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?

I'm looking for a new job for the new year. Here's a link to my resume, and the gripping tale of why it is a good time for a fresh start