After more than one and a half year of using Windows Vista Business I have decided to get back to Windows Xp.
Even though Windows Vista has some extremely cool features like the search box in the start menu, more intuitive and easy to use interface, sidebar, better firewall, hardware accelerated GUI, etc. it is quite [...]

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Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.
Pausch died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., said Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal writer who co-wrote Pausch’s book. Pausch and his family had moved there last [...]

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If you don’t know what Microsoft Surface is you show visit this link before reading any further.
As a short resume Surface is a Multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand [...]

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A few days ago a new version of Wordpress, the popular blog publishing system and the one that is behind this blog, was released.
The new 2.6 version brings some exciting new features:

Word count
Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
Bulk management of plugins.
A completely revamped image control to [...]

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Writing code, comments, variable names, etc., in the manner that they create a pun:
byte me;
long john_silver;
char broiled;
string vest;
float valve;
double jeopardy;
struct by_lightning { … };
Object strongly;
class warfare { … };
String cheese;
Exception taken;
Graphics ex; // XXX
long walk(short pier) { } // from the MrBunny Java book
int elligence;
bool me_over;
short circus;
int eger; // …completing what the designers of the [...]

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