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Another, month, another alpha. Don’t know if anyone has noticed by I’ve been hitting alpha releases at about one per month since October. Bloget™ 0.8 is here and it has some cool new features. Perhaps...

Check out my new podcast. Get this widget! If you don’t see the flash player widget above (IE sometimes has problems with it), click this link to use the Feed2Post player (which is also very...

Here’s a fun little find. Gliffy is an only drawing program. It’s very much like Visio but without the headaches. I always find myself a bit lost in Visio but with Gliffy I’m in productive...

I love chocolate. I also feel guilty sometimes because I perceive it as unhealthy. Well bucko, this site dispels some of those myths about about the dark side. According to AllChocalate.com chocolate has about as...

This poll from today’s MSNBC Live Vote is very telling indeed. What’s interesting is the forcefulness of the question. It’s not do you approve of the job the President is doing but should he be...

By Mark Russinovich Introduction Windows 2000 and higher supports directory symbolic links, where a directory serves as a symbolic link to another directory on the computer. For example, if the directory D:\SYMLINK specified C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 as...

Here is a list of commands you can execute from the Run command prompt in XP: Accessibility Controls access.cpl Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools certmgr.msc Character Map charmap Check Disk Utility...

This is an article from the July 2002 issue of Scientific American and still remains in my mind one of the best summaries of the issues to date. Anyone interested in the debate between Evolution...

DoubleDesktop is a smart and elegant system tray utility that effectively doubles the width of your Windows desktop. It’s simpler to use than many similar programs: just mouse-click on its icon or hit a keystroke...

GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from name and...