Nobody likes getting ripped off, and I’m no exception. I search the web from time to time to see who’s copying my stuff, and it’s always a little disheartening. This week I ran a check to see who was copying my 20-year old LZW Compression article. Mind you, I’m not talking about isolated quotes taken [...]

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Microsoft has added a new keyword to C# as part of the 4.0 release earlier this year. Objects that are typed as dynamic bypass normal static type checking, allowing C# to have the flexibility of other scripting languages. This is all well and good, but the headline writers of the blogosphere have taken a decided [...]

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Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out – Samuel Johnson Monday, November 17, 2008 8:00 AM Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is Maxine Perkins and for the next six weeks, I will be either your best friend or your [...]

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Jeff Bezos Hawks the Kindle It’s still not clear whether electronic books are the wave of the future or a consumer products cul-de-sac. Technology continues to improve, and there are certainly lots of good reasons for a device like Amazon’s Kindle to be the leading edge of a major wave of adoption. A few of [...]

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The eminently quotable Samuel Johnson had a very pragmatic view about writing, and was quoted by Boswell as having said: No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. Personally, I think Johnson is pretty close to the mark on this one, but I will add one caveat. Ask any writer about their first [...]

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