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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:00 PM

WorldWide Telescope – screencast now available

Early this morning I downloaded the new WorldWide Telescope application from Microsoft Research. After exploring the galaxies, I decided this would be a cool screencast to demo the application for those of you that might not otherwise download, install
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:50 PM

My image shack is going down

The service I use for images on my blog is going down tomorrow night.  I'll probably spend some time tomorrow updating some links so it isn't coyote ugly.  But in the event something else interrupts my day that is more important, I thought you
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:24 PM

Class Reunion GPS Mashup

I have often wondered why it is that I live in a popular part of Texas, yet I never see anyone I know from high school or college.  It makes you wonder if we are really like two ships passing in the night.  Sure we see a radar blip on the screen
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:23 PM

Get Ready to Rumble

Hot Wheels is having it’s 40th anniversary and to commemorate, some of the automobile companies has created some fun scale model vehicles.  Here’s a pic of the Honda Racer.  Wired did a great article on the event at http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/04/honda-goes-a-li.html
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:21 AM

I wonder if they'll hook an Xbox 360 to this?

Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision™ Is Dallas Cowboys’ Choice for New Stadium World’s Largest 1080p High-Definition LED Video Displays Will Span 60 Yards WARRENDALE, Pa.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--The Dallas Cowboys, whose ingenuity and reputation
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:50 PM

Does Tax Day define success? You bet it does!

April 15th is an interesting day.  For those of you that are small business owners, you know what I mean.  As you start off building a business, the yearly tax deadline spells out all to well how your business did.  Your CPA is going to
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:36 PM

Blog till you drop?

Wow.  I just read the NY Times article, “ In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop ” by Matt Richtel.  That’s a pretty scary article, and I assure you, blogging won’t be my undoing.  Family genes
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Monday, April 07, 2008 9:14 PM

Things that make you go hmmmm…

That was really weird. The last post I did (now deleted), corrupted my Internet Explorer cache. In fact, the blog post did it to two machines I have. Scary. It was a relatively simple post with a small image, some text, a few hyperlinks, and a Silverlight
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:54 AM

What Happens in Vegas… gets blogged

Come find Keith Combs and Matt Hester at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas on 4/3/2008 as we talk with the folks at the Windows Server 2008 launch event.  We’ll have some fun on camera and give you the opportunity to speak your mind.  This is
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:15 PM

Last blog post – I’m headed to Apple

Remember that Windows Vista SP1 blog post about “I have your back!” ???  Well, apparently nobody had mine so my last day with Microsoft will be April 11, 2008.  I probably won’t post many more blogs posts here.  The empire
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:22 AM

Here’s 7 minutes of your life you’ll never get back

Ever wonder what happens when you hand some cameras to a bunch of Microsoft IT Pro Evangelists?  Scary stuff.  Actually, we’re having a lot of fun with them as we figure out the toolset, microphones, lighting, etc.  In this stellar
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Friday, February 29, 2008 5:03 PM

The First Person Shooter (FPS) gaming vest

I noticed this a couple of weeks ago and wondered if any of you have purchased one.  It's certainly an interesting twist on "force feedback".  Here's an excerpt from the description of the vest and game: "The FPS Vest is an impact-generating
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:56 PM

The Gold Standard of Flying

Early in my career at Microsoft I was traveling 50,000+ miles per year. It was of course in the good ole days when First Class was still almost first class. You know, back when they still had good food, drinks and sundaes. After making America Advantage
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:43 AM

Got your Warthog on order?

Gee, I wonder where the idea for this vehicle came from.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:17 AM

Metallica will rip Bonnaroo 2008 to shreds

Bonnaroo 2008 goes from hill billy to mainstream.  I guess next year they'll have a big corporate sponsor and Amy Winehouse. I don't know why she isn't there this year.  She's a trip.  I'm going to see Little Feat, Vampire Weekend and the
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