Phil Wheat's Knowledge Matters

If you are (I know I am) then you'll be happy to know that there's now a single location to go for all of the SysInternals tools.  It doesn't look like there's new versions of them all, but there's at least now just one location to go looking for...

If you're old like me and remember Memeograph machines, this should be something interesting.  And if you're a spring chicken and don't - look at what your elders had to put up with in school (at least on a smaller scale.) http://cephaloprint.olympe...

I'll definitely be there - and I'm probably bringing the robot kit.  You can find information about where and when at http://innovationcamp.pbwiki.com/ - don't forget to vote for or create a session!  There are four tracks, and right now it...

Just checking - yesterday was Alan Turing's birthday!  I missed it with all the other stuff going on, but it's a cool thing to think about. I spent a lot of years considering Turing tests and such, so it's interesting to see the day come by. ...

Looks like " Left 4 Dead " now has a release date.  I think I'm going to have a busy fall.  With Spore coming in during September, and a number of other games finally releasing in the fall, I'm going to have to be pretty aggressive...

When I was back in undegrad in Aeronautical Engineering, one of the professors at my campus had a great little car.  I finally found it (I think) at the Tiny-Cars post on haha.nu! This was the coolest thing ever, as it was as long as a regular car...

This may be your washbasin.  One of the reasons I'm into TechShop is that I would be able to make stuff like this for my wife without paying the huge "cool" premium that these guys tend to command!

I found an interesting audiocast on IT Conversations   (as a quick note, this is also where the famous Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Joel Spolsky now host their Webcast - Stack Overflow .)  The audiocast was about the fact that cellular telephones...

With all the fun we've been having lately - I just wanted to post a pointer to the last ArcReady event we hosted.  Architecting for Scalable and Usable Web applications.  Twitter , are you working on it?  I've been a fan since last year...

I had meant to put up a show today on the Semantic Web meeting last week.  Michelle , and GeekAustin have both had some great coverage (I even saw Silona there, but didn't get to chat with her), but I wanted to make a few comments myself.  Hopefully...

I get asked the question "What is the best tool for teaching programming to young kids?" a lot.  My answer (and not just for young kids, but for adults who haven't programmed before) is just about always - a set of RoboRalley !  Why...

I'm lagging here a bit, but I did want to point over to the release a couple of weeks ago of the VS2K8 version of the SharePoint 2007 Extensions.  I'd already noted the documentation which was released with the VS2K5 version, but you can find the...

Just got word on this - looks to be very interesting and a great topic for a couple of months before Maker Faire - hopefully everyone can will get excited and we can see the "Connected environment" start coming together around the area! ...

If you've been following the Robotics Studio stuff, I've just caught up on a series of Robotics Mediacasts that I'd found.  There are some nice things going on there around Robotics as an industry - but it seems they finished their run for now in...

I also found the TED talks I keep hearing about.  I have a bit of a mixed opinion on them - about half are great, and half are... well not what I'd expect.  I love the guys talking about changing the word, but not so interested in the guys juggling...

One of the mediacasts that's making me try to work in WorldCon in Denver again (Can I do 3 whole months on the road?  But it would be interesting to be in Denver NOT for a contract) is Escape Pod .  Escape Pod is audio editions of various short...

Catching up on posts, and saw that Bryant Likes (over at my former company, Avanade) had picked up on an easy way to tell Vista to use multiple cores even through the boot cycle (for edge cases, it only uses one until it gets things up an rolling.) ...

As you may notice, I fixed my archives column being... Less than left justified. :-)  If you're running the EBE, note that all you have to do is go into the Monthcount.xsl for the theme of your choice, and then add a wrapper around the row template...

Angel Lopez was pointed out to me as someone who's really gotten into Robotics Studio. I went to check his blog at http://ajlopez.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/distributed-agents-and-fractals-using-dssvpl/ and was incredibly impressed. He's not only put together...

When I read "If Chins could Kill" by Bruce Campbell, one of the things I found out was his lust for Red Food Coloring and Karo Syrup.  It's in several of the chapters and is a great metaphor for simulating those things that are too distasteful...

With Dave Bost's Virtual CodeFest sessions and the work that Zain Nabulsi's been doing on Second Life, I thought I'd make a couple of comments on Virtual Worlds and some of the things I've seen through their evolution.  So Show #11 is about where...

Just had a question about getting this error when working with a Data View in SharePoint 2007.  The person was doing everything right to do CRUD on a SQL table, but was getting the above error on update.  The mechanism itself is very appealing...

I'm probably one of the last to note it, but AppDev.com is offering one free training CD-ROM.  I've seen people do it, and always love to get some additional items, but if you check out what they've got, it gets even better.  They offer both...

I still have to wait until Wednesday but, the SporePedia is now up.  Just seeing the different creatures is enough to get my attention, but I found a nice tip on the side - "How do you see one of these Creatures in your Spore Creature Creator...

One of my team, Jared Bienz, has just finished up a great video on using Silverlight (and LINQ, which comes with Silverlight 2) to create a nice Image Search application.  We've talked a bit about how much can be done in 24 hours at HackDays, but...