February 2008 - Posts

WorldWide Telescope is mind-bendingly cool
29 February 08 02:46 AM | Brandon Live!
If you haven’t heard about it yet, or seen the TED presentation, do yourself a favor and go watch the video.  There’s a high-ish resolution MP4 you can download here. I absolutely cannot wait until this is released to the public. Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Yahoo’s Open Search service that isn’t OpenSearch
26 February 08 03:22 PM | Brandon Live!
Seriously Yahoo, what were you thinking? Today Yahoo announced their “Open Search Platform” - saying that it will “allow third parties to enhance the Yahoo Search experience.” You might assume that this means they’re doing something cool with OpenSearch - the set of open standards once established by A9 and later embraced by IE / FireFox to [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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A great Obama endorsement
25 February 08 03:00 AM | Brandon Live!
The media makes a big deal about endorsements like that from Ted Kennedy.  But I pay much more attention to one like this one given recently by a favorite web comic of mine, XKCD. The author, Randall, outlines some of the most important reasons I support Obama.  And rather than copy what he wrote, I’ll just [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Checking out Whistler, Longhorn, and Blackcomb
24 February 08 01:56 AM | Brandon Live!
A couple weekends ago some friends and I took a trip up to Whistler in Canada for a few days of winter fun.  It was my first time up there and I finally see why it has such a great reputation. The skiing on both the Whistler and Blackcomb was fantastic, and the weather was decent [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Macs at Microsoft? Why not!
08 February 08 03:17 AM | Brandon Live!
David Morgenstern over the Apple blog on ZDNet wrote yesterday and said: Like the Japanese car in the Dearborn auto plant parking lot, Macs and iPhones must create problems for switchers working at Apple competitors as well as companies with a PC-or-die IT policy. He then goes on to link to this very blog! However, Microsoft appears to [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Google starts their FUD campaign over Yahoo bid
03 February 08 03:47 PM | Brandon Live!
Well that didn’t take long. Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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