September 2008 - Posts

Countdown to PDC
30 September 08 12:25 PM | Brandon Live!
PDC is only 26 days away!  While I don’t have a session of my own as I’d originally hoped, I will indeed be there.  The session representing my team’s platform work is already up on the PDC agenda.  You can find it by narrowing down to the sessions titled “Windows 7.” Windows 7: New APIs to [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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What is a “leftist?” Am I one?
27 September 08 06:41 PM | Brandon Live!
I support Barak Obama for president.  Does that make me a “leftist?”  It seems that these days this is the only qualification necessary to earn that label.  It’s a label that gets tossed around as a derogatory and all-encompassing term but I can’t for the life of me figure out why.  Is anyone who supports [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Political posts
27 September 08 06:12 PM | Brandon Live!
You may have noticed a “surge” if you will of politically-oriented posts on this blog.  I do apologize to those who feel I am polluting their newsreader’s technology folder, but ask that you understand this blog as being about my life and things that seem interesting to me.  I have done my best to categorize [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Back from Italy
27 September 08 05:59 PM | Brandon Live!
I realize I didn’t actually inform you, my readers, that I was going to be away for the last couple weeks.  Whoops =) I spent the 11th through the 23rd in Europe, mostly in Italy, for my good friend Paolo’s wedding.  He’s from the beautiful city of Trieste, and decided with his bride Roxy to hold [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Campaigning from the gutter
10 September 08 05:10 PM | Brandon Live!
McCain’s people must be getting really desperate.  The American people are smarter than this.  You can’t lie about what somebody said in the age of the internet where transcripts and video recordings are readily available.  And please… you don’t get points for the irony in attacking Obama for “smearing” Governor Palin using completely and undeniably [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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I’m with Scoble, these start-up web sites suck
07 September 08 04:36 PM | Brandon Live!
If you’re launching a start-up at Demo or TC50, you need to do better than any of these. If your home page links to a PDF “info sheet” you fail. Now, some of these suck for the sole reason that the start-up itself seems to be a pointless idea.  Some combine terrible company and product names with [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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McCain’s Folly: Keeping up with the Palin debacle
03 September 08 02:28 AM | Brandon Live!
I’m trying very hard to keep up with all the news, but it seems to be endless.  Let’s see what we have so far. Governor Sarah Palin… 1) Was a member of (and still supports) the Alaska Independence Party, which believes that Alaska’s statehood is “illegal” and its admission the United States was made possible [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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