Digital Apocrypha

Raymond Chen: “Remember, most people do not view the computer as a world to be explored.” Fairly obviously, ‘we’ in the development community almost always forget this. And: “Why should we expect them to understand how a computer works before they are allowed to send email?” #

Scoble on Longhorn: “the graphic designers are now in charge” #

Guardian: “Not a long walk.” #

Guardian: “Television reports produced by “embedded” correspondents in the Iraq conflict gave a sanitised picture of war, according to an academic study published by the BBC today.” #

NY Times: Voyager I crosses the heliopause. Probably. There’s more at Wired. #

Guardian: The real festival of Britain. “Bonfire night is the only major national celebration that still truly belongs to the people”

Guardian: “Sales of organic food in the UK have topped ?1bn for the first time, according to a report by the Soil Association published today.”&nbsp

Guardian: “Sales of organic food in the UK have topped ?1bn for the first time, according to a report by the Soil Association published today.”&nbsp

Bruce Sterling has a new weblog “Beyond the Beyond” on the (new) Wired News weblog site. I love reading  Bruce’s writing but, doh, theres no RSS feed. Come on guys! You’re Wired. You’re supposed to /get/ this! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: No feed == No read. I just don’t have the time to check a zillion sites every day. That’s why I use an aggregator. #

Michael Wilson captures in words the same frustration I feel a lot of the time. #

Guardian: “Sales of organic food in the UK have topped ?1bn for the first time, according to a report by the Soil Association published today.”

Via Jason Tucker’s asp.net weblog comes exciting news of a new product from Appforge. Called ‘Crossfire’, it enables .net apps to run on mobile devices like Palm PDAs and mobile phones.

The press release is pretty sketchy, but unless they’ve done a deal with Microsoft, I would guess they’ve developed a portable version of the CF. As for the CLR, I dunno… maybe they’re using Mono? Irrespective of how it works, though, this brings .net to a lot more platforms, and that’s got to be a good thing. #

SourceGear are selling a single-user version of their highly-rated Vault source-code control system for $49 (about ?30). Eric Sink has a couple of blog entries about it here and here. #

Holy moley! COBOL and RPG for the .net platform.

Chris Anderson has a couple of good posts (here and here) about XAML, Longhorn’s new XML-based user-interface definition language. How do you pronounce ‘XAML’? I’m pronouncing it ‘Zam-Al’, rhymes with ‘camel’.

Here’s an idea. A tool that can generate XAML from an existing assembly using the CodeDOM. Is this possible?

Top 10 Things Likely To Be Overheard From A Klingon Programmer  

Dan Bricklin: “Microsoft demonstrated the backward compatibility of Longhorn by running VisiCalc”. I talked about this subject last weekend. #

Tim Sneath: “The web browser is dead for anything apart from internet sites” #

Rory Blyth has figured-out the real motivation behind WinFS. And its not indexing sales reports. #

Random subject of the day: Mirages in Finland. Facinating.

Dan Bricklin: “Microsoft demonstrated the backward compatibility of Longhorn by running VisiCalc”. I talked about this subject last weekend. #

Tim Sneath: “The web browser is dead for anything apart from internet sites” #

Rory Blyth has figured-out the real motivation behind WinFS. And its not indexing sales reports. #

Random subject of the day: Mirages in Finland. Facinating.

Lots of goodness starting to appear on the MSDN Longhorn sitelet. They also have an RSS feed. #

Some PDC session material is popping up here. #

Clemens Vasters defines Indigo in two sentences (and lots of commas).