Friday, September 27, 2002

Caught in .NET Caught in .NET. "However, in the absence of some well-founded objections, the terrible murmur that I keep hearing, the one with apocalyptic consequences for the thinking programmers of the world, will come to be accepted as Gospel. You know, the one that says that, in .NET, Microsoft has made a pretty good implementation of a rather elegant design..." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] Another quote I liked: "The biggest bone that the Java people have to pick with C# is not that the columnist Robert Cringely thinks it will run faster than Java, nor that it comes from Microsoft, nor even that it is a Java knock off. The real problem, about which very little is said, is that C# is a fixed-up knock off of the Java language: better scalars, proper properties, sensible facilities for event handling, a thought-out syntax for method overrides. Javans have been confronted by their own mortality." 10:12:46 PM

More cool stuff with Aggie Sean Slavin is porting Aggie over to be a browser based application. Can't wait for those screenshots! [Bitworking] Coooool! Could all of my blogging be totally web-based? As long as I can access a browser, I'll have access to my blog and my newsfeeds? Awesome! 10:06:42 PM

Request for editing radio weblogs from anywhere Mail-to-weblog seems to be the only real way to contribute to weblog from different machines. I'm puzzled why Dave and Co still have not implemented the obvious functionality of being able to access weblog editing UI directly fromhttp://radio.weblogs.com ??? [Alexis Smirnov] Amen to that! [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog] Why not a web-based blogger like MoveableType? I've already got my template done. I'm just dragging my feet with my conversion program... :) 10:02:55 PM

Microsoft Wireless Desktop I recently purchased the Microsoft Wireless Desktop (the link is for informational purposes only -- I didn't get it from buy.com). After using it for about a week, I've decided I really don't like the mouse. The sleek design seems to require more of a "grip" to properly control it and I find my wrist is sore (probably Carpal Tunnel Syndrome -- although I didn't show the slightest sign of this until getting the new mouse). I think I'm going to swap back to the old, bulky standard 2-button mouse (with a mouse wheel of course) and see if that alleviates the discomfort. 9:59:20 PM

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