Tax time’s finally come and gone, and I had a really good year in 2008. Awio’s profit was more than 150% of the year before. To my accountant’s surprise, unlike most of the people in his office that month, my business grew the last two quarters of the year instead of sliding with the economy. [...]
Inspired by this article at Read/Write Web, I decided to make a search engine out of one of my bookmark collections. Discover Semantic searches about 70 sites dealing with the semantic web (aka “web 3.0″). It covers W3 recommendations, specifications, tools, tutorials, and dozens of blogs about semweb. If nothing else, it was interesting to [...]
As did the other 1.2 million early adopters of the Zune. First-Gen Zune Getting All The New Features: This is How You Treat Your Customers Hands On with Zune 2 Microsoft beefs up Zune music and community experience
Can’t say I got much actual work done this weekend. I spent too much of it working on replacing my monitor and trying to build a media center PC to turn the old one into a nice TV.
I’m making the decision now before thinking about it wastes any more of my time. Indecision and anxiety takes a huge mental toll on me — it always has. I prefer to be sure about the future and have as little on my mind as possible. That drives many of the decisions I make, and [...]
I spend more time writing on forums than on this blog, so I’m going to start sharing the more interesting threads I participate in here as well. WebDesignofMaine: Google is number 1. I think Google is going to take over the world. Think about where we are as a civilization, the information age, and who [...]
My team at Microsoft celebrated the end of the fiscal year with a trip to a lodge on Snoqualmie Falls. Three limos arrived at the office to pick us up in the morning for a drive through mountain scenery to the lodge on top of the falls. There, we had a 5-course brunch, followed by [...]
W3Counter.com‘s global stats report was recently featured on Digg.com, the community-driven link sharing site. It isn’t the first time W3Counter’s been voted to the top as Digg’s users are passionate about technology and love to know what everyone else is using — what browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions — the exact stats W3Counter reports on.
Microsoft’s MIX07 conference has stirred up the web development world with demos of Silverlight, a new platform for rich internet applications. Code-named WPF/e (Windows Presentation Foundation/everywhere), Silverlight brings the full power of WPF to browsers and eventually Xbox and mobile devices. On the surface, it’s much like Flash, distributed as a small browser plugin and [...]
I somehow stumbled into a blog debate of Vista DRM today which led me to A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, a lengthy but extremely interesting look into the world of Vista’s content protection measures. The author, security researcher Peter Gutmann, sums up the document as follows: The Vista Content Protection specification could [...]
