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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...

Apr 23, 2007

Beryl: Oh, the hypocrisy!

<BeforeYouFlameMe>Yes, I understand that one person does not represent the full Slashdot groupthink</BeforeYouFlameMe> A common battlecry of Slashdotters is ‘you’re wasting my CPU cycles/GPU cycles/RAM/whatever; turn off the eye candy and give me...