Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

About 9 months ago I stopped using Windows Live Mail completely.  I switched to gmail.  I actually liked WLM a lot better at the time.  Having been a lifetime outlook/OWA user the swanky new interface they had rolled out was comfortable and worked great. Kudos to their development team.  Why did I switch? I switched [...]

So the interwebs suggest that Microsoft is looking to buy Digg. I hope, for the sake of my stock that they are just trying to drive up the price for Google. A cheaper solution would be to buy/hire the developers of Kigg & DotNetKicks & the guy that writes Feedhead for Facebook and let them [...]

This has to crack you up.  Microsoft to Yahoo: come back, this isn’t over! – Engadget

01/10/2008

I was hesitant to try and squeeze my collection down into an 8GB "best of" set of music, but the advantages are totally worth it. The load time switching multiple tracks in a random playlist seems faster here than on the hard drive based models. The battery lasts MUCH longer than my 30 GB model.  [...]

12/22/2007

No, not that switch yet, although seeing ScottW get a 5.1 on the Vista experience score on his Macbook Pro sure makes it tempting. I’ve finally given up on IE 7 as a default web browser in Vista. For some reason it crashes constantly on me. At first I thought it was the Web Developer [...]

  I have a shared items feed from google reader, but I've been struggling with how to share that content more broadly through my main blog feed.  I didn't like mirroring my shared items since it felt like content stealing and I share more than I write, but at the other extreme I don't generally [...]

So it's been almost 2 weeks since I left Microsoft for Telligent, but because of vacation I've only worked 6 days.  Here are some random thoughts I've been meaning to blog.  At first the "Company All" e-mails on random topics like surface computing seemed odd, then I remembered that those mails doesn't go to 60k employees.  [...]