Project Management with Trac

NewsForge has an interesting post entitled 'Project management with Trac.' The article has peeked my interest in Trac. It looks like I should look at little futher into Trac.

Tax Advice For Powerball Winners

I have not played Powerball for a number of years so that advice does not apply to me. I like the saying that the "lottery is a tax on people who can't do math." During a stats class in my college days we did the math. Every since that day I have bought a total of 5 tickets over 10 years. When every I do play I do it for entertainment purposes only. With all that said the Tax Prof blog has an interesting post "Powerball Winners Get Faulty Tax Advice."

Best Practices For Least Privileged Development

I found this article on the MSDN site in the Windows Vista Developer Center. The article is entitled 'Developer Best Practices and Guidelines for Applications in a Least Privileged Environment.'

This is a fairly large article. It covers why you should develop using a Least Privileged Environment, design considerations, deploying the application and much more. I have been toying with the idea trying to develop in a least privileged environment for a while now. It looks like I will have to expend alot of time an effort to setup the development environment. I am just not sure that the payoff will be worth it? If anyone has tried development in a least privileged environment I would like to hear from you.

Sony Mini Disk

Sony is releasing two new versions of the MD walkman. You can find more product information here.

Other postings about the new MD devices: I4UNews and Gizmodo.

Free EBooks

Over at Peter Watts' website Rifters.com you can down two free books in PDF format. I have not read the books but the price is good.

2005.11.02 Update: Microsoft has over 1500 books available for free in there eBook Catalog. All the books are in Microsoft Reader foramt. The books are from the public domain and various reference materials.

Book Review: The Elements of Style

This is a book that everyone should own and reference. The books covers grammar rules, principles of composition, form, commonly misused words and expressions finally concluding with developing your own style. This is the type of book where you get a lot out of it the first time you read it and it teaches you something every time to reference it. I now finally understand what some of my English teachers where trying to teach me.

Authors: William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
Title: The Elements of Style
Publisher: Longman Publishers
ISBN: 020530902X

2005.11.02 Update: NPR is running a story about the "'Elements of Style' Goes Beyond Words." It appears that music and visuals are being added.

Google Video

Google Video allows you to search for material from archived TV programs, educational videos, personal productions and more.