings. John McCarthy, father of lisp, is proud. Speaking of John McCarthy, check out his commentary page. His commentary is fascinating and sure to generate controversy. I wish he would setup a blog and publish more frequently (& I [...]
Even the packaging looks amazing, see it all after the jump…
Before its even officially released a patch exists to run OSX 10.4.4 on many non-Apple Intel Systems. Amazing… Get it at: http://maxxuss.hotbox.ru/patch_8g1165.html
If you haven’t seen the new wordpress.org go see it now. I can’t wait to install it, looks really slick. Now all I need is some time… By the way, Happy Holidays and all that…