What is a covenant anyway? The U.S. government has been agressive in demanding that other countries accede to noxious IPR innovations. Does international law need to catch up for when IPR owners want to give up these "rights"?

I wasn't there and I didn't see Sam Ruby, etc. Here is my fake report anyway.

One out of seven SAO projects have failed?

What makes it tick?

A nice background article on compression from Intel.

If you can diagnose this, I dub you a Hero of the XML Revolution. Hint: it is probably the most common problem for English-language XML documents.

A good C++ programming technique that has almost no published material available on the WWW relates to using the special pipeline instructions in modern CPUs for faster text processing. Here's example code using C++ intrinsic functions to give a fourfold speed increase for a UTF-8 to UTF-16 converter compared to the original C/C++ code.

'IE 7 will only accept well-formed XML in web feeds'

Where the real work gets done?

The first book on a new discipline?