My Thoughts on the Wind...
By now many people have seen the Windows 8 preview video and I’ve read several comments about it on Facebook, Twitter, and many other sites. I watched the video too. And I was impressed to see the different type of thinking that was happening up in Redmond – right up until the...
Comments on the Scoble ...
Last week Robert Scoble wrote a blog entry about MySpace’s “death spiral”. He said that he spoke with people involved, which he also referred to as “workers inside MySpace”. According to the article it all comes down to two things. Microsoft technologies and...
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Recently I had the great fortune of attending a Stephen K. Hayes training seminar in New Hampshire, hosted by my friends (and hugely gifted martial artists) at Shinobi Martial Arts Dennis Fuutoshi Mahoney, Theresa Murphy and Darryl Brazee. If you live in the Plaistow New Hampshire area...
This is What I’m ...
The Gu himself, Scott Guthrie of Microsoft, wrote a blog entry yesterday about some power productivity features that people can get with a new VS 2010 update. It only took me a few seconds to find two classic examples that clearly illustrate one of the things that frustrates me about...
Microsoft Tries to Chan...
In a YouTube video posted by “WindowsPhone”, Microsoft claims that the mobile phone industry has hit a wall, and that each new smartphone that is released is only slightly better than the one before it. While this is being said, they show tons of smartphones including the...
My Mom is On Board...
What would life be like without a cellular phone? Just consider that for a moment. You can’t make a call whenever you want. You can’t send a text message to anyone, or receive one. You can’t send or receive any email, either. Now consider that this extends in to your...
Potential...
I find it so interesting how so many of my peers in the Microsoft software development arena fail to see the potential of the iPad. Some of the things they have said include: I have notebook computer running my home network. I’m not going to carry my laptop, my phone, AND an...
Lackluster? 'Scuse...
About two hours ago Apple reported their best quarter ever. Part of that was due to the iPhone, and sales of the iPhone were up 100% from the year-ago quarter. How does Edwin Chan describe a double in sales? “Lackluster”. In an article he titled “Apple posts record Mac...
HP's New Slate PC ...
As reported ahead of time by many sources, Steve Ballmer showed a new Windows 7-based tablet PC from HP at CES 2010 this evening. Notice anything? There’s a Windows Task Bar on the bottom of it. There’s no keyboard (although I’m sure you can plug one in somehow if you...