Snow April 3rd 2005

An anime style adventure. It is a bit graphic but well told. The producers use flash to animate and tell their story.I like some anime but I am not into the violence for violence sake - type anime. This has violence like most anime but the story is well told and is probably of much interest to those who like a well told action story with ...

Can anyone tell me why  there is so much hype about the IPod? There are competing products out there but I see companies such as BMW, Mercedes Benz etc. creating interfaces and adapters to the product. It seems to me that the popularity of the IPod is driven by the news media. Am I wrong? What am I missing? What is so special about the ...

Steganography - The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography. I recently came across a group of articles that discuss Steganography by Corinna John, age 24, from Germany. I am not easily impressed but this girl is a heavy hitter. She is an advanced programmer who ...

Check out the latest poll results concerning favorite .NET language. Very interesting results. I was pleasantly surprised to see that C# is winning. Why do I like C# better? Because VB.NET is tooo verbose and the syntax is not good for an object oriented language.   What .NET Language are you using? function getRadioValue ...

I predict that in 10 years, open source software will be the dominant product line used by major corporations around the world. The reason I believe this is because the move by corporations to continue to cut cost, more specifically, IT cost, will draw corporations to use the open source model.  Today, Microsoft's licensing model is ...

Whoa! What have I been doing lately! I have been missing the “World Chess Championship”! Grandmasters Kramnik and Leko are fighting for the title.If you are interested, you can observe the game at chessclub.com. Unfortunately, Tony Rook has been in a car accident so you will not be able to listen to commentaries on his radio show ...

They've done some re-modeling in Building 20 here in Redmond, including a nice new firewall for the server farm. Server racks with Firewall 2.0 installed. Hack this one and you'll get your fingers burned.

I have to admit that I'm a lot better at admiring a nice set of colors to serve as a “palette” for a web page than I am at picking the colors from scratch. I also find it hard to be imaginatative in picking nice looking complementary colors, given a “main” color. It had been some time since I google for “color ...