The post-PC era continues. Fiction lovers with too much time on their hands have determined that today is the anniversary of the day Bilbo Baggins, protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, reached Erebor, the Lonely Mountain. I am struck anew by the fragility and unreliability of the software I use every day. I swear, it's like a house of cards.
Nothing is quite so boring as reading about someone else's system crash .
If anybody wants to gather a force and storm Redmond later, count me in. It's Olympic gold medal figure skater Oksana Baiul 's birthday today. TechWeb is reporting that Beta 2 of Microsoft's Visual Studio. Net will be enhanced with special features for ASPs. ASPs, in case you haven't been following the trends, are application service providers.