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Nice little feature in IE8
I saw a demo internally today of a new feature in Live Search that I liked. Apparently you can now start searching in IE8’s search bar and you might get an “instant answer” as a suggestion immediately. It’ll even do things like arithmetic 🙂 BTW… in case you didn’t know, the “search suggestion” feature…
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Beautiful British Columbia
Two weeks ago, on the way back from skiing with Jim and his wife, we encountered this amazing landscape. A cloud at sea level and blue sky. Absolutely gorgeous. My photos don’t really do it justice.
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Lazy morning/afternoon and book writing
It’s been a lazy day so far. It’s really sunny and wonderful outside. I got the chance to relax, have coffee with Santosh, roam between coffee places, late lunch at the Hilltop, and also work on that Web-related book that Jim, Ian, and I are writing. Great! Here’s a link to a nice short film,…
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2TB disk for $300!
This is just “WOW”!!! Western Digital just released a new 2TB disk. Time to upgrade my home storage solution 🙂 As always, James is keeping track and analyzing storage-related costs.
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Discovering new music
On Thursday I was at Big Daddy‘s for Fractal‘s visit to the Pacific North-West. Netflix‘s Adrian Cockcroft has been a “roadie” since their beginning and listed under “guilt by association” on the band’s site* :-). He made the trip with them so it was nice to catch up with him. To my surprise, eBay‘s Paul…
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Great Coldplay video
Yes, I am a big fun! 🙂 Thanks to Nuno for forwarding.
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Famulus hits the road
Alex Wade and I are going to be in the UK in February to talk and showcase Famulus. We are going to have the new bits with us for developers to play with and new features and samples to talk about. Here’s the announcement. MSR Research Output Repository Platform @ Dev8D Come participate in the…
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Skiing with Jim
It’s been a wonderful weekend so far. The weather has been amazing: sunshine and blue sky. The snow was not fantastic, though, but we can’t have everything. It’s been absolutely fantastic seeing Jim and his wife again. I miss it how we tease each other and all the geeky discussions 🙂 Here are some photos…
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2 wives, 87 children?
This is just crazy. Over the weekend and during a conversation with my skiing baddies Simran and Theoni, Simran mentioned the story of a woman who had 69 children!!! We couldn’t believe it so he just sent us the reference. Apparently it’s a story from the 1800’s reported by multiple sources. It’s not 100% certain…
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Windows 7
I am seriously impressed. A huge improvement, in terms of speed and responsiveness from Vista. I’ve been using the M3 build of Windows 7 for some time now but the Beta 1 is awesome. I love the “boot from a VHD” feature. It’s going to be available for everyone on Friday. Give it a spin.