Some details on changes in upcoming versions of Windows XP. Note the section concerning complying with the anti-trust court rullings (via bump.net). Here’s a question: how come no punative damages against Microsoft? If I were to steal a CD from the local Wal-Mart, I’d get punative damages and risk jailtime. But you can steal marketshare, [...]

April archives are up (at long last). Just bought Peter van der Linden’s Just Java 2 (fifth edition–for v1.4 of the JDK). Looking forward to devouring it. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, when I was just beginning to learn PHP and MySQL (and when I was getting fairly frustrated with [...]

A little press for wheatdesign: An article on stock photography in digital-web magazine features a screen shot (scroll down a bit) of the computing page at wheatdesign.com (to show how we use an image from iStockPhoto). Cool. Other important news, the first part of what will ultimately be a full translation (into Russian) of my [...]

More debate on jimformation about the (lack of) value of weblogs, including this guest piece by bwg. I didn’t like the piece at first, as it begins by making a play to elitism, but if you read the whole thing, bwg actually supports the idea of blogging but also the idea of not taking it [...]

I’ve been playing around with new skins for Winamp and Mozilla. For Winamp, Quick Tune is the best I’ve found. It’s a pretty good cop of the Mac iTunes program. For Mozilla, Pinball gives a bit more color to the gray modern look and also uses less screen real estate. Jimformation is back.