Bit-cycling

Monday : Safari for Windows (beta) announced . Tuesday : Six vulnerabilities found . Thursday: Safari 3.0.1 released . Friday : Another pair of vulns. Next Friday: Safari 3.0.2 released . Monday morning : Another vulnerability . - Sean PS. Kudos to the...

I install and uninstall dozens of pieces of software weekly. I also (perhaps as a result of the first statement), rebuild my laptop from scratch about once every three of four months. So, it's a rare piece of software that lasts on my PC time after time...

A long time ago (c. 2001), I had a stint on the SQL Server team (it lasted about 9 months). One of the things I did on the team was write the first specification for a Native HTTP stack in SQL Server. The idea was to make any stored procedure available...

The tall white dude in the middle of this picture is none other than Chrix Finne of IE RSS team internship fame. Picture courtesy www.harvard.edu Harvard Class Day, June 6, 2007. You may now commence to make the obvious Clinton and intern comments.

One of the newer things in Windows Vista is the Aero interface, which includes, along with the new "glass" window effect, a number of transparency effects. These effects are designed to be pretty subtle, but if you want to see them in action, you can...

The Silverlight folks have created a chess-playing demo in Silverlight 2. The game is here: http://silverlight.net/samples/sl2/silverlightchess/run/default.html (credits and other samples here ) Silverlight 2 (formerly 1.1), for those who don't...