If you are given a choice between brunch here and a 7-11, you are better off at the 7-11 University Village is an upscale shopping mall near the University of Washington with a variety of restaurants. This weekend, when we found that all the places we normally would eat had long lines because of some [...]
this “neighborhood place” loved by “all” is to be avoided at all costs When this new high-end-aspiring spot took over Seattle’s favorite Hippie cafe it was hailed as another sign on the accelerating gentrification of beloved Fremont. I wasn’t going to hold that against it, because from the outside it looked like it had some [...]
What is going wrong with Seattle Restaurants? Hey a new Category! Seattle is known as a fairly snobby place when it comes to food. We introduced expensive gourmet coffees and weird sounding microbrews to the world. For most of Seattle’s history it was a fairly blue-collar kind of town. With restaurants focusing on quantity as [...]
want to know why Windows is so easily hacked? As technologies progress and our devices are ever more networked with each other, security in operating systems has become increasingly complex. This complexity makes the systems themselves less secure because it is harder for developers to understand it. So the OS vendors add complexity to deal [...]
Cross platform development was never simple, but it could be simpler if Microsoft decided to support some standards occasionally Now, I’ve been responsible for at least some of the Microsoft APIs inflicted upon developers, so I take some responsibility here. I don’t expect that Microsoft should have X Windows or Display Postscript or anything. I [...]
What is with this new category? I haven’t written on software engineering here for various reasons. Probably because it is difficult to do this without directly referencing stuff that I’m working on. My employer might consider this a bad thing. It is my profession, however. At least at the moment, I’ve been bugged by certain [...]
