~mkw

I just noticed that the Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2005 is on MSDN downloads!

OK, I went and downloaded Vista Beta 1 and played for a while. There are some nice things but all in all incremental improvements over XP. My beef though is with the interface and the hype. For years I heard about this super secret 3d interface being developed, it was supposed to make OSX users jealous and makes users want to run out and buy the product when released.

Sometimes you feel secure, sometimes you don’t. Better put, sometimes a page needs to be secured and sometimes it does not.

http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/423/

Wrote this a few years back; I never posted it for some reason. I have been working on my blog entry for the PDC contest which is a parody of the Gettysburg Address and I thought I would post this for laughs.

I have been building applications on the web for almost a decade now; real applications used everyday by real people, not web sites you touch every once in a while. In my experience I have learned many things but one important element can be summed up in two words – browsers suck.

Dont like getting into political issues but this has an effect on software development...

Microsoft censors words like Freedom and Democracy