When the ObjectSpaces project was first getting underway, back when the team consisted of just myself and Luca, there was a strange sort of awakening that occurred. One that can only be described as the sudden realization and belief in the power of the...

I really shouldn't be telling you this. It will probably get me into a lot of trouble. Still, its not like a lot of people are reading this, so I might as well open up for once and tell you the straight scoop. XML was a hoax. This is real. Not many people...

I've been involved in a lot of debates over the last few years over the merits of strongly-typed languages versus loosely-types ones. For example, vbscript and java script are generally loosely-typed languages. Local variables defined within a body of...

I want something to buy. Some piece of technology. I've got the money, but there is nothing out there. Nothing that gives me a buzz, like it used to. I'm not saying that I have every gadget, gizmo and thing-a-ma-bob that's available. Quite the contrary...

Betsy and I were playing Neverwinter again a few nights ago. We were having trouble with some metal behemoths. It seems our tactics and weapons were having no effect. We would have had a better weapon, but it was accidentally sold at the last merchant...

Sometimes I get singly focused on my work. It's all I can think about. I know its happening. I even help it along by shutting myself off from everything else. It's easy to do at work. I go into my office, shut the door and I'm in my own little cave; a...

What's all the hubbub about Microsoft's XML patents? It's not as if the company is trying to patent XML itself. You'd think by all the noise being stirred up over it that Microsoft was trying to steal milk from babies. And believe me, they are not. In...

Now that the cat is out of the bag, I guess it is plain to see that windows shares a lot of similarities with Unix. SCO would be very interested to know that some lines of code are identical between windows and Unix System V sources. For example, I...

I've got a new drug. I'm not sure how long its going to last. Thanks to all the feedback from my prior post . I got a lot of ideas from everyone who replied, and I acted on one of them. I purchase the Harmony SST-659 universal remote. It is programmed...

No Stargate tonight. They were all repeats of ones we had seen so Betsy and I played a hour of Neverwinter Nights instead. If you can't watch soldiers beating up on aliens on TV, the next best thing is to beat up on goblins yourself. We play cooperatively...