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Job opportunities in foreign countries are a difficult decision.

Check out this great analysis and debugging tool created by Karl von Randow.

News for Tuesday, April 25 2006

Microsoft is set to post for download from the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web site Beta 2 of IE 7 for Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 customers.

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

A hacking kit is being sold, and used, to attack a number of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Firefox.

You can't be fired for surfing the Web, at least in New York.

Patches to Mozilla's e-mail client bring it up to 1.5.02, and 1.7.13 will be the last of the Mozilla Suite.

For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite.

Scott McNealy, chief executive and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, stepped down on Monday and was replaced by President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz.

Microsoft will begin to send notifications directly to their desktop that the copy of Windows they are running isn't genuine.

Find all Microsoft site and blogger feeds all in one place, complete with categories.

Ah, back in the day, I remember watching the numbers dwindle in Intro to Computer Science and Numerical Algebra. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

News for Monday, April 24 2006

Satellites' launch delayed 24 to 48 hours.

The Experimentation Platform will enable product groups at Microsoft and developers using Windows Live to innovate using controlled experiments with live users.

It might as well reciprocate, the human brain changed it.

Setup packages, it's just the polite thing to do...

With Google Base (and Craigslist) beginning to eat into their profits, eBay is looking to ally with Yahoo or Microsoft to broaden their customer base.

A new US government proposal would require warning labels on web sites that publish content pornographic content, with up to five years in jail for not complying.

Yahoo Inc. has launched an online video tool that promotes the San Francisco International Film Festival by letting people mix snippets of film entries to create their own movies.

I wonder who they are going to get to do these commercials.

A new IBM proposal would add reliable asychronous messaging to Web services.

Used to graphically manage process templates, work item types, and global lists.