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The Beauty of Simplicity.

Make it pure… less is more.

Same holds true with the interface of your forms and… your codes.

GOOGLE-Mart. Sam Walton taught Google more about how to dominate the internet than Microsoft ever did.

Yeah. Even the aliens are shifting sides.

Most of my FoxPro feeds are pointing to this news.

Feds mull regulation of quantum computers.

Just wait until I can inform Stacy, Dave and Nathan about this. We’ll see… we’ll see.

Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb.

Now that’s a good excuse to… well, a lot of things really.

(Thanks wraith for the link. It’s about time you start your own blog.)

Charles Petzold: Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?. Ruminations on the Psychology and Aesthetics of Coding. (via Avatar)

I guess the world is not ending after all.

• Google earmarks nearly $1 billion for charities
• Apple unveils video iPod, deal with ABC
• Bloggers use Web sites as therapy
• Spirit rover sends back colorful vista
• Microsoft, Yahoo link instant message services
• Fox cancels ‘The Simple Life’
• Bill Gates Donates $40m To Old School

Earth 1 – Aliens 0.

… and I’m even tempted to include TheFoxPro Show 024. But I’ll reserve a different blog space for that.

I was discussing this 30GB e-mail service, when Beakman pointed me to this-why-settle-for-30GIGS-when-you-can-have-1000GB..?

Should I now start updating my Signs of The Apocalypse notebook?

Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista.

I’ll react later. One rant a day is more than enough for me.

What a way to start a week… receiving a link to this article.

Will GADGETS trump WIDGETS..?

10 Dumb Moments in Sci-Fi Cinema.

Hitting The High Notes.

Philweavers.net 3.0 went live a couple of days ago. An old interview/feature of The PixelCatalyst was re-uploaded in this new version.

This is an old feature already… some links discussed are non existent anymore… some views are not as ‘cool’ as they were, but still, some things never change.

There’s no more pixelcatalyst.com by the way, I decided a couple years back to stick with the http://pixelcatalyst.plastiqueweb.com url.

Chaos in computer performance. If microprocessors don’t have any appeal to you… then how about teleportation..?

Andrew MacNeill mentions this VFP9 book. Exactly what the VFP community needs (And the whole ‘real world database programming’ communities as well).

I’ve been seeing too much books on the shelves in most bookstores here in our place that makes me do that ‘come-on-VFP-is-much-better-than-this’ grumble.

Now if only we can see more of these despite the fact that writing computer-related manuals/books is not that financially rewarding.

But not everything in this world is about money.

One of the million reasons why Hubble should not be forsaken… she spots the Great Eye of Sauron. Earth should now start preparing. Gather your swords and pitchforks.

… and be keen on the signs… such as this one.

New calculator makes solving tricky sums easy. It’s about time. While you’re at it why not make it a voice-activated and/or mind-controlled interface..?

The Best Product Design of 2005.

And you think being a superhero comes cheap. Think again (Being Batman HTML slideshow (which if you ask me is quite annoying (I mean the html auto refresh slideshow and not the content)).

Interesting.

(Most links of the day acquired from GeekPress.)

Still obsessed with ‘mod’-ing your PC’s cooling system? Try this. (via Mondays)

Darn… I can’t find the link to that Hydrogen-cooled CPU.

Sustainable energy source could solve Bermuda Triangle riddle.

Go ahead awaken the aliens in slumber.

I’d rather spend some time with Bathsheba Grossman’s Sculpting Geometry.

Avatar is back with his Neural Brew.

Forget the ‘ForgetMeNot Panties‘ with Sensatech Technology and Embedded Global Positioning System to protect the women of your life, bro… THIS _is_ the real thing.

Mondays. What Sunday Threw Up.