Christmas Delight

Not all was gloom and blackness this XMas. Among the new things in our lives, several of them rocked*: Our new HP MediaServer running Windows Home...

The Sidekick Phone Sucks

I brought my son a Sidekick Slide cell phone for XMas this year and I’ve come to the conclusion that it sucks, or at least the way T-Mobile sells it...

Microsoft needs you to build Emacs.Net

Drop Doug a line...

Posting from my OLPC PC

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XBOX 360 For Pennies a Day!

In 2006, I purchased an XBOX 360 bundle from CostCo for about $550, including the console, a game and two wireless controllers. In April of 2007, my...

Conversing In Italian over the Interweb

Yesterday I got an email from a fellow named Corrado Cavalli to whom I sent a free copy of Programming WPF. When he received it and read through it,...

Here Comes Another Bubble sttto some Billy Joel song…

This is hilarious...

Win a Trip to NYC + WPF Dream Machine with Your WPF Application Stylings!

The nice folks at Lab 49 are throwing a contest for WPF programmers. The goal: take the financial data they provide and build a kick-ass WPF app...