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Category Archives: Microsoft

MS-DOS Rap

September 12, 2007 – 4:58 pm

Jay Garmon just blogged this. What do you think?

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And then there were eight

July 3, 2007 – 1:22 am

25 years of media mergers, from GE-NBC to Google-YouTube.
This image shows how only a few big corporations control the media.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, Free Press

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168 hours without Internet

May 30, 2007 – 11:46 pm

That’s right, one week. I used to say that I couldn’t last 24 hours, but when you drive 2,700 miles across the country, you are bound to spend some time offline.
In that time span, you can miss a lot of stuff.
For instance, Facebook just got a lot crazier. You can use their open API [...]

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Friendly Windows 95 Promotional Video

April 29, 2007 – 1:35 pm

Staring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry… pretty corny, but funny. It’s interesting how quickly times have changed. Ten years ago, people weren’t laughing when they watched this:

This is only part one of the movie. Here is 2, 3, and 4:

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DoubleClick to Google

April 13, 2007 – 5:22 pm

The search giant willl shell out $3.1 billion in cash for the Internet’s largest advertising group DoubleClick, according to a press release today.

“It has been our vision to make Internet advertising better–less intrusive, more effective and more useful,” said Sergey Brin, one of Google’s co-founders.
According to CNET, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL were also in talks [...]

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Are We Ready for Vista?

January 30, 2007 – 11:51 pm

Ninjawords defines a vista as “a distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening; a site offering such a view”.

This operating system certainly looks beautiful. The Microsoft engineers have put a lot into the usability of Vista, and I’m sure that the visual appearance and feel of it will “wow” most novices, but [...]

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