Nick Hodges

• What a fascinating idea:  Using CAPTCHA in blogs, etc., to help translate inaccurate OCR scans of older books.  The harnessing of collective knowledge like this is really cool.  Of course, these types of things should always be used for good, and for not some nefarious, spam-helping scam.
• Richard Foersom pointed this out in the newsgroups:  there are 2432 projects in SourceForge using Delphi (or Kylix).  Pick one and get involved!
• Do you read Japanese?  If so, you can read all about my trip to Japan
  • http://enterprise.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/topic/2007/10/22/11430.html
  • http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/200710/22/codegear.html
  • http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20071022/285131/
  • http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20071022/140976/
  • http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2007/10/23/delphi/
• And while we are reviewing my Asia trip, you can watch/listen to the Delphi Hour we did in Tokyo.
• Allen has been playing around with multi-threading.  Give this post a look, as well as the code that he uploaded to CodeCentral.  If you have a multi-core machine, it might be work running the test app to see how it all works.

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