Enigma
Alan Turing is largely credited with breaking Enigma and it is quite unfortunate that not many sources give as much credit to Marian Rejewski. Rejewski and his team...
Uncategorized
Podcasting is out of control
Even though I think Podcasting is great for time-shifting professionally produced material, it's getting a little out of control in Podcast land with everybody taking a shot at being...
Discovery landing
This morning as I took in the shuttle landing, I did so with a recently acquired sense of amazement and appreciation for this most amazing of human machines. My...
The Innovator’s Edge
A thought-provoking piece worth sharing: http://www.intuitive.com/blog/no_one_every_buys_a_product_the_innovators_edge.html
Here, here (sic)
After seeing someone post "here, here" in the ASP.Net forums for the umpteenth time, I had to find a way to vent my feelings about this annoyance. So...
CSS finesse – Part I
CSS gives you the ability to control HTML presentation with a fair amount of granularity. However, if you take a peek at stylesheets from random websites, you will...
Walt Mossberg’s WSJ Column on Cookies
Walt Mossberg wrote this in the Wall Street Journal. So, here's the email I sent him: Hi Walt,As a responsible journalist whose column informs, educates and inflences many...
WebDAV Batch Methods
So I am going along implementing RFC 2518 and was Googling for clarification on an item. One of the search results caught my eye because it referenced "WebDAV...
Bad week
This has been a bad week. My grandmother passed away earlier in the week. Since then, in addition to not being very productive and not feeling very creative, I...
A Capitol Fourth
Today was my first Independence Day as an American citizen, as it was for my daughter who was born last December. We joined more than half a million...