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Since moving to the Seattle area I've encountered many new different sorts of people (more on that another day)... unfortunately I've also seem to have found a few… seemingly insane people, the most recent case involved a person who kept insisting that I stop IMing them... even when it was she who was IMIng me repeatedly. Yes... I could ...

Even before joining the Windows Home Server team I could just never have enough hard drive space and was always thrilled as new and bigger drives came out and prices across the board eventually came down due to competition. This morning I got an email from Fry’s with their weekly specials and the one that caught my eye... an internal 2.0 TB HD ...

Given the recent news of the kidnapping of Captain Phillips at the hands of Somali pirates and his eventual freeing by the US Navy and Navy Seals, there has been much talk about what can be done to prevent such kidnappings and attacks in future... things ranging from attacking the base camps of these pirates all the way up to unleashing a mass ...

Recently I was forwarded an email about “Earth Hour”, a concept where well... to quote them: This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.   For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light ...

As is the custom… this morning I put 1 pound of M&M’s outside of my door to celebrate my 1 year anniversary with Microsoft: It’s been one heck of a year and here’s to many more, and more versions and updates to Windows Home Server. Btw… have you downloaded Power Pack 2 yet? As nifty as this tradition is (sadly not all honor it, tisk ...

Taxation in this the United States has historically had two purposes... revenue generation and social engineering. Any government that has the authority to compel you to give up part of your life (what is wealth but a manifestation of the time of ones life given up via physical or intellectual labor?) to it through taxation has a responsibility ...

When it comes to the environment, there was a time that we were told that the world was going to end due to global cooling, then it was acid rain, later it was a giant hole in the ozone layer, followed by global warming and eventually global climate change (really just global warming renamed in the hopes no one would notice). The Wall Street ...

For most waking up on a Friday, they wake up happy that the week is nearly over and start planning for the weekend… yesterday I didn’t have that joy when around 4:30 am I awoke to the sound of the UPS in my second bedroom beeping and the loud talking and walking of individuals outside, wondering what time it was I looked over to my alarm clock to ...

By now we’ve all seen the new Microsoft marketing campaign known as “I’m a PC” (aka Life Without Walls)... and as part of that shirts and other wares can be found quite easily, I am not only an owner of one, but an wearer of it as well: Back in October I had the pleasure of attending PDC 2008 in LA and had a great time talking to existing ...

Screen protectors are nothing new. They exist for PDAs, mp3 players and even computers. Most exist to protect the screen from scratches, others from prying eyes, I want one that protects it from the fingers of other people. Call me crazy, but little bothers me more than to see the finger printed smudge of someone who has touched my monitor, and ...