@benfulton that fits under goal #1, if money is satisfying enough

@mhinze splain pls

@haacked congrats on the successful move-- you've now docked with the Redmond mothership :)

@jongalloway they "referer" (hate that codified misspelling) protected the URL. Cut n paste it into the browser address bar.

@kevindente the 80% don't know what the 20% know. And it takes them years to figure it out. Sadly, the 20% don't know *that*, either.

@hotdogsladies I don't blame you, you voted for Clay Davis. http://tinyurl.com/2xwqqk

@jamuraa (waves hand) these aren't the fonts you're looking for

@a7an indeed, why does anyone pay for software at all? Note: I am not making a sarcastic joke.

@hotdogsladies Now we can build sites in all-Silverlight! Totally different thing!

@omarshahine evidently they'll let anyone into the U.S. these days :) welcome back after such a grueling ordeal

@kevindente space bar browser page advance powers, ACTIVATE! (also, shift+space scrolls up)

@IDisposable try printing USPS pack-n-ship postage with Foxit Reader. Good luck. You're gonna need it.

@wilshipley is garlic megadosing working for you? At least we know you're not a vampire. Or so you tell us.

@lazycoder I always feel bad when I see a room full of programmers staring at monitors like zombies. Except instead of bad I feel awesome.

@robzelt sadly, political writers are never on strike. but I second that emotion.

@cisellis get back to me when your flight is 1. totally cancelled at 3am and then 2. grounded in-flight due to midair medical emergency

@bakasan not worth the $600+ it'd cost me to upgrade my boom boom room to xbox 360 + rock band. I bought game+drums for PS2

@kevindente in a world overflowing with quality, why stoop to conquer?

@halostatue that is only a problem outside the US, I think. I've USB 3G tethered lots, gone hog-internet wild and never seen a big bill.

@anildash unless the need is absolutely urgent and unavoidable, always defer buying computers. or at least until after next Apple "event".

@jongalloway Zinc gluconate http://tinyurl.com/2fzdkp

@jongalloway yet another reason enumerating badness is like trying to enumerate infinity http://www.dontcensorme.com/digg/

@wilshipley I'd buy your product if you made it free!

@carnage4life there's still quite a bit of Rock Band stock, much more than Guitar Hero III w/guitar, which is sold out everywhere

@dotnetguy can OS X even *play* HD-DVD or BluRay? The point is kind of moot otherwise.. http://tinyurl.com/22oclx

@dotnetguy I'm sure the same restrictions apply in OS X.. the real evil here is HDCP/MPAA. Why revert to a seven year old OS?

@haacked I saw that. Aw, you guys are too nice.

@a7an LOL at http://tinyurl.com/2szeye

@i386 Flash : pyrrhic victory http://tinyurl.com/ylt56a

@i386 I cannot imagine browsing the web without a flash blocker. If that is considered "success" then what is failure, exactly?

@i386 outside of YouTube, which is the very definition of a killer app, I wouldn't say *flash* is a success even after 10+ years on the mkt

@i386 all the MS properties will go to silverlight sooner or later. Silverlight video is actually much better than typical versions of Flash

@kevindente why would anyone want to use non MS JavaScript toolkits? Inconceivable!!

@kevindente these are not the droids you're looking for (JavaScript Intellisense in 2008) http://tinyurl.com/28wozp

@inkedmn I make a distinction between web IDE and browsing. Firefox is a kick-ass web IDE, though-- I always install Firebug and Webdev.

@carnage4life welcome to the social!

@gruber gotta give you props on the title. Sense of humor is everything. http://tinyurl.com/ywb3dh

@chrisweiss the 32gb model is indeed selectable from the drop-down; I just copied the link from Engadget.

@blowdart wow, I didn't realize you had such great biceps. Can I get a ticket to the gun show?

@engtech what are these "centimeters" you speak of?

@henry_maddocks pff. Not even close. Unlike gruber, I don't hang my self-esteem at the doorstep of any company.

@henry_maddocks how so? opinions, sure, but I'm not like @daringfireball who must blog EVERY pro-apple and EVERY anti-MS thing he encounters

@kevindente w2k3 strictly enforces properly written 32-bit drivers; vista + xp don't

@dotnetguy wildcard mapping to ASP.NET is totally ghetto. Better to just switch to IIS7.

@dehora this "They Live"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/ yep, awesome. a classic, really.

@cisellis once they release a 3G iPhone with a bit more storage, it's pretty much game over for everyone else (+ lower price)

@cisellis think I've had my blackjack crash once in 6 months; sometimes I have connectivity issues, but that's it.

@kevindente CAS didn't work; too complex. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000820.html

@jongalloway (golf clap for new avatar) very nice. stay classy, galloway!

@halostatue I feel your pain. Birthdays near Xmas are cruelly unfair to the poor children who were unlucky enough to be born on those days.

@stilist exactly. I was aware of the commercial airline recreation crowd. Can you imagine "simulating" a typical passenger 747 flight? Whee!

@jongalloway my birthday is 12/27, so no. I never enter my real birthday into any application. Nor is 90210 my real zipcode.

@jongalloway I'm just getting the proper amount of humanitarian value out of my $25 shipping fee

@alanstevens but the macbook keyboard is completely screwed up as well. So carry an extra mouse AND keyboard? that's, uh, portable..

@kevindente I told you 64-bit was going to be relevant sooner than people thought! Including Mr. Kevin Dente!

@kevindente LOL, that's perfect.

@kevindente objects to human nature itself. Duly noted.

@anildash going through 2002 blog recommendations. http://tinyurl.com/2yv8nc

@a7an half the APIs Microsoft releases are ignored or unsuccessful. It's a gamble.

@LaTtEX so I'm guessing those same guys understand what all these different X-acto blades are for, too? Shiny!!

@kevindente if you "like" the MSDN forums your opinion on this matter is no longer worthy of consideration. phpBB (or variants) FTW

@kevindente re the crappy MS forums; another example of poor copying. Just make GOOD copies! (or, use non-MS forum tech, but fat chance)

@jongalloway what released browsers support JS 2.0? It is a FUTURE problem, yes, but not yet. Assuming the IE team pulls head out of ass.

@jongalloway you seem to want a kitchen sink web browser. I don't. I just want it to support modern standards and be FAST.

@gooberdlx the yellow sticker is a wumpus http://tinyurl.com/23khlm

@hotdogsladies Ronnie James Dio for America is *awesome*, and so was your hair. http://xrl.us/bcg6z

@haacked no, I don't think that works. You can say "I won't dignify that with a response" in conversation -- you *haven't* responded + or -

@haacked is in love with @shanselman -- get a room, people

@wilshipley but you're so money and you don't even know it!

@wilshipley clearly needs to get laid, based on his latest blog post.

@haacked but cats are so much fun! http://tinyurl.com/yw9kzy Animals are a lot easier to love than people.

@haacked did they bid $1 like on the Price is Right, because everyone else overbid? That's what jongalloway told me. He knows the show.

@jongalloway un-free WiFi is the norm. Everyone has their hand out. This is why "high speed" on the iPhone is a sick, sad joke.

@omarshahine 2gb is fine for Vista. Just disable all the security stuff, which cripples perf. Defender / UAC / System Protection.

@omarshahine considering 4 GB is a whopping eighty bucks now, starting to get very real

@jongalloway why don't you use that "open as IE tab" extension thingie? OWA rocks.

@lazycoder urgh, that DHTML asteroids is painfully primitive. Flash/Silverlight IS better in these kinds of cases.

@omarshahine almost zero plugins work with 64-bit IE, including Flash. 32-bit IE is de rigeur on 64-bit.

@kevindente still waiting to hear your story on JavaScript Intellisense. I'm guessing not good, based on the quiet.

@kevindente are there *any* IDEs that can do meaningful intellisense in the crazy-ass indeteriminate world of JavaScript?

@hotdogsladies at what point does talking about ways to improve productivity become a productivity drain? Or worse, productivity porn?

@kevindente until dual and quad are the same price for the same speed, you're better off with the faster dual (minus rare corner cases)

@lazycoder hammer time is in singstar 90's, which I have http://tinyurl.com/27cogl

@jongalloway 's daughters built me a little pixel wumpus out of those crazy aqua dots. Aww. I'll be ingesting some later for party time.

@lazycoder I don't think that's actually what's happening. Dynamic languages are influencing static languages.

@superdalgas can you email me? your domain is down and I urgently need to contact you. Got an email from Jan W.

@kevindente next you'll be telling us all your VBScript code stopped working on your web pages. Oh noes!

@haacked watch the Guitar Hero episode of South Park.

@kevindente thanks for coming buy and playing Poker and Rock Band with us Vertigo peoples! p.s. you rocked the drums

@accordionguy people are so nice when you're leaving a job. Sometimes I wish I could quit a job not just once, but EVERY day!

@haacked my outlook 2007 search works just as good as Gmail's

@kevindente go 64-bit ; the desktop heap is automatically larger in 64-bit

@shanselman congratuations on the new baby!

@blowdart I will ship free weekend twitter stickers internationally , but I gotta limit it to the first three requests!

@lazycoder I read that comment as "Watching SuperFly with a sick little girl". Awesome.

@omarshahine thinks the new Zune player UI "makes iTunes look like Excel".

@haacked the problem with this logic is that you're paying "the complexity tax" in advance for unspecified future promise. What if YAGNI?

@AccordionGuy (via) Is that all you got?? http://tinyurl.com/29yh3p

@kevindente so you're saying Windows Vista Smoky Bacon Edition was a *bad* idea? http://tinyurl.com/2shp62

@haacked nobody cares about code correctness. What end users do care about is software that helps them kick ass. Even if it's spaghetti.