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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 5:31 PM

Gigabits and Petabytes

Just saw this over on Microsoft Watch , but this is a fascinating interview with Debra Chrapaty , the Corporate VP in charge of Microsoft’s data center and network expansion.  The scale is absolutely mind-boggling.  Seriously… watch the whole
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Monday, June 23, 2008 4:25 AM

Made My Day

If you haven't seen any of the " Where the Hell is Matt? " videos, do yourself a favor and check them out, especially his new video that came out yesterday. The locations he visits are absolutely epic. http://www.vimeo.com/1211060
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Friday, May 23, 2008 12:18 AM

The Live Orb Button

Not high on the scale of discoverability, but cool nonetheless... If you are on one of the Live websites (such as http://my.live.com or http://home.live.com ) that has a Windows Live orb in the top left of the page, it turns out that the orb is actually
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Monday, May 19, 2008 5:04 AM

Creating a PowerPoint Deck from a Word Outline

Great trick to use when creating a presentation in PowerPoint. If you start out when planning your presentation by just firing up PowerPoint and adding slides, it can be difficult to keep track of the overall flow of the presentation. If only you could
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:58 AM

WorldWide Telescope Released

Wow. Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope must be seen to be believed. Make sure your kiddoes are handy, because they will love this. Experience it here: http://worldwidetelescope.org
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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:57 PM

Combining Smart Art Diagrams in Word 2007

One of the coolest features of Office 2007 is SmartArt . It makes it incredibly easy to create great looking diagrams to show a process, cycle, hierarchy, or relationship. During some business planning recently, however, I had the need to actually COMBINE
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:16 PM

MCP Mentor

Just saw the following on Trika's blog .  GREAT opportunity to share your technical/certification knowledge with others!  Signing up right now... Check this out: MCP mentors is a cool new program some people around here are cooking up, through
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Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:28 PM

Easter Eggs

Just saw this over on Bink.nu . It turns out (and I have verified), that there is a pretty cool easter egg included with the HP EX470/EX475 MediaSmart Home Servers . The HP servers have a series of LEDs on the front of the unit that turn different colors
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