Found this on Slashdot. I already am a big fan of Sake, but who knew it was so versatile?

Looks like a another company has stolen some of the thunder from Google’s announcement offering 1GB of email. Spymac announces in this post that they offer 1GB of email storage with a promise that there will be no adwords or other forms of promotion linked to email content.

If you haven’t tried it yet, you should really give Froogle a look. I’m currently looking to buy an LCD monitor and I checked the usual suspects, Pcworld and Tomshardware for reviews, Pricegrabber for prices, but due to lack of inertia, I never thought to try Froogle.

Microsoft just released the the Microsoft Sql Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer 1.0. It’s basically FxCop for SQL Server. Very cool.

Now I’m every bit as much the bleeding heart liberal as the guy to my left, but I have to say that I believe the outcry against offshoring and outsourcing is purely a reactionary response to the current bad economy. I don’t believe that opposition to outsourcing is not based in sound economic principal nor is good for the country in the long run.

Adam Kinney posts about finding Google phrases that return your site at #1 with more than 100 results.

The search company launches Gmail, an e-mail service with so much free storage that users will never have to delete messages, it claims.

For the past few months I’ve been teaching myself Longhorn programming via the PDC bits by building a better Spam filter. Some of the best filters will typically use an approach based on Bayesian probability modeling. For example, in this article Paul Graham discusses an improved algorithm for filtering spam

I’m looking to host my site and I’m ready to pay money!!! Does anyone have any recommendations? Right now, my top choices are WebHost4Life which has unlimited bandwidth, $9.95 a month, 150 MB disk space and 150 MB SQL Server space, with a $19.95 setup fee.

Every time someone tells me to register a component in the GAC, I think of GAK. Do you remember GAK? It was this Are you sure an alien didn’t sneeze this up? brightly colored gooey junk made by Nickelodeon. You can still buy the stuff!.

I’ve been on a real Anthony Pappa kick lately. Right now I’m listening to Resolution CD 2 Track 12, “Solstice” at home and am blown away at how rich and full it sounds on my piddly Altec Lansing computer speakers. I spend way too much listening to my music turned down real low at work that I don’t appreciate how good this stuff can sound in the a half way decent environment.

Rory at Neopoleon.com has an interesting proposition for would-be Computer Science mentors. Basically, he’s willing to pay for one-on-one tutoring in CS concepts over the web.

I just realized that I haven’t been to Google.com in a very long time. Maybe months. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’ve used Google plenty, but now with the IE Google bar and the Desktop Google bar, I have very few reasons to actually go to the Google front page. My view of Google lately has been search results.

UPDATE: I’ve since learned this name is often deemed offensive and you should order an Irish Slammer instead

According to this article, Steven Hawking’s wife has been questioned by British detectives over claims that she has been assaulting the brainy cosmologist (no, a cosmologist is not someone who writes for Cosmo).

Found this interesting post via Eric Gunnerson’s blog (PM for the C# compliler team) blog.

Don’t you hate it when you momentarily lose all control and pig out like a death row inmate on his last meal? I need to exhibit more self control during those “all you can eat” moments, because I am so uncomfortable right now.

How quickly would the pledge be altered if it ended “one nation under Allah” or “one nation under Buddah”?

A group of us went snowboarding at Mammoth mountain this past weekend to celebrate Judy’s (Dan’s wife) birthday. I won’t be so uncouth to tell you how old she turned. We stayed in a nice little condo with the 7 of us.

Found this on another website. Sorta ties into my earlier rant about Bush’s stance on the whole gay marriage issue: