November 22, 2006 spout

Dammit!

There are a very few games I could call “great.” Doom (of course). Half-Life 2. Burnout Revenge. Mario Kart. And last week, I added another game:...

November 13, 2006 spout

Costco + Busted Xbox 360 = Happiness

After a scant 6 months of service, my Xbox 360 yielded up the dreaded “to play this disc, put it in an Xbox 360 console” error (where do you think I...

November 11, 2006 fun

Pies & Marketing Guys

Pies & Marketing Guys

It all started with a bet that my new marketing guy could meet his promised numbers by a certain date. Figure 1 shows me reading his results report...

November 8, 2006 spout

Our Long National Nightmare is Over

Since at least 2001 we’ve been stuck in a quagmire of missteps, indecision, corruption and the eroding of our freedoms. Some of us feared it would...

November 7, 2006 .net

.NET Framework 3.0 (aka WinFX) Has Shipped!

After a monumental amount of work, the .NET Framework 3.0 has been completed! It ships out of the box in Vista, but for down level clients (Windows...

November 4, 2006 spout

Pay As You Go Phones For the Boys

Back in writer avoidance mode, I did some research into PAYG phones for the boys based on some recommendations from friends, colleagues and...

October 30, 2006 money

Mark Twain on Investing

OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May,...

October 28, 2006 fun

Project Life Cycle

Project Life Cycle

This one’s been around a while and just feels so true… Sat, 10/28/2006 10:24am...


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