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Today I was at BlizzCon. This is a sort of annual convention put on by Blizzard Entertainment and geared toward fans of the Diablo, Starcraft, and World of Warcraft franchises. While I played Diablo 1 and Starcraft 1, I was there for the Warcraft experience...
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Wow….when things go bad, they go really bad. Late last week you may have seen a few tweets from me about a Terastation I have that lost a drive. I have two of the 1.6 Tb models and they have both been running 24x7 for about 6-7 years now. While sitting...
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Hiya Folks…. As you have likely noticed, my online activities have been pretty sparse for quite some time. There are a number of reasons for this. Some are personal while some are business related. Since this is my work blog I will limit my discussions...
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Engadget has a great article on info they picked up on the rumored Zune HD device. We (Microsoft) have also posted an official Zune HD information page . Briefly - 3.3” OLED Multi-touch screen (take that iPhone!) Integrated HD Radio receiver (take...
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Woo HoO! I am at TechEd in Los Angeles talking face-to-face with IT Pros this week. I am working a couple of areas this week – the Thrive booth where we are talking about resources to help IT Pros with Virtualization, Cost Savings, Certification and lot...
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Why? For one, I get to head downtown and hop on a ferry to go over to Poulsbo, WA for a User Group meeting this evening. I wish I had time to make the drive around the sound because I have not driven over into the peninsula area of WA yet...
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Subtitled – A room with a view…. I have been waiting to do this post ALL YEAR! This morning I woke up and started my normal routine – make myself some coffee, start making breakfast (toast, 1 fried egg, cottage cheese), turn on my Sirius satellite radio...
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About two weeks ago I made an impulse buy of a netbook PC. Consider it my contribution to stimulating the economy. I was at Fry’s pricing some hardware and getting ideas for a new TV for a Media room I am working on when I saw all the tiny netbooks and...
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Whew! What a week it has been! Spent time at the Windows/Exchange conferences last week and then another 4 days on vacation with my kids. Had a blast doing both and have a few stories to share once I get caught up with all of my admin...
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There has been some discussion recently on some DL's here at Microsoft about sites that re-post blog posts without permission. I will call it what it is which is the theft of copyrighted materials for the purpose of monetary gain. I don't like...
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if you would like to grab the slides from the Technet presentation, you can get that at the Technet Event registration site . You are obviously here at my blog so now you also have my contact information. feel free to contact me if you have any questions...
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There are so many posts out there repeating everything already that I am going to skip linking a bunch of stuff from PDC and link to just the one thing that has me jazzed. I have recently taken an interest in working with Visual Studio and doing some...
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<Imitating a big booming voice> Hoooooowdy Folks! Welcome to the Texas State Fair! That would be the voice of Big Tex - the iconic simple of the Texas State fair. You can hear Big Tex at BigTex.com , the official site for the State Fair of Texas...
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My corporate mailbox has been homed to a "dogfood" server for many, many months now. Even though it is technically on a test server, I have had very few issues to complain about. This morning I received some IM's from co-workers that they...
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...you still have to check this out . I could care less about the game they are showing, it is the marketing behind it. Cheers!...( read more ) Share this post: Read More...
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Setup - My daughters live in Texas with their mother. They have a Wii. I am visiting my daughters. Tonight, my youngest daughter, Samantha (9), asked me to play a video game with her. She fires up Guitar Hero 3 (awesome!) on her Wii. I watched her put...
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I just sat down at my laptop and realized I don't have my external mouse plugged in. As I am going for it, it dawns on me that I can't remember the last time I used the external mouse with my laptop. I think it was for my event in Berkeley, CA...
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I drove back frantically from the karaoke bar trying to make it before my midnight post time. It would have been a lame post had I made it and this one won't be any better. I did spend a bit of time on Twitter tonight. I recently started following...
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This article is an interesting read . I really appreciate that these guys don't hide under rocks and are accessible. I would really enjoy seeing them speak at a conference. Cheers!...( read more ) Share this post: Read More...
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This afternoon I started typing up a post with links to a bunch of interesting tech stuff. Then I ran across this post by Scoble and realized he had already done all the heavy lifting. I scrapped my post and will share a few other tidbits.... WaMu sold...
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Three days ago I called my ISP to complain about very, very, very slow web page load times. While on the phone with the tech I hit a couple of speed test sites and saw that my overall download speed was what I expected - 8-10,000kbps. I told him I would...
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Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch posted about the new commercials we are showing. I like them because they show the many different kinds of PC users that are out there. It really only scratches the surface though. Think about it.....when you are walking...
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subtitled.......where to go if you want to be absolutely guaranteed NOT to see the Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld commercials Millions of people have watched them on TV. Anyone with an Internet connection can go to the Microsoft Press Pass site and not only...
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