Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is becoming a full-fledged Hollywood movie, starring Johnny Depp and directed by no other than Tim Burton! Whatch the trailer. Not much to see yet, but this is a really exciting film project. Maybe this...

I just read "If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers" and had myself a good laugh. This is exactly how it is to be a web designer. I will begin to hand this out in printed form to all my future stupid clients, if they don't listen to me. ;-)

Arve Bersvendsen writes about Search Engine Optimization and enumerates a set of great tips for what you should do to have your website as Googlebot-friendly as possible.

Which File Extension are You?....

Several weblogs and news sites are writing about MegaSIM that seems to be a solution to my memory mountbankery frustration.

I've queried James Clark about SP — «An SGML System Conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 — Standard Generalized Markup Language», because I would very much like to make it available to .NET-grokking people like myself.

Too many developers feel that they have a little artist in their tummy that just has to get out. And instead of releasing the little artist-bastart with paint on a canvas, in music, or anywhere else, they do it in their software. That is so painfully annoying that my eyes almost start to bleed when I see it.

I've written about wishes for future versions of C# before, but I have a couple of more wishes I'd like to add, so here goes.

I just read the magnificent book In the beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson. Just a fantastic read I can recommend everyone who’s interested in operating system history, information technology culture, why Microsoft has almost total market share,...

Sue Sims at Opera have posted a USENET message about how to increase the use of the Opera browser in the U.S. If you use or like Opera and live in the U.S., please send her an e-mail!

I just wanted to tell every stupid moron in the universe that happen to pronounce “Prodigy” in shuffled order — “Progidy” — that they pronounce it wrong. It’s “Prodigy” with the d first, and then the g, not the other...

I use C# as my primary programming language, and like it very much. To me, it represents "Java -- done right" or at least "Java -- done better". But still, the language is not perfect. Here's a couple of things that I think would improve it (and the .NET framework) greatly.

Fengtek Releases Motherboard Designed Using Feng Shui Principles. The funniest read was: Reviewers at several websites were unable to get the motherboard to power up in any configuration. Fengtek technical support said this would allow more time for meditation.Probably a...

I just read the latest Dilbert comic strip, where Norway is mentioned. And as always, in a humorous, sarcastic or negative way. This time, it was for our language, which accompanied by the Swedes, is thought to sound just like...

I've written a little tool that takes an URI, downloads the HTML it finds there, translates it into an XML document and then allows for arbitrary XPath expressions to be executed against it.