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May 16, 2007
Meta

Just a few random updates

I’m revising the look and feel of my blog. Please let me know if anything looks particularly wonky, or if something is egregiously broken. Also, just as a followup from my tale of laptop woe the other day, I wanted to mention that I ordered a sli...

May 12, 2007
Apple

Big Displays, Small Resolutions

Last night, I commented to my girlfriend that I had to have a new Apple laptop immediately due to the increasing decrepitness of my poor, old iBook G4. As if on cue, the laptop’s battery indicator dropped below 70%, and the computer lost power. ...

May 09, 2007

Almost ready to start talking again…

I’ve been head’s down ever since I switched teams in January, which is why my blog postings have grown more and more infrequent. But, I should be ready to start talking again before too long. I’m very excited to tell you all about what I’ve been u...

May 08, 2007
Advertising Apple

Hi, I’m a Mac and obsessed with oversimplification

I saw one of the newest Apple ads last night, which featured the PC trying to figure out which version of Windows Vista he should install. I’ll admit: it was as funny as all the others, which is to say that I and the two other Microsofties I was w...

May 01, 2007

To those of you who think Microsoft is lame

From John Udell regarding our announcements yesterday morning: “Look, I’ve got IronPython using ActiveRecord and LINQ, all inside the Safari browser on my Mac, and I’m debugging it in Visual Studio remotely from my PC.” These kinds of scenarios ar...