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What does a guy do when he’s going to take a break from some work for the evening? Sit down, watch a bit of TV and come up with conspiracy theories of course! They are all the rage right now aren’t they? So I was going through tonight’s episode of Hannity & Colmes in preparation for the Sarah Palin speech later this evening and when ...

My favorite Microsoft product (Windows Home Server) is made successful not only through great software, but also through the availability of inexpensive massive hard drives (and plenty of them) and last month when Seagate announced their upcoming 1.5 terabyte disk... there were quite a few smiles to be seen as it was another sign of the ...

After a (sarcastic) discussion last week about how soon everyone would be work for me one way or another I came to realize that I've come to learn much at Microsoft, and in that time have seen gaps that I believe only I can properly fill and as a result I think it is time to lead... not just a small group of developers, a team or even a ...

...or "Two century club" ...or "longest 8 lbs ever!" My long running weight loss campaign has hit another milestone today with the scale telling me I'd reached 215 lbs, 200.2 lbs down from where I'd started back in May of 2006. Believe it or not... I don't mind it taking ~2 years to reach this milestone. I mind ...

...or "Two century club" ...or "longest 8 lbs ever!" My long running weight loss campaign has hit another milestone today with the scale telling me I'd reached 215 lbs, 200.2 lbs down from where I'd started back in May of 2006. Believe it or not... I don't mind it taking ~2 years to reach this milestone. I mind ...

Those who know me know I haven't been overly thrilled with the Seattle area and what I've seen of Washington in general as it's just too big/crowded/busy of a place. The news last week of the Washington Governor being refused entry to a bar because she didn't have an id on her I had to have faith... yesterday though I saw/heard ...

The laptop I use today is a rather slow Gateway M275 tablet device which is really only useful to me as a remote desktop client to the faster PC in my second bedroom and when I got an email this evening advertising a great deal on a laptop I was interested... only to click to the page and find: And after clicking on Special Price we see that ...

Grrr. Yesterday my Xbox 360 started to have some issues with 3d rendering (2d and overlays were still fine) when playing Call of Duty 4. This issue also manifested itself when testing with Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and Halo 3 and quickly manifests itself even after a restart of the console. Today during some additional troubleshooting I removed the ...

Since starting at Microsoft I have found myself spending more time on email than ever before... so much so that I now find myself wanting a way to check my work email anytime/anywhere... the perfect job for a smartphone... so the hunt has been on and thus far I've encountered at least one company that just doesn't want to keep me as a ...

Like many I wish our politicians could just get along and when they fly off the handle I too often times just shrug and wish I could vote them out... last night though I heard something that got my blood boiling and that couldn't be ignored. Last night when driving home I heard a clip from C-SPAN from that day when Congressman Bill Delahunt ...