There is a good topic going on over at Channel9 about Microsoft funding studies. I’ve talked about this before, so I thought I’d blog about it.
The way I see it is that studies cost money so someone always has to pay for it. Very few studies will be funded by someone who’s unbiased […]
if anyone actually reads this and wants to be invited into the gmail beta, email me.
I swear Intel’s roadmap once called for a 10GHz CPU by 2005. Where they that naive just one year ago? Surely they would have realized that heat was going to be a major problem as they shrunk the process and cranked up the MHz. It now looks like the breaks are on […]
this is a test of the pingback feature. trackback’s dont seem to work with this version of wordpress, so hopefully pingbacks will.
someone else got gmail
Why is it that what you have now is never enough? This applies to most of life, but it seems particularly annoying in terms of software. As soon as you find out what version x+1 has, everything in the current version seems so primitive. This is what I get for reading the […]
I just got referred from my friend Dan Lash into the Gmail beta. I’ve sent my first email with it and it looks good so far. The spell checking is top notch considering it’s working over a web client and the interface is clean and intuitive. Hopefully people will realize that google […]
The Super Mario Brothers series for NES flat out rocked. LIke many people, my first impression of NES back in the late 80’s was with playing hours of SMB 1. Even though you can only move to the right, the baddies are brainless, and it can easily be beaten within 15 minutes, this […]
Just came across a paper that talks about character animation using D3DX with D3D9.0b. The paper is very well written and gets right to the point. It covers the concepts behind skinning, and then continues to explain implementation details in DirectX 9. I wish I found this paper ealier because it would […]
Josh Detwiler now has a blog that is fitness related.