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Archive | July, 2005

How to Not Get Fired for Blogging

Chris Pirillo has again cracked me up with a list of 10 guidelines on how to not get fired for blogging (link at the bottom). Number 10 is a gem: 10. Cats. Write about cats. A lot. In his post he mentions an imaginary domain – ihatemyjobandboss.com, and mentions that you shouldn’t host your blog [...]

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Motorola Is Starting to Impress

July 27, 2005

For a long time, I have been totally uninterested in Motorola handsets. They all looked the same, and none had anything that really caught my interest. That is until the Motorola MOTONOW press event on Monday. During the event and the day following, Motorola have finally got my attention. I posted some news and pictures [...]

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Way to Copy, Microsoft

July 25, 2005

So, I just checked out the new Microsoft Virtual Earth, here are my first two thoughts: “This is really slow compared to Google Maps“ “This is such a rip off of Google Maps“ To clarify point one, it is much slower on than the Google equivalent on my iBook in Safari. I would also love [...]

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Windows Vista – Not Very Original

July 24, 2005

You would think that Microsoft would come up with something a little more original for their next version of Windows. Here is a list of technology companies using the Vista name that I can think of: MontaVista Linux Epicor Vista VISTA Tools ViSta (Visual Statistics) Vista WebCT Vista eTrez Vista I am sure there is [...]

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Scoble Misses the Mark, Again….

Sure, MacDailyNews did talk a lot of smack about Mac OS X doing everything Vista is bringing to the table, but unfortunately Scoble totally missed the mark with his reply. I believe MacDailyNews was talking smack about software, all your examples are hardware Scoble – can I see an indication of the relationship here? Sure, [...]

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The A-List Talk Continues

I am really staring to enjoy this little conversation. Kent Newsome posted an excellent response to Randy Charles Morin’s A-list post, which prompted another great post from Richard Querin. I would really recommend reading these posts. One thing really caught my eye in Richard’s post, from the last paragraph: it’s interesting that my family-oriented blog [...]

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Windows Vista Beta Schedule

July 23, 2005

ActiveWin are reporting the Windows Vista beta schedule will be as follows: Beta 1 on August3, 2005 Beta 2 in early 2006 RTM in late 2006 I would defiantly love to be on the beta for this, but short of sending two pounds of chocolate to the test manager, I think I have very little [...]

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Moved to FeedBurner

July 23, 2005

After all the talk about A-List linking and site readership, I got a little curious about who is actually reading this, and as B2Evolution’s feed statistics are not the best in the world, I have decided to move the feed on to FeedBurner. If anyone is currently subscribed to the old feed, I would really [...]

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A-List Linking

July 22, 2005

Randy Charles Morin has a very interesting write up on A-List linking here, but I am much more interested in Richard Querin’s reply. “Why is that?” I hear my (maybe) 4 readers ask? Because he raises a point that is very close to my heart: he (and I) write because of the enjoyment factor! I [...]

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Pirillo Replies to the Vista name

July 22, 2005

Chris Pirillo gives some suggestions on what Microsoft could have called the new version of Windows – hilarious Chris. I especially like this one: Windows Scoble. Read – [Chris Pirillo]

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