Month: February 2003

Ari Pernick on HTTP kernelization in Windows Server 2003. Ari Pernick offers insight into the HTTP.SYS kernelization of (some of) the HTTP stack in Windows Server 2003: Well, it's a scary change, but hopefully appropriate. The chunk of the HTTP stack that we put in the kernel was the routing part. In the same way… Continue reading Ari Pernick on HTTP kernelization in Windows Server 2003

New Social Rules For Wireless Society. Among college, high school and middle school girls who own keitai, keitai e-mail use is effectively 100 percent. Boys are not far behind with 88 percent in the middle school and high school group and 96 percent among college students. This contrasts to the lower numbers of adults over… Continue reading New Social Rules For Wireless Society

Caring for Your Introvert. Rarely does a passage of text resonate with how I am as a person as the opening paragraph of Jonathan Rauch's Caring for Your Introvert did: Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to… Continue reading Caring for Your Introvert

Flow in Web Design – Speed Up Your Site. What is this thing called flow? Learn how to design your site to enable that optimal experience for your users. This exclusive excerpt from Andy King's new book includes an interview with Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of “Flow.” From New Riders.  [WebReference News]

How to Interview a Programmer. Bill Venners: How to Interview a Programmer  « Recognizing good programmers among job applicants is not easy. This article contains interview techniques, garnered from a recent summit on writing better code, that can help you can find the most qualified programmers for your project. »  [Zope Newbies>]

New York Times – free registration required A Radio Chip in Every Consumer Product. And, yes, Procter & Gamble will notice if a case of Pantene shampoo does not make it to the Wal-mart Supercenter in Broken Arrow, Okla. Its truck is equipped to monitor signals continuously from chips hidden in each case. If any… Continue reading New York Times

Questions about Creative Commons licensing. Tim Hadley has a good post, which he is going to keep updating, on legal issues regarding use of the Creative Commons license. [Ernie the Attorney]

It's been a while since I pointed to VBWire. This is the best place to learn about new things for Visual Basic programmers.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Wow, when I was talking with Ingo Rammer last week I never expected him to run out and buy a Tablet (I don't recommend the Compaq one, by the way, because its digitizer isn't pressure sensitive and I believe that's a HUGE disadvantage). Taking off my NEC hat, I would have gone with the Toshiba,… Continue reading Ingo Rammer

Does Congress understand its own laws?  – Apparently, not.  And the proof is that they didn't even understand the full implications of McCain-Feingold finance reform bill. At least, that's what this N.Y. Times article suggests.  Heh. [Ernie the Attorney]