Creating Some Creatures

So, after a couple failed attempts of getting DirectX 9.0c to work on my Vista Enterprise notebook (who would have thought), I am finally able to play the trial version of the Spore: Creature Creator.  And I must say it is addicting and awesome.  It is cool to see a creature that you are building [...]

Google Chrome: Shine it up a little

So, I finally got a around to downloading and playing a bit with Google’s new browser (Chrome) after the weird redirection from the Chrome download page to Google.com that I suffered.
First off, I do like the browser.  It seems very simple and somewhat refined.  I appreciate how there is not that much to it; tabs, [...]

Windows 7 Development; 2500 strong

According to the E7 blog and Ars Technica, the Windows 7 (our only hope) dev team is 2500 employees thick and split up into 25 teams (only 23 teams are listed).  Steven Sinofsky is at the healm of the Windows and Windows Live Engineering groups and is in charge of this vast undertaking.  In this [...]

Dell loses the patent fight, “Cloud Computing” remains free

Over at Slashdot there is a posting about how Dell, Inc. has not been able to gain the rights to the term, “Cloud Computing.”
The US Patent Office has given Dell a “non-final” termination of their early 2007 bid (which basically leaves it wide open for Dell to file a response). The USPATO basically said that [...]