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Verzion gets vicious in their latest holiday season offensive on the iPhone, and make no mistake here: they’re assaulting the iPhone here, not AT&T as a competitor. The telling thing here is that rather than selling the DROID on its own merits, Verizon feels they have to belittle the entrenched competition to get mindshare. [...]

Thanks to one friendly and helpful Michael Henriksen I was invited to the Google Wave preview about three weeks ago. It is a very interesting communication and collaboration tool that has the potential to change the way we interact with others online, but it is not without it’s flaws.

I recently had need to parse a large (100 MB) CSV file with Python and was pleased with how speedy it was. However, the test machine I was using was strapped for disk space and a 100 MB file was, shall we say, less than welcome. Zipping the file compressed it down to 5 [...]

I ran into an interesting discussion at work yesterday regarding SQL and how a sane DBMS would handle the following:

SELECT * FROM a
INNER JOIN b
ON a.id = b.game_id
WHERE a.name = ‘wow’

Jeff Atwood has provided a very handy visual guide to how SQL joins work, and I feel I have a good grasp on the basics. [...]

Slashot reports the happy ending:
The one summary judgement that puts a stick into SCO’s spokes has just come down. The judge in the epic SCO case has ruled that SCO doesn’t own the Unix copyrights. With that one decision, a whole bunch of other decisions will fall like dominoes.
If you listen really carefully, you can [...]

Have you been to a tech conference lately? They’re dominated, absolutely dominated, by MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Their employers are happy to buy them because they’re fast, reliable and productive. I know I love mine. But ask any of those happy MacBook-toting people what they have on their desks at work, and they’ll admit to [...]

The new iMacs are beautiful, but there are two big problems:

I bought an iPhone. It’s got it’s issues, but after a month’s ownership I can say it’s the best gadget I’ve ever purchased.