I'm giving up my "boycott" of RIAA-controlled music. There's a lot of reasons for this change of heart:

• The RIAA has distribution deals with just about every label out there. If you're looking at discs in Borders, WalMart, Barnes and Noble, or Best Buy, there's a good chance that record …

Happy Birthday, Julie! Hope you have a very happy birthday!

Slashdot | Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug

Apparently Excel 2007 has a nice multiplication bug that you should all be aware of in case you decide to be foolish enough to run Excel 2007. Here's how to reproduce it (unfortunately I don't have access to Excel 2007, so I can't verify personally …

Happy Birthday, Sean! Hope you're having a great birthday today!

It's customary in any programming language for one to provide a simple example of displaying "Hello World" in that language. Generally these examples are quite contrived, as they tell you nothing about the actual language, and have been construed in several notable cases to show why one language is more …