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December 2003 - Posts

InfiniteHoops.com Milestone 100

My little .NET project InfiniteHoops.com for finding and scheduling basketball games reached 100 registered players on Saturday, I am pleased to say. Development in recent weeks has been mostly in the area of UI and ease of use improvements. I have also Read More...
Posted Monday, December 22, 2003 1:00 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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Make More Mistakes

Eric Sink has a new Business of Software article out on MSDN columns, entitled Make More Mistakes . This one is exactly what I would hope he would write about. He talks about the history of SourceGear and mistakes ranging from bad technology choices to Read More...
Posted Monday, December 22, 2003 12:19 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Popups for fun and profit

I just came across the ruling that allows a company, D Squared, to resume sending pop-ups to people's computers via the Messenger service in Windows (not to be confused with Windows Messenger). The company has not decided whether to resume the ads or Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2003 2:38 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Rolling Stone Interview of Steve Jobs

Here's a link to the Rolling Stone interview with Steve Jobs talking about iPod, iTunes and the future of the recording industry. http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=2529 “It is corrosive to one's character to steal.” -- Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:11 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Don't Leave, Frans

So yesterday Frans Bouma posted his concern about weblogs.asp.net becoming less of a .NET community site and instead a pulpit for MS employees (as a result of all the GotDotNet bloggers moving here) and wondered if it's still appopriate to criticize Microsoft Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:48 AM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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SportsML

I am kind of interested in applications of XML. To be sure, it was an interest in RSS which led me to write my random thoughts about things on this blog. Recently, I blogged an update about the MathML spec. I have heard of projects such as ChemML (CML) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:56 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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GIMPS finds 40th known Mersenne Prime

From www.mersenne.org ... On November 17, 2003 Michael Shafer's computer found the 40th known Mersenne prime, 2 20,996,011 -1! This number "weighs in" at a whopping 6,320,430 decimal digits! This is also the largest known prime number, surpassing GIMPS' Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:31 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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