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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Picked a new laptop!
24 August 08 06:08 PM | Brandon Live!
So after writing about the new laptop choices I was considering, I decided yesterday afternoon to drive around and look at which laptop models were available at local computer/electronics stores. Best Buy and Circuit City didn’t have anything of interest...
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How my team and I fit into Windows 7
18 August 08 11:25 PM | Brandon Live!
As you probably heard (if you’re reading this blog), Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan recently launched the Windows 7 Engineer Team Blog. This afternoon the Steven made his second post on the blog, discussing the Windows 7 engineering organization...
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OpenSearch spec status
05 August 08 10:21 PM | Brandon Live!
In addition to the aforementioned e-mailing, I also spent a little of the weekend on some personal projects, and did some poking around at the OpenSearch discussion group.  I was curious about the fact that OpenSearch 1.1 has been stuck in “Draft...
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Home from LA
05 August 08 10:15 PM | Brandon Live!
Last week I headed down to LA to spend a long weekend with my sister and my friend Sara, both of whom live there.  I tried to remain disconnected during that time but failed pretty miserably, at least the last couple days.  I even kept up with...
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Windows Search Indexer Status Gadget
09 April 08 11:10 PM | Brandon Live!
I’m pleased to announce that the second tool to join the BrandonTools.com collection is now available!  It’s a new Sidebar Gadget for those who want to see what the indexer is up to and to easily control its behavior. Click here for details...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In Uganda!
26 August 07 08:35 AM | Brandon Live!
I meant to post something here before I left… oops! Anyway, we all made it here safe and sound and so far things are going great. Uganda is beautiful, the people are amazing, and the team I’m with is just great. I was a little nervous about...
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Skipping the continent
04 August 07 09:36 PM | Brandon Live!
Less than three weeks remain until I depart for Uganda! I finally got our team’s official blog set up a couple nights ago, and you should see posts from the whole team popping up very soon. I’ll be making more posts there (and here) about...
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