Monday, May 22, 2006 - Posts

• MS Launches Skyscrapr.com: A community for aspiring software architects

  The latest cool website from the guys who brought you http://channel9.msdn.com and http://on10.net.  From the site: "Skyscrapr is your window on the architectural perspective. Discover the different disciplines of system architecture, as well Read More posted Monday, May 22, 2006 11:20 PM by Dave | 0 Comments Filed Under: Microsoft, Internet

• Mountain Dew Code Red: Unleash The Code Game

  What the heck?  http://www.codered.com/  Now THIS is a great way to kill time between meetings. Read More posted Monday, May 22, 2006 7:53 PM by Dave | 0 Comments Filed Under: Internet

• Xbox Live Marketplace Surpasses 24M Downloads

  The Xbox360 was, and is, the gold standard of console gaming.  Was it spendy?  Yeah.  Was it worth it?  HELL yeah. Anyway, the real killer app for the 360 is the Xbox Live experience.  It is so successful, in fact, that it has Read More posted Monday, May 22, 2006 7:47 PM by Dave | 0 Comments Filed Under: Microsoft, Xbox 360, Console Gaming

• Portland General Electric's Trojan Nuclear Plant cooling tower imploded

  From the SeattleTimes.com article: "The Trojan Nuclear Plant's cooling tower took a year to build and cost more than $10 million. It came down in about 10 seconds Sunday morning... The cooling tower, which was part of Oregon's only nuclear-power plant, Read More posted Monday, May 22, 2006 7:39 PM by Dave | 0 Comments Filed Under: Movies

• Microsoft FlexGo introduces 'pay as you go' PCs

  It seems to work for cell phones, why not Windows-based PCs?  From the Seattle PI story: "In a departure from their traditional business models, Microsoft and hardware makers will test a pay-as-you-go plan for PC users in emerging markets around Read More posted Monday, May 22, 2006 6:17 PM by Dave | 0 Comments Filed Under: Microsoft, Internet