G4TV has posted the animated Star Trek doll shorts from their Star Trek 2.0 show on YouTube.com. These are hilarious:

Flash Videos:

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• Coffee House


• Cribs


• Karaoke

... Tune in and prosper!

Picked up this slashdot.org story while eating a salad at my desk earlier today:

Rico Mariani, an eighteen-year Microsoft veteran, speaks at the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club about his experiences at Microsoft, industry trends, etc.

It's an amusing and interesting talk. Download the video from the U Waterloo Computer Science Club's media server.

> NewsForge article: 18 Years of Software Tools: An Insider's View

> Download the video (Windows Media format)

I got back into Seattle late last night after spending a week back in Maine visiting with Vicki and the dogs, trying to get a few repair items completed, and generally trying to figure out what the hell-all-else needs to get done in order to get them out here in Washington with me. I wasn't nearly as productive last week as I had hoped I would be. I did manage to get up on the main roof, get strapped off to the chimney, and fix several cracks in the mortar that was leaking in the recent heavy rains. Also, did a quick run down to Massachusetts and delivered several 21" monitors and some workstations to my Dad who will put them to good use.

So it's Sunday morning and I'm sitting in the P & G Speakeasy Cafe in Duvall drinking a quad-shot mocha and taking advantage of the free wireless and mellow B.B. King pumping out from behind the counter. This is a chilled little cafe and I think I'll be hanging out here a lot if for no other reason than they have broadband and I still need to drop some more trees before getting a satelite signal out at the house.

An interesting conference early next year will be the ACM SIGPLAN 2007 Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM'07). http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM07