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Going around again...
I started Telligent as a PM, then went into product, then moved to the Microsoft-specific "sites" team where I wrote and maintained the http://silverlight.net site. But that ended last week as the sites team transitioned onto other projects Read More...
Caricatures
As I was walking around the local Geranium Festival at the weekend (they completely shut down the center of our sleepy little town for a bunch of vendors to set up stalls) I came across a guy doing caricatures . We've had them done for the kids a Read More...
Dealing with Mrs Jobsworth
From wikipedia : A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". The term comes from the phrase "I can't Read More...
Today's not the day to read blogs
Don't believe anything you read today. I know better, but I still forgot the date and believed Daniel had sold his company . His post was very well done, but I still think my old April Fool's Joke was better. Back in 2005 it was more believable Read More...
What he said
Rick Strahl: What can you keep in your Head? +1 Read More...
What's for dinner?
LOL, the best use yet for our awesome shared family calendar(s): the answer to the age-old question.. "What's for dinner, Mom?" Tara created a new shared calendar called Menu and added "all-day" appointments (just because they Read More...
The grass is not greener
I came across some great quotes this evening from a business forum I recently joined..think about them. When you complain.. " 80% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them " Another.. " People Read More...
Oh, I forgot synching..
To copy your personal calendar to google, use their new synch tool ... ..and then uninstall it. It crashed my wife's Outlook 2003 almost every hour when it synched up, and I'm still finding strange entries in my Deleted Items folder in Outlook Read More...
Living in Gworld
Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's Read More...
More Gmail
My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month Read More...
It's not 1998 anymore Ma
Yeah, working as a FTE does change your perspective. Way, way back I loved reading about and playing with SEO techniques - all new and sneaky. Just this month I've started looking around again at what's going on and frankly I'm stunned. All Read More...
Never a good day when you find out you're dead
It's the last day before the Christmas break, and an old colleague sent me a invite to linkup on spock.com - looks like another Plaxo knockoff at first glance. Having never visited this site before I thought I'd search for myself. This is what Read More...
The Blockbuster Netflix war continues
I've posted about the ups and downs of Blockbuster before. This morning Mike points us to the latest pundit who says that Blockbuster will die within 2 years . I can't refute his findings, and if true it's pretty sad. Everyone needs competition, Read More...
Google Desktop
I've gone full circle. I uninstalled Google Desktop Search back in August 2006 and installed the Windows version. Yesterday, I reversed that decision. I thought that GDS' problem with archived email was bad; what a joke that was. WDS was far, Read More...
I'm begging, not SMS spam too
Having a teenage daughter means that you text - or you don't talk to her. Maisy (and I suspect every teenage texter) suffers from acute acronymism, and brevity is an understatement. When she had a sleepover the other weekend these are the texts I Read More...
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