Just subscribed to the PVRBlog (PVR = Personal Video Recorder like TiVo or ReplayTV). This new blog was created by Matt Haughey who runs (among other things) MetaFilter and A Whole Lotta Nothing. Good stuff.
Over the Fourth of July holiday, the kids had a lot of fun playing games on a couple of Palm handhelds that I brought. Back in the office on Monday, I found this set of pictures that Cathy Jo had taken. Kind of artistic, eh? These were taken on my Zire 71 with its build-in camera.
Having a spell checker in Outlook is pretty useful, but sometimes the suggestions it gives are hilarious. Is there a name for these things? I’ve got to start keeping a list.
Today I sent an e-mail with the word “DevStudio” (referring to Microsoft Visual Studio) and got this suggestion: Devastation!
The latest issue of Crypto-Gram just came out today. If you're interested at all in computer security, this is a great resource that comes out once a month. His archives are also worth browsing through. Good site to learn from. Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail newsletter on computer security and cryptography from Bruce Schneier (author of Secrets and Lies and Applied Cryptography, inventor of Blowfish and Twofish, CTO and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., general crypto pundit and occasional crypto curmudgeon).
Vertigo Software — Quake II .NET is a version of the popular Quake II game, ported to native and managed C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. Don't mind me, I'm just playing….er, studying .NET programming… [Via Chris Sells]