April 2008
10 posts
Microsoft's .Mesh
Go ahead and read about Microsoft’s Live Mesh Inititiative (http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1355) and tell me how it’ substantially different than .Mac which has been around since 2002.
I don’t want to rain on their parade or or anything and it does seem to have a modern spin on the concept - but it looks like .Mac, basically.
Amazon MP3 Mini-Review
I was a big fan of the Amazon MP3 store when it launched. It has a great selection. It works on any device. There is no DRM. The tracks are high quality. It finally provides competition to iTunes.
So I started talking about it, recommending it to friends and family and bought a few tracks here and there, mostly dropping iTunes Music Store purchases.
Between buying actual CD’s from...
Spring Cleaning
Things I threw away today:
MS-DOS 6.22
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Borland C++ 4.5
Borland C++ 5.0
5, Kings Quest 2
6, Kings Quest 3
Kings Quest 4
Kings Quest 5
Space Quest 2
WordPerfect 5.1
3 Computer Cases
2 Motherboards
Misc Peripherals
Misc Cables
Something I held on to (I don’t know why):
Rest in Peace, Charlton Heston
Noted gun nut, Charlton Heston died last week. What I did not realize about him was that he was active in the Civil Rights movement in the sixties, demonstrating along side his colleagues, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.
So, I’ll choose to remember him in this role. In the grand scheme, I think the world is truly a better place having him in it.
(via:...
“By my reckoning, at the end of my second class year, I had marched enough extra...”
– Yeah - well - I’m not going to vote for the guy - but he is actually more favorable to me and not less because he’s not made of plastic.
John McCain - “Service to America” U.S. Naval Academy
This is interesting. McCain is basically doing a personal history tour—and there seems to be...
2008 Chicagoland Bike Rides
I have no other place to store this, so I’ll store it here:
http://www.elmhurstbicycling.org/rides/currentRide.aspx
http://chicagocyclingclub.org/rides/index.asp
http://www.lepirtle.com/lib/rides/events.cfm
