It's delicious, especially with either scrambled eggs for breakfast... or as one of the meats served in Chinese hot-pot.

Both George AND James Tiberius.

Kirk wouldn't have allowed himself to be captured by the Borg.

I've been busting my butt, saving as much as I can, paying my bills (and paying down my mortgage), so from that standpoint, I am making myself better off because of self-discipline and good choices.

But the prospects of being "better off" are being destroyed by an out of control government with reckless and limitless spending, a loss of poilitical freedom, and unequal enforcement of laws based on who one is, what one believes in, and where one comes from. It's absolutely maddening.

I'm better off financially, yes. But overall? Hardly.

...I wish the UN would exercise it's right to go f*** itself.

...to know where this is going.

Is this a bad laptop, or a bad iPad wannabe? I can't really tell at this point.

I've made a career and a living off Microsoft products, and I'm grateful to the life that company has allowed me to provide for myself. But it's clear now they're in decline. They've lost their edge, their focus... their ability to innovate. This is a defensive play, and it's just not gonna fly.

And I'm not just a consumer and a developer, but an MSFT shareholder. As such, I'd like to see Ballmer get out of Redmond and make way for someone to bring the company back to a leadership position... while there's still time.

Not terribly helpful for MS to do this, to keep attracting new devs coming out of school. Are they trying to kill .NET as a web platform?

New grads (or upperclassmen) now will just go with LAMP (or a variation) for web, foregoing .NET altogether. And what timing too... iOS development is really building a critical mass.

Bad move, Redmond...

Three things:

* So if the comments are really anonymous, whom do they prosecute?
* If the comments and/or the websites originate from outside the jurisdiction...?
* The First Amendment.

Nothing else will do...

This is not terribly different from different countries on the map lining up with either the US or the Soviets... or going non-aligned.

It's a good old fashioned "military alliance"... just with patents and lawyers instead of nuclear warheads.

I don't believe in this "politically correct" nonsense. I'm a Christian and don't really care what anyone thinks about it. Celebrate the holidays or this time of year however you want. I will.

In that light, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Not knocking Drupal or any other CMS, but don't get yourself boxed into just one specific platform. Keep up on where the overall development world is going.

Most shops still build their websites in-house from scratch, without a CMS. Many strictly-Microsoft shops purposely avoid using Sharepoint, for example.

Remember when ColdFusion was a big deal? Not so anymore. GoDaddy is dropping it from their hosting accounts.

Keep your foot in general Java or .NET or PHP development... stay focused on the bigger picture, not just in a specific type of project. Watch the trends. What may be popular today will become passe tomorrow.

Does that mean the staff of your ISP has to be hauled into The Hague and charged with Crimes Against Humanity, for denying you of your "human rights"?

Everyone has opinions, everyone has agendas; and believes they know how to use them.

So-called "concerned scientists" profess their desire to "save the world", but isn't it convenient that part of the plan to do that just HAS to include the taking of money from everyone to go into this fund or that fund or some kind of "program" which will supposedly "save the world"... anyone see any results? I haven't.

All I have to say is that I recall in 1991 a single, large volcanic eruption in the Phillipines that spewed more so-called "greenhouse gases" into the earth's atmosphere than the aggregate of all human activity ever recorded. Mankind may do stupid things to itself, but wrecking the planet's climate due to the regular activities of daily living will not be one of them.

So please, folks, spare me all this "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" or whatever-the-hell-it's-called-these-days bullshit. Because bullshit is all it is.