Recently, I was reading an old Joel Spolsky post called “How Microsoft Lost the API War” from June of 2004. It’s a fascinating (and long) article that’s really worth your time to read. Basically he discusses how the “new tech turnover” folks eventually beat out the “just works” folks within Microsoft’s corporate culture. Looking […]

Have you ever tried to brainstorm, plan, or otherwise think online with other people? It can be tough. You could use instant messaging, but what if you want to do something visual? What if you want to share an image? You could send a link or transmit the file. What if you wanted to […]

Today my Daewoo 17″ LCD monitor died. I went to bed last night after using it, and everything appeared fine until this morning when I turned on my computer. First things first, this is the second monitor I have had fail from Daewoo (and Hyundai, but they use the same panels - the monitors […]