The new place to find me on the web is http://scott.blomqui.st .

Anyone out there know of a BNF grammar for espresso beverages? I really want to see one. If I don't find one, I may just have to write one. I know that my drink of choice is a "double tall non-fat not-too-hot latte", but why do the words go in that order...

Since my last post, I've taken a job on the MSN Search team. It's a pretty interesting problem space to work in, but it's tough to stay objective about which search engine is the best one around. I want to see us ship such a cool product that everyone...

I haven't posted in a while because I spent all of last week in Boston, MA, the latter half of which for the annual convention of the National Puzzlers' League . The convention was fun, and I'll make some time soon to tell you more about it and the other...

Every once in a while, I think I know exactly what the code that I'm writing is doing, and then I discover, often through some catastrophe, that I didn't quite understand all the details. One particularly instructive (or would that be destructive ?) example...

Stupid Remote Desktop trick #1 Connect to a remote machine using Remote Desktop. In device manager, right-click on your network card and choose “Disable“. Kick yourself for being so stupid, go to the machine's console (hopefully...

Let's begin with a simple experiment that you can perform on your own computer: Count the number of icons in your Taskbar Notification Area, including any rarely used icons that Windows XP may have hidden under the little blue less-than button...

Tribal Librarian? What on earth does that mean?! To understand where I got such a strange name for my blog, we first need to understand “tribal knowledge”. iSixSigma.com defines tribal knowledge as “any unwritten information that...