I just read Hannes post about the fictional future of "search engines" and how they work with any given information. In my opinion there is a general risk for a persons privacy when search algorithms add information such as buying patterns in real life (which is possible with RFID technology) to a personal profile

One week ago I switched on ClearType on my desktop system. The system is a dual head system with one crt and one tft connected. I never heard about ClearType before I got my Axim X5v PDA which has ClearType enabled by default. The reading experience on that device is very nice. Everything is very smooth. Now I'm using ClearType on my desktop and this is my experience: Reading E-Books is really great and you're not getting tired of reading many articles.The desktop looks crappy. The Font of the icons...

Last Friday I met my old friend Hannes Pavelka. We had some beer in a really nice pub here in Dortmund (Limericks ) as he talked about unit testing in his current project. They use NUnit throughout the whole developing process. The biggest problem though is that they do not write their test before implementing, because it is to time consuming! There are different approaches to replace existing API for testing and avoid calling resource intensive objects. One is called "mocking", the other is known...