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Picking a new laptop
23 August 08 06:36 PM | Brandon Live!
As I mentioned in the previous post, I’m planning to buy a new laptop very soon. The timing seems to be about right, with a bunch of new machines become available in the next week or two. Unfortunately, I’m having a really hard time deciding what I want...
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Microsoft Intern Video 2008 - The Spy
08 August 08 05:52 PM | Brandon Live!
In traditional Microsoft fashion, this year’s interns have put together a video about Microsoft… in this case, telling the story of a spy trying to find all our Win7 secrets Somebody posted the video to YouTube, which you can find here. Random...
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Who is a bigger threat to the US? Islam or Creationists?
30 June 08 04:24 AM | Brandon Live!
Earlier this evening I discovered a wonderful series of videos on YouTube (which I am convinced more than ever is a Google plot to make sure I stay up all night watching videos and don’t get any work done in the morning). It’s a series called...
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The URL is dead, long live the URL
23 May 08 12:58 AM | Brandon Live!
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting story (if interesting means, “haven’t I read this before?”) titled “The URL is Dead, Long Live Search.“ As you might guess, it’s about search boxes basically replacing the address bar...
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Rush Limbaugh berates 10th grader’s school essay
16 May 08 12:27 AM | Brandon Live!
The best story I’ve heard this week by far was told today over lunch. Apparently, a co-worker of mine named George listens to the Rush Limbaugh show in his car, and yesterday heard him discussing Barak Obama’s comments about similarities between...
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A glimpse of the future
07 April 08 01:12 PM | Brandon Live!
Today I saw, for the first time, a software release where an update had to be released to address 32-bit compatibility issues, as the initial release was apparently only tested on 64-bit machines. Neat.  Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist...
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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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Gooooo Obama!
04 January 08 02:08 AM | Brandon Live!
I’ve been supporting this guy for a while, and while both Edwards and Clinton have their appeal, I am incredibly pleased to see him win Iowa’s primary. Watching him speak, as in that video, and I can’t help but feel that he’s every...
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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...
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FIOS ordered!
30 November 07 03:00 AM | Brandon Live!
They’re supposed to be sending someone over to install Verizon FIOS service at my place next Wednesday. 15mbps up, 15mbps down. Just the way the internet was meant to be. And hopefully, without the Torrent-stifling connection-dropping level of service...
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