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WTF Microsoft! Morro beta not in Canada but in the US and China? - UPDATED

June 23, 2009

This is just screwed up.
Updated: thanks to some Twitter friends (@RuudHein and @rodtempleton) I was reminded to try my Connect membership page at Microsoft to grab it.
Nice trick guys thanks as that seems to have worked just great. I still think that the restrictions suck the big one.

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And here I thought Live Search was history

June 18, 2009

As most probably know by now Microsoft is running some contest that will let you win $10,000 but you have to be using IE8. That’s fine I guess and I won’t quibble on how they’re running the campaign; but don’t you think someone should have said something about Live Search being replaced by Bing?

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Maybe it’s just me but I found this humorous

June 14, 2009

I realize that I have a strange sense of humor sometimes but when I saw the following screen as I was checking out payment options for various anti-virus companies. The company I was checking out was F-Secure and when I clicked through to see if they took PayPal this was at the top of the [...]

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Happy Birthday GigaOM

June 12, 2009

Three years ago … wow.
I still remember the day that the announcement hit the blogosphere that Om Malik was going out on his own with a brand new blog called GigaOM. In the intervening years the growing network started back those three years ago has always been one to keep an eye, and to [...]

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Well you can’t say that Michael Arrington isn’t honest

June 9, 2009

There can be a lot of things said about Michael Arrington the man behind TechCrunch but blatantly dishonest obviously isn’t one of them. That is, given his reaction to receiving a $1,334,261 check from Pure Digital Technologies is any indication.

Michael lets us all in on just how close he came to being a millionaire (okay [...]

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Putting away the broom and dustpan

June 5, 2009

It’s one thing to successfully move a four year old blog with close to 2,000 post from one domain to a new domain with a whole new identity, but it is another thing to do with without any hitches. For the most part my move from WinExtra to my new home here at Shooting [...]

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Rebranding Update: the Google PageRank

May 27, 2009

The one really big thing that I was worried about as I began planning the rebranding of WinExtra into its new identity, Shooting at Bubbles, was the hit that the blog’s PageRank would take. Prior to the move WinExtra had managed to get to a PageRank of 6 but it had taken the better [...]

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Thanks for nothing Morley Safer

May 23, 2009

I have been a fan of the CBS show 60 minutes for as long as I can remember and the journalists who are a staple of the show. As news breaking as the show can be Morley Safer this week proved that he has no clue as to where the news is being broken [...]

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Quick off the cuff thought

May 20, 2009

With all the problems that the US government has with embarrassing stuff coming to light after they have been selected someone for some high flying government position I have the perfect solution.
Hire Nick Denton and Valleywag as a vetting service. They seem to do a better job than the people who are supposed to do [...]

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The art of learning

May 19, 2009

I have always been a lover of books. Real books. Real pages that you can turn. For me they are the best gateway for learning. As good as the Web might be it still doesn’t equal the knowledge that can be found between the covers of a good book.
These are the newest additions to my [...]

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