October 2008 - Posts

Heading home from PDC
30 October 08 08:18 PM | Brandon Live!
It’s been a whirlwind of a trip here in LA.  When I arrived I thought I’d be blogging, posting photos, and keeping in touch with the outside world the whole time.  Well, that didn’t quite work out.  There was always so much going on and so much to do, that the little downtime I had [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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It begins!
27 October 08 01:57 PM | Brandon Live!
Just got through with the first PDC keynote a short while ago.  Since then I played with a Surface computer and met Larry Osterman.  At the Surface machine I was given a little card to take around to all the Surface machines in the convention center for a Scavenger Hunt game.  Basically you set the card [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Off to Los Angeles
25 October 08 12:32 PM | Brandon Live!
In about an hour I’ll board my flight to LA, which will be my first on Virgin America airlines.  I’m heading down a day or two early to visit my younger sister and enjoy a bit of warm sun before the conference kicks off on Monday.  From what I hear, there should be some pretty [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Desktop Search on the Win7 Engineering blog
23 October 08 05:18 PM | Brandon Live!
About a week ago we posted an entry to the Windows 7 Engineering Team Blog about Windows Desktop Search, describing the motivation behind indexing files and what investments we’re making in that area of the system.  It’s a good read so check it out if you haven’t already. This afternoon we made a follow-up post addressing [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wall Street Journal butchers net neutrality issue
20 October 08 05:09 PM | Brandon Live!
I was just reading this article from the Wall Street Journal and was struck by how it butchered an issue very important to everybody who uses the internet.  Mind you, this isn’t a WSJ “blog” post, this is the full-on deal apparently penned by Monica Langley and Jessica E. Vascellaro.  Here’s where it started to go wrong: Congress is [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Indexer Status gadget updated
08 October 08 10:29 PM | Brandon Live!
I updated my Windows Search indexer gadget with a couple of fixes.  If you run the gadget, you may want to update in order to fix issues with the play and fast-forward (“index now”) buttons not properly reflecting the state of the indexer back-off feature after clicking one of them. Also, if you like the gadget, [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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