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ǝɯ ʍolloɟ

July 14, 2008
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Every few months I make a renewed effort to do the "social networking" thing. I download the latest tools, poke around, post status updates, read other people’s stuff, and basically try to "live it".  I’ve been pretty consistent with using Facebook regularly. Last week I jumped in again and discovered that the tools and the actual "network" are far better than they were last time I tried.  I’m now updating my status on Twitter using …Continue reading →

Hacking the Kindle

June 17, 2008
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When I left my Amazon Kindle on the airplane after I arrived from Taipei last week I realized that someone finding it would have no way of knowing it was mine. Fortunately Northwest Airlines knew I was sitting in seat 5B and let me know it was in the lost & found. I did some poking around and found that it is possible to put your own screen saver pictures on the the Kindle. This …Continue reading →

Kindle update

June 7, 2008
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Wow, has it really been since December that I last blogged? I guess I’ve been busy… Those of you paying attention (not that I actually believe there are very many of you) will probably understand what I’ve been so busy with. It’s probably been the hardest 6 months of my career. But hard work pays off, right? Watch the Windows Home Server Team Blog for some exciting news any day now… Even though I have …Continue reading →

Kindl. Kindel. Kindle.

December 10, 2007
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Back before the invention of the printing press my great, great, great grandfather came to the United States from Bavaria. His name was August Kindl. At Ellis Island the immigration officials added the ‘e’…hence my family’s name. We pronounce it Kindl.  Not Kind-el. Kindl translates to "child" in Bavarian. Those who know me well will find this fitting. Amazon recently launched their Kindle reading device. Pronounced the same way as my last name. I find …Continue reading →

Book Review: Halting State

December 10, 2007
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This was my first Kindle book. That’s right Charlie Kindel bought a Kindle. I have to say it’s getting annoying having everyone saying my name… Here’s my quick review of Halting State by Charles Stross… The big idea is an interesting one: the future world where MMORPG gaming becomes so ubiquitous that the following happens Humans participate everywhere because their mobiles are powerful enough to get them in the game.  Gesture based control with head’s-up-displays …Continue reading →

Windows Home Server is actually useful!

December 1, 2007
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Today, instead of being the GM for Windows Home Server, I was simply a user… For the last two weeks my wife has been giving me the gears because the voicemail attachements from Vonage refused to play in Outlook on her computer. It was one of those weird software problems that defied logic.  All other types of attachments opened fine. I could send her an email with a .wav file attached and it would play …Continue reading →

10 years ago I had hair. I and I loved COM.

November 27, 2007
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Somewhere Henk de Koning unearthed a video of me taken 10 years ago yesterday touting The Component Object model.  Back then I was "the COM guy" and I had hair. Egads. "Don blogged about a video of Gudge explaining COM. This reminded me of an old video I found while cleaning up my office. I promised Don to digitize and publish it. So, here it is. Charlie Kindel on the wonderful world of COM. recorded …Continue reading →

Book Review: Scorpion Down

October 29, 2007
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In 1987 I was an intern at IBM Federal Systems Division in Manassas, VA. I was working on testing the software for the AN/BQQ-5D bow-mounted spherical array sonar system for the SSN 688 Class (Los Angeles) fast attack nuclear submarines. This was shortly after Tom Clancy had written The Hunt for Red October, one of my favorite books of all time. In fact, my "interview" for the internship was almost entirely a discussion about the …Continue reading →

Book Review: Queen of Candesce: Book Two of Virga

October 29, 2007
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Late last year I “discovered” Karl Schroeder when I read Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga. Recently he released the 2nd book of this series titled Queen of Candesce: Book Two of Virga and I finished it this weekend. Like the first book I thoroughly enjoyed it. Like the first book, I found a few too many “convenient” plot alignments. But overall, Karl paints an amazing picture of a “world” that is extraordinarily rich …Continue reading →

The connections are eerie

September 25, 2007
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Via my regular browsing of blog searches for Windows Home Server related stuff I came across this poor guy’s extremely sad story of data loss. http://adams-allegory.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-lost-everything.html First connection: He should have had a Windows Home Server. Second connection: As if to make himself feel better he adds a funny video from YouTube to his post. The Windows Home Server team has a great sense of humor.  (Yes, this is a tenuous connection to be sure, …Continue reading →

Book Review: Spook Country

September 7, 2007
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Johnny Mnemonic, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Burning Chrome.  All phenomenal stories.  Some of my favorite reads. The Difference Engine & Pattern Recognition: I never finished them. They just didn’t resonate with me. But I still will buy anything William Gibson writes and give it a go. I just finished his latest novel, Spook Country and here are my thoughts… In the end, it’s a great premise. I won’t spoil it for you but the premise is …Continue reading →

I want more life!

August 13, 2007
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I like to like things somewhat off the beaten path. But when asked what my favorite movie of all time is, like almost everyone else I know who has even a smidgen of taste, I say “Blade Runner“. No need for me to wax poetic about how great it is. I mean it has been around for 25 years now, and if you don’t already dig it nothing I say will change your mind. I …Continue reading →

PhotoSync for Windows Home Server

August 5, 2007
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09-22-02 107.jpg Originally uploaded by ckindel I just updated my Windows Home Server with Ed Halloway’s PhotoSync Beta 2. This Add-in for Windows Home Server automatically ensures that all photos stored in a particular folder on your home server are automatically published to your Flickr account. I have a shared folder on my home server named \\server\screensaverpics. Every time we offload photos from a camera I copy a few of the really great photos to …Continue reading →

Bourne

August 5, 2007
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I’ve always been a huge fan of Robert Ludlum. I started reading his books when I was in middle school. I don’t think the Bourne trilogy are his best works. I think The Osterman Weekend was my favorite. But with the Bourne Ultimatum coming out as a movie this week I felt I needed to go back and re-read the series. I frankly do not remember if I ever watched the first two movies or not. …Continue reading →

A revolution is underway

May 19, 2007
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Soma’s post announcing Popfly got me thinking. He uses the word “evolution”. I say it’s a revolution. Over 25 years ago I was part of a movement in the computer industry and didn’t even realize it. I was just a kid doing things on my Apple ][ I didn’t realize I had no business doing. I was a hobbyist developer. A bit later, in college, I wrote some of the earliest freeware & shareware for Windows. …Continue reading →

Windows Home Server SDK

April 5, 2007
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See my post over on the Windows Home Server team blog announcing the availabilty of the Windows Home Server SDK!

Am I a twit?

April 4, 2007
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I’m getting old and I think some of this newfangled technology stuff is beyond me. But that doesn’t stop me from trying to understand (and use it). I learn by doing. I can’t learn by reading. So I started blogging mostly to learn how blogs and blogging really worked. I run 6 servers in my house so I understand how Exchange, SQL Server, Group Policy, etc…. really work. And now I’m trying Twitter because there …Continue reading →

A Transparent Buzz

March 30, 2007
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Man there’s been a buzz around transparency lately… I honestly don’t have any insight into some grand plan at Microsoft about blogging and transparency. I can only point to my own personal experieces, and I have a timely example: Last week a member of my team posted to the Windows Home Server Team blog a post about the statistics of the bug reports and feature requests we have received. A reporter saw this post and decided …Continue reading →

Stop Digital Amnesia

March 18, 2007
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Stop Digital Amnesia SWAG Originally uploaded by ckindel. Have you checked out www.stopdigitalamnesia.com yet? We put this website together as a teaser for our announcement of Windows Home Server at CES. It is funny and informational!This photo is of some of the SWAG we gave out at CES to go along with the marketing campaign.Oh, and if you are posting screen shots of Windows Home Server on Flickr and tag them with “windowshomeserver”, “whs”, and …Continue reading →

More photos from Africa

March 17, 2007
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Air Originally uploaded by ckindel. I’m now about 1/3 of the way through organizing and filtering the over 4000 photos we took in Africa. I still haven’t geo tagged any, but I appreicate the pointers I have gotten from people on good tools to use. Click here to see my Flickr set containing a sampling of the best shots we took.I’m off to Europe tomorrow to visit with Windows Home Server partners and to see …Continue reading →