Really, name a cruise ship the MS Explorer, and of course it’ll crash. Silly people. A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began sinking, but all 154 passengers and crew, Americans and Britons among them, took to lifeboats and were plucked to safety by a passing cruise ship. The Chilean navy said [...]

Sigh… why do I always get sucked into these things? By now, it seems like everyone has read Life at Google – The Microsoftie Perspective. And now, I too am getting sucked into this discussion… The email pretty much states that one of the primary goals of this article is to give pointers for how [...]

The front page of the Seattle Times today featured an article on me (and some other people) in reference to employees leaving Microsoft to go to Google. After three internships at Microsoft and a two year stint as a Microsoft campus representative, why didn’t I go to Microsoft? I went to Penn’s career fair yesterday [...]

Well, the Xtreme.NET Challenge was a great success. Here are the winners: 1st: David Siegel, MailAssist 2nd: Wesley & Brandon Rosenblum, KnowtionNet 3rd: Matt Jones, FTP Studio Finalists: Jeremy Pfund, Chess Express Ashfaq Rahman, QI Chung-tah Tsao, Quattro David, Matt and Jeremy were my students in cse099 this semester, and Wesley was my student last [...]

The Task.NET Challenge has officially opened. This contest is ideally for people new to .NET, but all Penn and Drexel students are invited to enter.First Prize: 20 GB Zen Portable Media Center

Prizes for the Xtreme.NET Challenge have been announced: 1st Prize: 20 GB Zen Portable Media Center and an Xbox 2nd Prize: 20 GB Zen Portable Media Center 3rd Prize: 20 GB Zen Portable Media Center TBA: Finalist Prizes