Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Too much to do
Man have I been away for a while. There is almost too much that has happened since my last post. Let me see if I can hit the highlights: Made a few trips…to Seattle for an Microsoft briefing, to Plano for an internal meeting. Nothing much to report there, but I did start to capture…
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A few more new gadgets
Picked up a couple of new gadgets in the past 2 days. On Saturday my 12 year old Canon LPB-430 laser printer finallt gave up the ghost. It was kind of sad to see it go – I printed my master’s thesis on that printer. I used Word Perfect version 8 running on Windows for…
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Good bye old friend…
We had to say good bye to an old friend today, Gunner. He hadn’t been doing so well for the past 9 months and in the last 2 days took a severe turn for the worse. Looks like he had Leukemia and had also suffered a stroke in the past day or so. He was…
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I love New York…in March
I was in NYC yesterday for the Microsoft launch of their “people ready business” initiative. We got in to JFK around 6 on Wedneday night and then headed straight to dinner at Tabla, a Danny Meyer restaurant. I love his restaurants, especially Union Square Café. Tabla is an Indian inspired restaurant and it was a…
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Happy Birth Day
My kids b-day today…5 and 7…where has the time gone?
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Google Buys Maker Of 3D Modeling Software
InformationWeek | Google Acquisition | Google Buys Maker Of 3D Modeling Software | March 14, 2006 This is wild. I know about and regularly use Google Earth. I’ve even “flown” through the Grand Canyon and San Francisco in it. However I never really equated that with Google being interested in a 3D modeling company. I…
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Origami vs. 770 – telling of the future
I for one did not get too caught up in the hype surrounding the recent announcement of the Origami (or much less original name, the UMPC). I am a regular Tablet PC user and have been somewhat interested in the new small tablet offerings from Motion (the LS800) and the combination Tablet/Pocket PC that is…
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Heading to NYC next week
I’m on my way to New York next week for a big event with Microsoft. Can’t say much, but they will be making some interesting announcements in the business space to make them a little more competitive with the boys up state. Stay tuned…
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Testing a desktop blog writer
I am writing this from a new tool I just installed on my work laptop to be able to post from my blog without logging in to the web interface to wordpress. The tool is w.bloggar. I am trying this out for a few reasons: It will let me blog on items I see in…