Piete writes "The BBC's Tomorrow's World has just shown an item on MotionWare. It looked very impressive. By stimulating the inner ear, the user feels that they are moving. Some very impressive shots of children swaying and falling over! "

Well, I seriously doubt any of you were going to buy the latest endeavour from Mr. Gates, but I've got two simply scintillating reviews, courtesy of Jon Katz and Doc Technical (Of The Story of Ping fame. Which, BTW, I know ended up on Amazon. We had it first *grin*.) Click below for some excellent Monday morning reading.

SEGV, another of our resident book reviewers has written a review of the new Scott Meyer's book More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs. This is a follow-up to his previous book, and is designed for people familiar with the language.
On a different note, if you are interested in reviewing, drop me a line. We need more reviews, and I even have some books to send out as tank oos.

Shlomi Fish has written up a piee on why Oracle and Java can't work together, but why Perl and Oracle will. It might be a language war type piece, but I don't really think it is. Both of these languages are really hot right now, and Shlomi does a great job explaining some of the reasons why.

Loyal reader SEGV has written a review of Effective C++, the language we all know and love. A good book for people who have a grasp of the language and looking to deepen their knowledge. Click below to read more.

Chris Short writes "In a move that creates a rift among a industry coalition against MS, HP has announced that it is releasing it own JAVA Virtual Machine. This VM will be a subset of JAVA and will, along with MS, break JAVA's "write once, run anywhere" promise. HP insists that it still supports Sun's JAVA, but has created this subset for commercial appliances. Among the companies that have already licensed the HP VM is Microsoft for Windows CE. For articles on this look at news.com or the Wall Street Journal."