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  I will be speaking at the MongoDB conference in New York City on May 21st. I will cover their .NET/C# Development segment. We have a great demo lined up, and I look forward to seeing you all there. MongoDB is an excellent open-source database which specializes in document-oriented (object-oriented) storage. You can save complex objects ...

I'm sitting here on a short trip to Munich, and just read Greg Mankiw's latest post regarding today's New York Times article by Paul Krugman regarding European Social Democracy and the pending US healthcare reform. Paul Krugman essentially argues that economic advance can come hand-in-hand with social democracy. From what I can ...

As an honest consumer who purchases all his music, software, movies and anything else, it annoys me when a content provider goes out of there way to keep me from paying them for their content. A perfect example is the HBO show Entourage.  A great show which you can find old episodes of on iTunes of -- want to pay them $5, $10 or even $100 ...

@cartman True, but there is a trend towards smaller computing devices, a new and streamlined distribution model, and away from the "I must have Windows because thats where my programs run" mentality.  That last one is big, because it has the potential to shift the balance of power in the technology industry from Microsoft to people ...

@cartman There is certainly a cloudy definition (no pun intended)...  I think a desktop OS is mostly defined as an OS which is very feature rich and is designed to hold applications, state and processing locally. This would differ from a cloud computing device because cloud computing is meant to only cache data locally, and while we've ...

While doing some reading on Chinese quality of life and pollution last week, I noticed some interesting figures released by the WorldBank.  The estimated cost to GDP of pollution emitted by China is a total of 5.8%. That's rediculously high; every year, China is losing 5.8% of their GDP to damage to their environment. Whats more ...

Time and time again noise builds around the (re)introduction of thin client computing, the death of the desktop OS and the emergence of a single, large networked computer that we all work on.  A super mainframe that is omnipresent across all devices and networks. But it has not been since the days of the drab green screens of the main frames ...

@Josh Yeah, I agree that the deployment situation, at least on single platform, has been largely solved.  Why people feel safe in the browser chrome is hard for me to quantify, but the fact that people seem to like that environment is undeniable.  The reason XBAP and Silverlight live in the browser is because it is the environment ...

@Daniel I agree WMP is better about this.  I did say iTunes sucks on Windows...  Apple can't make Windows software for anything... That being said, WMP can only tack file moves while its open...  OSX can maintain it it when iTunes is closed.