As I've already mentioned, I had the pleasure of meeting a certain gentleman by the name of Dennis E. Hamilton earlier this week. He's a fascinating chap. As we were talking it became apparent to me he was a true hacker - one of the originals. Dennis...

I checked my mail just now and got a message from the CEO of Meetup.com , Sott Heiferman, explaining that his company has just closed an investment round with eBay. He doesn't say how much, and stresses that they've not been acquired. Here's the relevant...

The Windows Live news just keep coming....this time it's Windows Live Search, with Macros! Nathan over at Inside Microsoft takes a look ... Microsoft Gadgets has a collection of them to play with.... Brandon LeBlanc created two Macros himself...

More on Origami. This time on Channel 9 . "Otto Berkes is the architect (now general manager) behind the Ultra-Mobile PC team, code-named Origami. We have a conversation about Origami and the vision behind it. More on what was announced today is...

You may or may not have come across the Origami buzz in the last couple of weeks... Well, the mastermind behind the campaign, a chap called 'Dustin', has posted a quick explanation of the campaign and its planning over at the Project Origami team blog...

The BBC reports: "A US-led team found the animal last year in waters 2,300m (7,540ft) deep at a site 1,500km (900 miles) south of Easter Island, an expert has claimed." What surprises me is how quickly they found a hairy lobster expert. -...

Tailrank , Memeorandum and Megite (no permalink, sorry) have a bunch of links to posts relating to the Live.com news .

Niels Ferguson, developer & cryptographer within Microsoft's System Integrity team posted earlier this week : "Two weeks ago BBC News published an article speculating about a possible “back door” in BitLocker ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics...

Ray Ozzie had an idea he's taking further: "The idea was based on using a simple and consistent user model to wire-the-web that would assist individuals in creating their own mesh of interconnections - both web-to-web and web-to-PC. ...Simply stated...

Pet Shop Boys protest at ID cards . We're saved.

Now here's an Attention data experiment. This time by J Wynia . "I’ve read several times that if they have age, sex and zip code, they can get really pretty accurate targeting to an individual. So, why is the information about me not easily available...

As Matt Terenzio has noticed, Adam Green is playing with some dynamically generated OPML files he's creating using a variety of services. Adam call the current output an Annotated Reading List . During the development process he discovered some 'undocumented...

This was a fun night - a bunch of blogs.msdn.com/* bloggers having dinner last week. Left to right: Josh Ledgard , Gretchen Ledgard , Alex Barnett (er, me, focusing on food...), Raymond Chen (who apparently writes like a girl ), Betsy Aoki (who apparently...

You can now get advice from top O'Reilly and Dr. Dobbs Journal experts and authors on the brand new ASP.NET 2.0 Training Center . It is sponsored by Microsoft, but as Tim O'Reilly points out , it's not just ASP.NET pitch: "What's particularly...

Unless you're a kid or teacher, you've probably not heard of the 'Kids Programming Language' ( KPL ). KPL is not a Microsoft language like C# or VB, but a language Microsoft started to support and promote 'officially' last year after some Microsoft...

What originally caught my attention was # 7 of Scott Karp's 'You know if you're a geek if you...' But then I read Mark Devlin 's comment on Scott's post: "The Web 2.0 uncertainty principle: If you understand it, you don’t know it." It all...

Julien Couvreur has cool little Greasemonkey script - " MSDN Fix Titles" . It, er, fixes MSDN titles. So the titles are more usable. And readable. Which is cool in one way, but another way, it is uncool in that it is needed in the first place. Anyway...

On the Singularity, I'm SL5 . Pretty sure of it. You? Via the learned JWB .

Time to get a little patriotic... Fellow Brit, James Governior, moaned the other day (quite rightly in my opinion) about the lack of gusto and activity happening in the web start-up space in the UK. Now, it may be just a perception thing, but it seems...

Dave Winer announces a draft OPML 2.0 spec for review: "Today the public review of OPML 2.0 begins, with the publication of the DRAFT spec and the opening of a mail list for the purpose of reviewing the spec." Here's the the draft spec . From...

Information aesthetics points out a site that categorizes BBC News Headlines as 'good', 'bad' or neutral" called Mood News : "a linguistic system categorizes news headlines as different 'moods' using keyword scoring from a vocabulary of 160 words...

Sounds fancy, don't it? Philip's getting a 'convergence' meme attack...so much so, he's looking for other convergent bloggers who are going to the Convergence event in Dallas, and converge with them. - Tags: convergence

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has more details plus screenshots : "Microsoft’s Live.com is launching a preview version of a new service called Street-Side today (link will be live around 12 PST today). Street-Side will augment the Live Local service...

Frank Arrigo has been working on a cool little project Down Under. It's called TalkTechBlogs . "This project has been a dream of mine for a while. It provides a single aggregated view of all the local bloggers in the OPML, as well as the ability...

Kent had a bit of a surprise to find that he was related to Meryl Streep . So I tried to find out more about my own past over at myheritage.com . This is what turned up: Funny thing is, I bought Tracy's 2005 album just last week. I didn't...