Entries from March 2007

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

my iTunes quandry follow up follow up

Yeah, turns out iTunes doesn’t like symlinks. So having some folders in my iTunes library symlinked to another drive worked as long as I wasn’t adding new files into that folder (like podcasts). Podcasts would never leave the download directory and get moved into the symlinked root. So I just got a bigger drive, which [...]

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Open Call From the Patent Office – washingtonpost.com

Open Call From the Patent Office – washingtonpost.com The patent office has decided to open up the approval process to anyone on the net. Allowing internet users to make claims regarding the voracity of a patent’s uniqueness and also show evidence of prior art. The first group of patents that will go under this public [...]

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Is Microsoft Screwing Up WPF/E?

Simon Brocklehurst thinks so, and I agree with him. Microsoft has a long history of promising to support other platforms and then coming up short or dropping them quickly. We used to joke at Microsoft that cross platform meant both Windows98 and WindowsNT.