December 2007 - Posts

FIOS is the best thing ever.
12 December 07 03:41 AM | Brandon Live!
In case you were wondering. It takes 10-15 seconds for a (standard def) video from Xbox Live to be ready to play. I frequently download files at about 2 MB/sec from good servers. Orb is amazing with 15mbps upload Same goes for Remote Desktop Bit Torrents aren’t choked by stupid Comcrap throttling software My connection doesn’t drop momentarily every few minutes [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Anita Rowland passes away, rough week for the blogosphere
11 December 07 03:46 AM | Brandon Live!
I just received an e-mail from Karen Anderson, the assistant organizer for the Seattle Weblogger Meetups, delivering the news that Anita Rowland (who organized those meet-ups) died of cancer today. She is the second blogger I remember from geek dinners at Crossroads Mall to pass away in less than a week.  Robert Scoble even linked to [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Rest In Peace, Marc Orchant
10 December 07 01:04 AM | Brandon Live!
It was with great shock and sadness this evening that I read of Marc Orchant’s death.  I didn’t know Marc well, or even that he was being hospitalized because of a heart attack.  I first met him at the “MSN Search Champs V2” event back in 2005.  Over those few days he made a great [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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64-bit iTunes on the way?
08 December 07 06:36 PM | Brandon Live!
Judging by this new error message in iTunes 7.5 (which I didn’t even notice had changed the first dozen times I clicked OK to it), it seems like a 64-bit version of iTunes is on the way.  Sadly I can’t do as the message says as the 64-bit installer is nowhere to be found on [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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