Suppose you built a site and nobody came? TBD aimed to capture the boomer market, but unfortunately, the boomers wanted to get their own facebook accounts! Read more at: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/tbd-joins-the-deadpool/.

Interesting to see if any demographic specific sites (for us older folks) have any measure of success in the future.

Read more about this at: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Apples-600-Mac-Mini-Costs-It-Nearly-400-to-Make-Says-iSuppli-163404/?kc=EWKNLNAV06302009STR2.

A side note to eweek, what is the deal with the banner and the background? If I was browsing at a lower resolution the pages would have been a bit (more) annoying!

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For a concise explanation of the two datatypes in SQL Server, see: http://weblogs.asp.net/guys/archive/2005/01/15/353550.aspx.

Read Peter Bodo's commentary on the 1st day of Wimbledon, with an amusing analysis of R. Federer's opening day costume!

Find the article at: http://tennisworld.typepad.com/tennisworld/2009/06/w.html.

Go to: http://www.wimbledon.org/ to view live scores, lookup stats etc.

And a shout out to Vince Spadea, who defeated his opponent in straight sets ... I think he's 35 and still able to win a grand slam match ... not too bad, considering most guys are out of tennis by 30.

I never really liked how Google ignored copyright (for the good of the people, of course!), and thought this article on Techcrunch was an interesting discussion of some of the issues: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/bezos-doesnt-like-googles-book-settlement-either/.

Not really, "do no evil" in my opinion.

Check out Travis Parrott's (ATP tourning Pro) nice video blog on tennis @ http://www.insidethegametv.com/.

I wish Microsoft would/could just buy Yahoo and get it over with ... at least the combined companies would have a better (albeit very small in my opinion) of offering an alternative to Google. A bit of pressure would be good for Google. Anyway, read more about the traffic stats (Yahoo vs Bing) at: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsofts-Bing-May-Not-Have-Lead-on-Yahoo-After-All-502719/?kc=EWKNLINF06102009STR5.

While I'm more interested in finding the best data plan as I look to ditch my landlines, check out the following review of Palm' forthcoming Pre device: http://www.mydigitalfc.com/gadgets/palm%E2%80%99s-credible-challenge-iphone-762. Looks promising, but so did the Storm!

While I don't think VISTA is quite as bad as everyone says it is, I'll still welcome Windows 7, especially if MS can trim all of the different versions and price points. Read more about the upcoming release (October 2009) here: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Windows-7-Hits-the-Street-on-Oct-22-799332/?kc=EWKNLNAV06032009STR1.