This triaging technique is aimed at quickly working through a long list of e-mail and deciding which e-mails need your attention now, and which ones can wait until later. By the end of this post you’ll know how to triage each new e-mail with a couple quick clicks and you will have easy access to the messages that need your attention throughout the day.

via Rands: Like his column, it’s clear Cringley has layered a generous amount of fiction on the stories surrounding the defining moments of the likes of Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe, but it’s a delicious fiction. Who cares whether Bill Gates was arrested for reckless driving? It’s a set of compelling stories about the earliest days of our industry, complete with nerd heroes, egotistical, coke snorting jerks, and the continual expectation an amazing new product was always just about to be released.

Microsoft Comic Chat was an application released in 1996 (with Internet Explorer 3.0) that took normal IRC chat room discussion and displayed the messages as if they were said by comic strip characters. It’s the most eccentric widely-released chat client ever.

The complete interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at the D5 Conference.

Photosynths are a 3D-like space from (tons) of your photos. They're free to create and here's how to do it.

Our friends over on the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog recently announced some great new features in the Excel, Word, and PowerPoint Web Apps. Among the new goodies are some brand new themes that you’ll find in the Select Theme dialog when you create a new presentation on SkyDrive. We’ve also re-organized the gallery in a way that we believe will better suit your needs.

RT @tcarmody: A 21st century Ezra Pound could reinvent epic poetry by judiciously incorporating these autosummarized piths/gists: http:/ ...

Apple has a typography desk. It is not exactly crowded with developers vying for every square centimetre, but it really exists. Have you ever heard of it? Could you tell me who runs it? Can you point to any publicly available resources about it?

"The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re simply not even part of the game." Gruber's post-I/O thoughts: http://j.mp/diEasF

"Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it."

Bing, Microsoft's relaunch and rebrand of Live.com, went live today. And it's exactly the same (so far). Some related links down the left, and a preview section on the right, but otherwise I see precious few of the 'decision engine' features we were promised. Maybe in time?