December 8, 2005

Windows Live Local Beta

Windows Live Local is out and many people are talking about it. One person in particular, Jeffrey McManus of Yahoo, doesn’t think much of version 1.0. I haven’t used it enough to agree or disagree with his comments, but I hope to dig into this a little more tonight.

December 8, 2005

Popularity of Ruby

Tim O’Reilly takes a look at the popularity of Ruby books and at what is driving so much interest in Ruby, that is Rails.

December 8, 2005

Google and DRM- only a matter of time

Nelson Minar: “The Xbox 360 is a dry run for “Trusted Computing”. The new console has a slew of anti-modder technology to make it impossible to run unauthorized software. Who authorizes Xbox 360 software? Microsoft.”
Of course Nelson works for Google- I met him a few years back. And of course Google is immune to DRM, [...]

December 8, 2005

No Xbox 360 for SteveB

Steve Ballmer: “Thanks to the wonders of Sarbanes-Oxley, management does not get a free Xbox 360.”