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To MCP or not to MCP, that is the question.

This is a video you all have to see.

MSDN and Technet have replaced their old search engine with a new one. Give it a test drive now, and see what you find.

Tech job postings have risen 26.3 percent in the last year, and contract positions have risen even faster, to 30.3%.

Users of Hewlett-Packard printers, scanners and cameras may be experiencing some problems after installing Microsoft's latest round of security patches. Ooops.

In an attempt to clamp down on spam, China has made it illegal to host your own e-mail servers. If you outlaw SMTP will only outlaws use SMTP?

PowerBuilder 10.5 features several functionality enhancements and delivers improvements to the Sybase DataWindow data access, presentation and manipulation tool.

US, UK and Australian folk can participate in a promotional contest for the upcoming Da Vinci Code movie. The rest of us can break the codes for the sheer joy of it.

Maybe this will increase the weather guys’ ability to predict the weather.

Larry Ellison has never shied away from a fight. Now he's apparently looking at taking on Microsoft in the operating system arena, by going the Linux route.

News for Monday, April 17 2006

Think it had anything to do with the Woz dissing the iPod?

India's HCL Technologies puts "employees first, customers second". Every employee rates their boss, their boss' boss, and any three other company managers they choose, and everything is available for everyone to see.

Want to build your own computer, but not sure what components you need? Find the good/better/best in this guide.

Java designer James Gosling wants to make developing Ajax applications easier.

Download the source code for the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers.

Find out when there are new Microsoft KB articles via the new RSS feeds. Everything from the .NET Framework to Bicycle Board games.

Over 300 common needs fulfilled via kind-hearted developers everywhere. All in one handy page.

Big company or small company? It's good to have a choice.

News for Friday, April 14 2006

Remastered Beatles Songs to Be Sold Online -- Finally

US is cracking down on internet casino ads. Does anyone really think this is going to help?

The worst thing you can do with a computer network is let users connect with it. See what happens.

Not calculating power, but electrical power. The goal is to help companies manage their rising data center energy bills.