Microsoft is a common target for rants, dislikes, and disdain. And the negative views and opinions are frequently justified. But Microsoft can also be surprising, and I had that experience this week. I have only ever contacted Microsoft Support twice, both in regards to my home network. The first...
This morning I flew from San Francisco to Detroit, and did something that I have not done in years. I made it through security in minutes, literally. From the time I walked into the airport terminal until the time I was past security was less than 3 minutes! How? A few months ago I signed up as a...
10 years ago today I joined Allaire Corporation as an employee. I had been working with Allaire on and off for a couple of years prior to that date, but on February 2nd, 1998 I joined the company as their first Product Evangelist. And now, 10 years, 2 acquisitions, hundreds of thousands of miles, a...
Fellow evangelist Duane Nickull has posted the slides from his Web 2.0 Design Patterns, Models and Analysis presentation: | View | Upload your own
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I became a U.S. citizen in 2000, just in time to vote in that year's Presidential Election. I have voted at every opportunity since, in elections big and small. But, to date, I have voted in person on Election Day just once (and that was for a local citywide ordinance vote). Inevitably, I am on the...
A lawsuit has been filed by Stacie Somers, a resident of San Diego County, California, who bought a 30GB iPod from Target, and who is apparently upset that she has to buy music from iTunes, an alleged monopoly. The complaint is that iPods won't play audio files protected by Microsoft DRM, and that...
The FTC requires that copies of your credit report (from all three major national credit reporting companies) be made available free of charge annually, and free must really mean free! Checking your credit report is important, if for no other reason than to make sure that there are no accounts or...
XNA Game Studio is a development environment for creating games for Windows and XBox 360. And the XNA team has announced that XNA Game Studio 2 has been released and is ready for download. Lots of new samples and tutorials too. Cool stuff!
Microsoft Virtual PC uses virtual machine hard drive images as disks. These VHD files are typically dynamic in size, they grow as necessary. And I had one grow on me yesterday to over 40GB in size! Microsoft provides a Virtual Disk Wizard which can be used to compact virtual disks (when the virtual...