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Bill Gates is going part-time
I guess the news that Bill Gates will be transitioning to a part-time job in two years is going to be huge around the world. Hmm… is there an opportunity there? Shall I apply for the job? 🙂 Love him or hate him, this is a big milestone for Microsoft. Let’s see how the world of technology…
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More great Mac adverts
They are excellent 🙂
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“The Evolution of Dance”
Very funny 🙂
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World Cup in HD
That’s the way to watch football!!! My trips for a weekend of windsurfing at the Hood River were cancelled at the very last minute due to luck of wind, so I was able to watch the Paraguay vs England World Cup 2006 game on ABC and in High Definition (boring game but well done to…
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WinFX is now .NET Framework 3
As we were starting to get used to the “WinFX” label, my company has decided to change it 🙂 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow (WF) and Windows CardSpace (WCS) (formerly known as “InfoCard”) are now all part of the .NET framework 3.
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Microsoft relay and security token services
I was not aware of the Microsoft Live relay and security token services. They look very interesting and they are WS-based so theoretically they should be useable through any platform. I am currently having problems accessing them since I am on a post-beta 2 build of Vista and WinFX but will investigate further and report…
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Finally organized my blogs again
I finally got around to moving and organizing the blog feeds I used to read (I haven’t kept in touch with some of the blogs out there for a long time). I will soon publish my blogroll as part of my introduction to what Jim and I call “Overlay Webs”. My feed reader is now…
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FW: “Email To: line etiquette”
I can’t believe there are people who get upset about such things 🙂 This is sooooo funny (by Dennis).
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Summer festivals
I visited the Folklife festival here in Seattle over the weekend and I had a great time. I was really surprised to hear Greek music from “Children of the Revolution” who were not bad (it turns out that their lead singer is a second-generation Greek). It was a great atmosphere with lots to see but,…
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Apparently I am a traitor and not a serious person
My last post about the collision between the Greek and Turkish airplanes (there are reports that the Turkish one might not have been an F16 but an F4 with spying capabilities) got me in trouble with a couple of fellow Greeks. There was a comment about the loooong history of warfare in the region, from…