This is the story of an inspirational speech that, well – wasn’t. I went to a divisional meeting recently – lots of people, lots of powerpoint. The topics were a bit dry, and the last speaker was clearly trying to drum up some excitement...

I made the following challenge over on Channel 9 – anyone care to take up the gauntlet? “That takes me back - when I started at Microsoft eight years ago, I worked in the Windows build lab. This was back when we were working on SUR, and...

If you’ve ever coded in C, you owe it to yourself to check out the (fully functional) programs at this link: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~rhoads/Obfuscated_C/obfuscate.html Here is one of the programs presented: char*lie; double time, me= !0XFACE...

Apparently a professor (and ham radio enthusiast) from the University of Rhode Island has invented a new kind of radio antenna that performs as well as antennae three to nine times larger. The article mentions walkie-talkies as a possible application...