One of the keys to successful international travel is to pack lots of reading material for the planes, airports, and hotels. I typically pack a few of my favorite aviation magazines (Model Airplane News and Aviation History, among others) as well as 3 Read More...

I arrived in Beijing night before last for the front end of a two-week stint in China. Yesterday I hired a driver and went to the nearby town of Mutianyu to see another section of the Great Wall. (When I visited Beijing earlier this year, I visited the Read More...

I was shocked and saddened this morning to learn that David Boschmans passed away suddenly. David worked for Microsoft Europe and was one of my best Microsoft pals on the other side of the pond. I've been exchanging e-mail with him in recent weeks getting Read More...

I've been heads-down in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh for the past several days. Now that I've come up for air, I'd like to share a few tips, tricks, and work-arounds for glitches in the current builds that other developers Read More...

In the October 1970 issue of Scientific American (“Mathematical Games: The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway’s New Solitaire Game ‘Life’,” p.120), Martin Gardner described a mathematical game devised by Cambridge University mathematician John Horton Read More...