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This says a lot about the intelligence of some of the folks on Slashdot. Are they having a joke? Perhaps. But cheering on a virus is kind of like cheering on a terrorist. Via ExtremeTech .

shopping on Broadway today, found a great store called Yellow Rat Bastard and bought a couple of shirts, including this one . Oh mum, you'd be so proud.

wow, this is the power of blogging... Chris Pratley talks about how OneNote came about. Great post.

story from CNN.com

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At Cornell today I chatted with Basudev Chaudhuri who is a Senior Research Scientist in Software Development and Scientific Computing with a Cornell-based company called Gene Network Sciences . GNS “accelerates the drug discovery process by creating...

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A blogger from Japan writes a positive review after attending training on the soon-to-be-released BizTalk Server 2004.

This seems like a well-written site dedicated to making the design and implementation of integration solutions easier. WARNING: It's platform agnostic. :-)

According to Nature , plants seem to optimize their 'breathing' by conducting simple calculations through a distributed computing scheme. " Plants appear to 'think' , according to US researchers, who say that green plants engage in a form of problem-solving...

“The Sound Blaster Wireless Music is a small receiver module that plugs into the analog line-in or optical S/PDIF inputs of a home stereo or powered speaker system. Its built-in interface lets you use the included remote to browse, organize, download...

tim marman's got a great story to elucidate on how cold it is in New York at the moment... we're talking about catching up when I get back to Manhattan on Friday which should be fun!

I've been reading Whiskey Bar's recent “ Davos Discovers the Blogs” post and I realized a couple of things. First, that I have hardly looked at mainstream media sites for a couple of months. If I am reading online, I am usually reading...

Yesterday was day one at this brief training course I'm fortunate enough to be attending at the Cornell Theory Centre (CTC). CTC is a high-performance computing and interdisciplinary research center located on the Ithaca campus of Cornell University,...

#27: DON'T buy a smoothie when it's only -8' C outside. You know how when you drink a smoothie, you normally have to wait until the crushed ice melts before you can finish it? Well it doesn't melt in these temperatures. So you only get to drink HALF a...

Yesterday I wrote a blog entry while sitting in LAX waiting for my connecting flight to NYC. As I didn't have net access (the Starbucks in LAX apparently don't have the t-mobile hotspots), I wrote the entry in Microsoft OneNote for posting later. So,...

Here I am sitting in the Qantas Club lounge at Melbourne International Airport, on my way to NY. It's good to see Qantas Clubs have finally put in some sort of a WiFi solution! But I'm not overly impressed with Telstra's pricing. $14 for 60 minutes of...

well this was the highlight of my day : "We're getting off of our religious crusade and we're going to sell people what they want to buy," Larry Singer, Sun senior vice president of global market strategy, told IDG in an interview. Sun "in some...

I've been getting deeper into Activewords over the last couple of weeks, figuring out new ways to make it hum, and have just installed their "Knowledge Access" application . Very funky stuff: now if I select any word in any application and kit my Activewords...

As I leave for NYC in a week, I've managed to convince Mrs R (after several years of negotiation) that buying a digital camera would be a good idea (she likes her prints and old-fashioned analog photo albums and doesn't like having to mess with a PC to...

an interesting perspective from AlwaysOn about the business model of large enterprise software vendors: “Another problem is that software vendors typically develop functional components that must be 'bolted together' at the customer location...

I was very impressed recently with the customer service I received from ResultsWare, the vendor of Taskline, and I want to share the story. A week or so ago, I was reading some blog, I can't remember which, but someone mentioned an application called...

I just bought “ New York: The Rough Guide ” formatted for Microsoft Reader from Amazon so I don't have to carry the physical book with me while I visit NYC next week. As far as I can recall, even though I have been an avid ebook reader since...

this is something else I have been waiting for since forever... ArrowVision is proud to introduce a new concept door lock - Shepherd 210 Fingerprint Identification Door Lock. If you run one of those shopping centre key-cutting franchises, it might...

IRVINE, Calif. – CES, Las Vegas, January 8, 2004 – Linksys ®, a division of Cisco Systems, Inc., and the leading global manufacturer of broadband, wireless, and networking hardware for home and Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) environments...