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Friday, November 13, 2009 1:29 AM

Note to future parents: Plan your automobile purchases carefully

I’m sure all of you have teenagers that are practically perfect. Straight A’s and they have never been in any trouble. Even if that were true, we are all faced with one issue that is exceedingly hard to forecast. The automobile inventory and lifespan.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:33 PM

It’s going to be a fun night

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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2:42 PM

Netflix Culture – should this be your Culture?

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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:43 AM

How important is marketing?

I wonder if the Palm Pre electrical engineers and software developers ever see comments like the one in the article at http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/04/palms-ad-agency-loves-that-youre-creeped-out-by-new-tv-spots/ where Gary Koepke is quoted as saying,
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:11 AM

Optical Illusions Can Mess With Your Mind

Like many of the type A folks I work with, I rarely make mistakes.  But I made an interesting one this week and by golly it wasn’t my fault.  Or was it? Anyone who is a frequent writer knows it’s beneficial to have someone spot check your work
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:08 AM

Star Wars USB drives a go – but where is Blu-ray ???

Anyone else other than me think it sucks that we can buy all sorts of Star Wars approved apparel, but when it comes to buying the widescreen Blu-ray versions of the movies they are nowhere to be found?  What is it with George Lucas and the owners
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:14 AM

Faith in Mankind Restored – For Now

Loyal blog readers know I haven’t been exactly kind to Dell over the years. The ridicule has been focused primarily on the lame GPU in my Latitude D820. I’m over that now. The machine is three years old so the rant can be put to rest. It’s also no surprise
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:50 AM

Blu-Ray Gets Manage Copy – wake me up when the nightmare is over

You may have noticed, I didn’t blog last week due to a heavy travel schedule and spending some quality time with the folks in Bellevue.  But I’m digging out right now and a story on Engadget caught my eye.  “ Blu-ray gets Managed Copy next year,
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Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:12 PM

How would you like to tell Snake Doctor “The Unit” is cancelled?

Not me. Thanks to Matt Hester for bringing this to my attention and ruining my weekend.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:05 PM

The Death of Twitter and Short URLs ???

The first time I saw twitter and the little URL converters that shorten big long URLs into tiny undecipherable URL thingies, I just knew this was a technology looking for a problem. I was right. Sure enough, the bad guys have already started using Twitter
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:59 AM

Here Comes the Hammer

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Saturday, April 11, 2009 11:44 AM

There’s a meter on your ISP connection

What if your cable, DSL, or fiber optic internet provider decided to create some data tiers and set some arbitrary caps? Well, be sure and check out the latest news on the subject. How would this affect you? I know in my case, there could be a dramatic
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Monday, January 05, 2009 3:02 PM

Another yearend deadline you might have missed

I would imagine some of you attended Microsoft events last year.  At some of those events we handed out or raffled off NFR copies of Windows Vista Ultimate SP1. Here’s a pretty picture of the kit I grabbed from one of those events. Many of you ran
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Monday, December 22, 2008 10:54 AM

Your USA tax dollars are hard at work

I rarely wade into political or religious territory on this blog, but I think it's time to speak up some on a subject that is bugging me.  Like most of you, I work pretty hard for my money so I would prefer that my tax dollars are used for things
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:01 AM

MVP Screencast Contest Status and Results

As you might recall, a little over two months ago Matt Hester and I announced a screencast contest. Matt has the official contest announcement and official rules . We limited the contest to the Microsoft MVP community for a couple of reasons. We wanted
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