My boss sent me a picture of an old SQL Server shirt that he had hanging in his closet.  And by old I mean “SQL Server 7.0″.  That inspired me to go looking through my closet to see what I could find.

Borland Delphi 6 Shirt

The Borland Delphi 6 shirt is from a half-day presentation that Borland gave locally sometime in late 1999 or early 2000.

Yes, I can still wear the shirt.

Tags: development

Another entry in the continuing series of identifying applications that want to install free Internet Explorer toolbars.

Java and Yahoo

There is an interesting pattern that is beginning to develop with Sun and Java updates.  More about that in a later post.

Tags: web browser

A recent Harvard study discussed by the BBC confirms what I knew intuitively about Twitter:  that “tweeting” is boring and doesn’t convey any useful information.  There just doesn’t seem to be enough utility with the service to justify the hype.  Follow the link to my Twitter and see what I’ve posted as experiments over the last couple of months.  Pretty lame.

Edit: Ars Technica has a review of a report by HubSpot on the subject of Twitter users.  The HubSpot report is probably a little more self-serving than the report cited by the BBC.  But it’s still interesting in the details that it provides.

Tags: Twitter

As I sit here working to takeover the world while wearing shorts from my Apple MacBook Pro, I just realized how freakishly hot and and uncomfortable the nice shiny case can get.

MBP Temps

It’s interesting that the enclosure base is reported as 101F.  It sure seems hotter than that.  But on bare skin I suppose that is hot enough.

P.S.  The cool little app that reported the temperatures is iStatPro.

Tags: apple macbook pro