For the price I can ignore the fact that it has VCAST:
Now nine months later, despite the F9100's lukewarm acceptance, LG has designed another 9000-series QWERTY keypad device; this time named the VX9800. Improving on many of the F9100's shortcomings, the VX9800 promises to be not just a text messaging device, but a complete multimedia package, with an excellent imaging, audio, and connectivity features, making it more widely appealing than just to a small demographic.
[ LG VX9800 Review - Mobiledia ]
N8 has been eyeing this one for a while, but is concerned about the lack of a web browser. It appears that you can load one on the device, but the screen looks tiny to me, and I don't expect the browsing experience to be all that. For texting and IMing, however, this is a hot little phone, and at a good price.
Microsoft now has a free version of SQL Server:
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is an easy-to-use version of SQL Server 2005 designed for building simple data-driven applications. The following is a list of features that help make Express Edition the right choice for your needs.
[ Microsoft SQL Server: SQL Server Express Edition Features ]
But it must be limited in some way. I had assumed that you couldn't use it to host websites due to some CAL restriction or something, but my initial research seems to contradict that. It seems to lack DTS, I'm sure it lacks scheduled maintenance, perhaps there is no granular restoration via transaction logs, surely something needs to be missing. Props to Jonny SQL for not assuming that it couldn't be used for websites...
Ajax is a brand-new suite of programming solutions.
[ Seth's Blog: What to do if you don't know what to do ]
In addition to getting called on the real reason Chicago is called the Windy City, he's a bit off about what AJAX really is.
Wikipedia is quick to point out that "Ajax is not a technology in itself, but a term that refers to the use of a group of technologies together." and it is simply a cutsie acronym for "Asynchronous JavaScript And XML".
Modern AJAX techniques tend to rely on the javascript XMLHttpRequest but earlier techniques (like the kind I used) invoved an IE-only concept called XmlDataIslands (props to Nate for bringing that one to my attention). The term Ajax (which should be AJAX) was coined by Adaptive Path and has quickly gained favor, especially among the "Web 2.0" crowd. However it must be pointed out that this asynchronous dynamic has been used for years, and it nothing new at all.
And the rest of Ajax, notably the Javascript and XML are even older...
I'm headed to the launch:
Join Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer* and key Microsoft Executives for the launch of Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005, SQL Server™ 2005, and BizTalk® Server 2006! This all-day event offers an opportunity to learn how the Microsoft application platform offerings enable organizations to gain better business insight and deliver faster results by easily connecting people, processes, and information.
[ Launch Tour 2005 ]
Of course we don't get Cheap Trick and Steve Ballmer like San Francisco did, but I look forward to getting excited about the new tools I'll be using soon...
I love it when you find a game that compels you to avoid eating and sleeping, and if you are a gamer you know what I mean. Ubi's back with PoP: The Two Thrones which they sum up as such:
The Prince of Persia makes his way home to Babylon, bearing with him Kaileena, the enigmatic Empress of Time, and unspeakable scars from the Island of Time. But instead of the peace he longs for, he finds his kingdom ravaged by war and Kaileena the target of a brutal plot. When she is kidnapped, the Prince tracks her to the Palace - only to see her murdered by a powerful enemy. Her death unleashes the Sands of Time, which strike the Prince and threaten to destroy everything he holds dear. Cast to the streets, hunted as a fugitive, the Prince soon discovers that the Sands have tainted him, too. They have given rise to a deadly Dark Prince, whose spirit gradually possesses him...
[ Ubisoft - Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones ]
I, however, sum it up this way: "We're sorry that we allowed a team of programmers to release a game that sucked and wasn't at all like the first one. We thought that it needed to be darker and more rock-n-roll, but we were wrong. We have 'fixed' that mistake by killing off the love interest of the second game right at the beginning of the third game, and bringing back all the characters from the first game. Please forgive. Merci Beaucoup." So if you liked the first of the modern Prince of Persia games, you will be pleasantly rewarded with this return to good gaming.
Or, at least, his fabulous potato policy:
Because the potato was unknown to them, Europeans initially considered potatoes poisonous or evil due to their similarities to the nightshade family. Some members of the nightshade family include Mandrake and Belladonna, which are used for medicinal purposes. Germany's King Frederick William realized that potatoes were a good food source and ordered peasants to plant and eat potatoes or their noses would be cut off.
[ Potato Nutrition & History ]
This should strike a bit of fear into the potato haters of the world.
Did he bring world peace? Debt relief to poor nations? Cure disease? No, but he did put Bill O'Reilly in his place, with style, for all the world to see:
"I am not smart enough to debate you point by point on this, but I have a feeling about 60% of what you say is crap. . . . but I don't know that for a fact." Dave says to Paul Shaffer, "Yeah, 60%. I'm just spit-balling here."
[ CBS | Late Show with David Letterman : Wahoo Gazette ]
For possibly just today you can catch the whole video on Dave's website, look for the link to "Big Show Highlight" and if the thumbnail show Bill O'R, then that's the one you want.
I only know one Kanji character. I think you should learn it too:
It's pronounced cha, it means tea. The Chinese character looks basically the same.
Tired of "Merry Christmas"? Is it time to start wishing people a more inclusive holiday well wishing? Something nice and secular?
A poster at one of Sandy Mohachy's favorite stores proclaims "Feliz Navidad" and "Happy Hanukkah" but not "Merry Christmas."
"How
depressing it is," says Mohachy, 62, of Newport Beach. "How can we
Christmas shop if the stores aren't recognizing Christmas?"
[ OC Register x ]
I say fight the Sandy Mohachy's of the world and wish everyone a Feliz Navidad, that'll show her. Forget her "Christmas" and celebrate Navidad! Can't we just celebrate a Navidad that we can all get behind? A secular, non-denominational, non-threatening, peaceful Navidad? And, I think for a while now, alternative French underground culture has been elevating the importance of "Nöel" over Christmas too. Perhaps it's time to jump on their bandwagon?
We're hiring at Doceus (my workplace) still, but we've shifted what we're looking for:
So if you do ColdFusion or C#.NET and are looking for opportunities, there is a good chance we have something at your level open.
There are likely dozens of ways to gain access to another computer across the Internet. The sort of thing you wish to do when home or at work when you need to use the other PC. Some cost money, others are hard to use, etc. etc.
I've been thinking, for a while, that it might be nice to gain access to my PC, but it's on cable broadband, behind a few NATs or so, and probably costs money or some such.
Then, just yesterday, a business issue arose that it would have been darn handy to have that access. And I thought, well I better get some AccessMyPCFromAfar.com account, or what-have-you.
Enter: Hamachi (courtesy Steve Sajous):
With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication.
Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. It is also free.
[ Hamachi: Stay Connected ]
All I can say is:
I love it when a plan comes together
[ Hannibal ]
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