The n Habits of Highly Defective Windows Applications

"On one recent consulting trip, I spotted a Sleep() inside a WaitFor..., and said "there's the problem", and then explained "Your program will fail under the following conditions (a), (b), (c) and the behavior it will exhibit on failure will be (d), (e) and (f)" and they said "Yes, that's exactly where and how it is failing!"

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FOX News Editing Team: Way to go!

A clip from the Colbert Report is chopped up and blown out of context.

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Israeli Strikes Are Part Of A Broader Strategy

For Israel, the goal is to eliminate Hezbollah as a security threat or altogether. For the United States, the goal is to strangle the axis of Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran.

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Dugg, Slashdotted and Boingboinged in 24 hours

Summary of what happens when 3 of the biggest tech traffic shovellers come to town in a 24 hour period. Strangely, the overall impact wasn't as big as a single Digg from earlier in the year.

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Programming Is Like Sex

A couple dozen similarities between the two most enjoyable practices on earth.

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EU Regulators Support Fining Microsoft

In a major step toward new penalties against Microsoft Corp., Europe's antitrust regulators voted unanimously Monday in favor of fining the world's largest software company for flouting a 2004 ruling, two people close to the case said.

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Understanding of Human Body Clock Reworked

The mechanism behind jet lag, insomnia and other disorders that rely on an inner body clock is not what it seems, scientists announced today. The effect of a mutation in a key gene involved in the regulation of sleep and wake cycles in mammals works in the opposite way from what was previously thought.

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Linux Moves Towards Unified APIs...

"The Portland Project has released a beta version of its programming interfaces for the Gnome and KDE Linux environments. This is designed to boost development of desktop Linux applications by creating common application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers to use."

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» MS: 20% of WGA failures not caused by pirated keys

Microsoft admits that 20% of WGA failures are not caused by pirated keys.

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Microsoft drops its XP pirate checks

Microsoft has dropped elements of its Windows Genuine Advantage Notification after they ignited a firestorm of controversy.

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