A photographic time capsule of computing

A time capsule of computing. Find it here.

Features tube panel from the Whirlwind, first RAM, IBM 360, 333rd workstation ever shipped by Sun Microsystems (a SUN 100), Commodore Pet, TRS 80, Apple II and the first Google storage system.

Top Ten Database Mistakes

Ten of the Biggest Mistakes Developers Make With Databases
Thanks to Mikhail for the link.

Finally a phone to hold all my music

Ok, at 7.2GB my music collection is just about average. But that would nicely fit onto this phone - the Samsung SGH-i310 with 8GB hard disk (yeah that leaves about 800MB of space for other uses)

The SGH-i310 runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphones and features an 8GB HDD, 2MP camera with flash, video recording and playback, TV-output, audio playback, dual speakers w/digital amplification, A2DP stereo Bluetooth, Picsel document viewer, USB 2.0, and microSD memory card storage.

New live.com

www.live.com has had some major upgrades, and they are WOW!!!

Read this post for more info, or just go live :)

Blank media tax

Who came up with this absolutely crazy idea of Blank media tax?

Here is a thought provoking article on this Media Tax by cessu who extrapolates the tax to cover airwaves and even water molecules...

Seven Secret of Successful Programmers

cessu writes about Yet Another Seven Secret of Successful Programmers
Great Reading... Pretty practical as well...