29 February 2008 – 9:24 PM
WindowError:001 Windows loaded. System in danger!
WindowError:002 Nothing wrong. YET!
WindowError:003 Dynamic link error. Error in all files!
WindowError:004 Random error. No real error!
WindowError:005 Windows tried to multitask. System confused!
WindowError:006 Disk error. Disk in drive!
WindowError:007 System price error. Too little money spent!
WindowError:008 Terrible error. God only knows what happened!
WindowError:009 Error code error. Error code error reported!
WindowError:00A Broken window. […]
29 February 2008 – 9:01 PM
Scenario: Jack goes duck hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1973 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck […]
28 February 2008 – 7:38 PM
In September, when we reported that Google was preparing to drag a multi-terabit communications cable under the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest search engine acted like it didn’t know what we were talking about. But yesterday, with a post to The Official Google Blog, network acquisitions manager Francois Sterin finally acknowledged his company was just […]
28 February 2008 – 7:37 PM
Developers of the popular social-networking Web site Facebook have unveiled a preview of the changes that will be incorporated in the layout of Facebook profiles in the coming weeks. They say the core purpose of the redesign is to make user profiles clutter-free.
The “clutter” comes into the picture as more and more applications are added […]
25 February 2008 – 9:45 PM
Microsoft exec Kevin Johnson has emailed all Microsoft staff to reassure them about the Yahoo! acquistion.
The mail, which was publicly released, seems to be as much for Yahoo! staff as for existing Microsofters.
For instance, the mail reassures west coasters that Microsoft intends to keep Yahoo!’s Silicon Valley offices and that parts of the company’s brand […]
24 February 2008 – 5:53 PM
What do you get if you couple an email from Kevin Johnson, Microsoft president of the company Platforms & Services Division, to employees about the Yahoo deal and the software giant’s pledge to be more interoperable with the open source world? One big moment to prove Microsoft is serious about this interoperability thing.
Yahoo could […]
24 February 2008 – 5:43 PM
University computer science departments are rapidly becoming Microsoft-free zones, as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) combine with Java to become the de-facto standard environment for students of programming.
Microsoft knows from history that this will be fatal in the long term, hence its decision to extend free availability of core development tools to students. Most […]
23 February 2008 – 11:59 AM
“The Great Pyramid has lent its name as a sort of by-word for paradoxes; and, as moths to a candle, so are theorisers attracted to it. The very fact that the subject was so generally familiar, and yet so little was accurately known about it, made it the more enticing; there were plenty of descriptions […]
23 February 2008 – 11:57 AM
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture provides a useful three-tier pattern for building software, as MVC patterns decouple the graphical user interface (GUI) from the application logic.
That comes in useful when it comes to changing an application after it has been deployed. Separation of the views from the data means modifications made in the views do […]
23 February 2008 – 11:39 AM
The Starchild skull is an abnormal human-like skull which was found in Mexico. Its origin and nature are contested by scientists and paranormal enthusiasts.
Front view of the Starchild skull (on the left) and the human skull (on the right).
Compare striking differences between depth of eye sockets and shape of temporal
area just behind outer edges of […]
