.NET reality check. There's been some pushback recently, in the .NET blogging community, about Microsoft's habit of living in the future. For example: It is abundantly frustrating to be keeping up with you guys right now. We out here in the real world do not use Longhorn, do not have access to Longhorn (not in [...]

Gaming and the future of IT. Tom Rolfes, and IT manager for the State of Nebraska writes a fascinating e-mail about the real IT experience his son and his high-school age peers gain with online gaming (in response to my recent column I work as an I.T. manager for the State and was formerly a [...]

A challenge for webloggers: handling organizational difficulties. Examples: Dean and Windows Media. Howard Dean's weblog team blew it in the past week. I kept looking at them for some insight into why they did so poorly in Iowa. Some critical thinking. Some honesty. I wanted to see if they were building a learning organization that'd [...]

Meeting REI's CEO. If I believed in a God, I'd have to start thinking that she's a geek and looking out for me. Why do I say that? Because Alaska Airlines' reservation system keeps putting me next to the most interesting people. Last night, for instance, I sat next to (and chatted with) the President/CEO [...]

CNET NEWS.COM By Declan McCullagh – Dean should come clean on privacy. After Howard Dean's unexpected defeat last week in Iowa, public attention has focused on his temper, his character, and that guttural Tyrannosaurus bellow of his not-quite-a-concession speech. But Dean's views on Americans' privacy rights may be a superior test of his fitness to [...]

LotR Wins. At the Golden Globes, Peter Jackson won best director and Return of the King won for drama motion picture. Outstanding.  [ProfessorBainbridge.com]

Don't design on spec. Three reasons never to submit free designs when responding to a Request for Proposal. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]

Yet Another Format to Start Thinking about for the Future. Music CDs: Dinosaurs “Music downloads will render compact discs all but obsolete in the next five years, yet half of all companies that begin selling digital songs online will fail by year-end, a researcher warned Saturday. By 2008, about a third of music sales in [...]

New Project for Cataloging Personal Collections. From time to time, somone will email or IM me and ask for a recommendation for software to catalog their personal library. I'm happy to report that there is a new solution called LibDB on the horizon. “This is the development wiki of LibDB, an open-sourced Perl/MySQL library and asset [...]

Cooperative Linux is a scary hack that loads the Linux kernel into the NT kernel as a driver so that they can both run in ring 0 at the same time, allowing Linux apps to run full speed on Windows without porting. [Hack the Planet]