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Bill Gates’ CES Keynote can be viewed online

January 8, 2007
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Head over to http://microsoftatces.com/ to view Bill Gates’ keynote where he announced Windows Home Server.

Windows Home Server

January 8, 2007
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Windows Home Server prototype Originally uploaded by ckindel. I am writing this from the Windows Home Server blogger’s lounge in the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Bill Gates just finished up his CES 2007 keynote where the product I have been slaving over for the last 3 years was finally formally announced to the world!I can’t even begin to describe how excited I am that the word is finally out. Microsoft is not known for …Continue reading →

screen clipping

January 4, 2007
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screen clipping Originally uploaded by ckindel. Kenny Kerr has developed a great screen clipping tool that works great on Vista. I find myself doing a lot of screen clips lately; epecially when submitting bugs.I’ve used OneNote’s screen clip capability and it works pretty well, and the new Vista snip tool is OK, but I find Ken’s tool easier to use. 

Devs on my team must know INTERCAL

January 3, 2007
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Jim Lyon co-authored the INTERCAL programming language. He’s a dev on my team. We decided that all devs must know this language in order to write code on my project. You should learn it too.

Book: Sun of Suns: Virga

December 24, 2006
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Found this book via Boing Boing and ordered it along with several others for reading over Christmas in Colorado. With the power outage, I had the chance to get through it last week. All in all it’s a pretty good read. The idea of an “inside out” world where the Sun(s) and the people live inside the world; a bubble, is intriguing. The author does a nice job of unfolding how it all works throughout the …Continue reading →

Stop Digital Amnesia?

December 24, 2006
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Noticed a banner ad on cnet.com that clicked through to this site www.stopdigitalamnesia.com (Stop Digital Amnesia).  Hmmm… Yet another Microsoft viral-teaser site. Something big will be announced on 1/7 at CES… Reminds me of Furry Goat’s post about 2 years ago that I commented on.

First Ski Day of 2007

December 24, 2006
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Family went skiing for the first time this year tonight at Steven’s Pass. I burst my S1/L5 disc in my back a few months ago and I just had another cortezone epidural injection yesterday. I was feeling close to 100% so I decided a little mellow night skiing with the fam would be a good test of how my recovery is going. 3 runs and my back started talking to me. I called it quits …Continue reading →

Flickr

April 6, 2006
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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Online purchase to my door in 13 hours!

October 28, 2005
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On Weds. evening I decided we needed to replace our old printer with a new one. My daughter was frustrated with the problems we were having with the existing one and it was hindering her homework activities. So I sat down at the PC, went to hpshopping.com and purchased a Photosmart 3310 all-in-one specifying next-day delivery. I submitted my order at 7:44pm PST on 10/26. The printer was delivered to my front door at 9:30am …Continue reading →

The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies

October 17, 2005
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Via BoingBoing I find out that John Scalzi (author of some great Sci-Fi and a former classmate) has released The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies. Sounds cool.

Simon of Space is compete!

September 22, 2005
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Simon of Space is complete. The last chapter has been posted. I’m shocked that the major outlets (/., BoingBoing, etc…) have not picked up on this phenomenon.  http://simonofspace.blogspot.com You can now order a printed book version: http://mfdh.ca/simon_of_space/ Read this book; it is that good.

Blogging from Flickr

July 31, 2005
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Classic Kona Look Originally uploaded by ckindel. Playing with Flickr tonight… I just discovered that Flickr lets you post blog entries from Flickr to just about any blog engine, including .Text. So this is a test to see if it really works… This is Kona, our Black Lab.

Seriously, read Simon of Space

July 16, 2005
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I wrote about it before, but it warrants more attention: The online SciFi novel being presented as a blog titled Simon of Space is simply fantastic. Start reading it today at http://simonofspace.blogspot.com. Every day I look forward to a new installment, and each one is as good or better than the previous. I can’t wait to hear how this story turns out.

Mark Cuban: These are the good ole days!

July 6, 2005
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This is an example of why I’m such a fan of Mark Cuban: These are the good ole days!

Furrygoat discovers the RAID rebuild

July 5, 2005
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Poor Steve (Mr. Furrygoat). Like many geeks out there he bought a RAID5 system thinking it was a silver bullet providing massive reliable storage for all his precious data (precious to him, due to the time it took to back up all his DVDs, not necessarily because the content iteself is precious). A drive failed in the array. The rebuild took over a day for only 300GB of stuff; that’s in addition to the time …Continue reading →

First Darth Vader and now Simon

July 1, 2005
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I Am A Cheeseburger (http://mfdh.ca/) is an immensly talented author who has been publishing some very creative things on various “Blogs”. I first discovered his Darth Vader’s Blog this spring and now am thoroughly enjoying Simon of Space, a science fiction adventure published as a blog. Really great stuff. Read it.

CATCHPA is Hip

June 9, 2005
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Comment spam has been driving me nuts. I implemented a blacklist based fliter a while back which stopped a bunch of it, but ever week 100’s of bogus comments got through because the blacklist was not updated fast enough. So as of last night I have implmented a CATCHPA solution on the comment posting form. CATCHPA stands for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”. The term “Hip” is also used “Human …Continue reading →

MCE Controller v1.1 Released – and now open source

May 12, 2005
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I built MCE Controller as something that would be useful for my own home. I had minor aspirations of making it do more than it does, but the reality is that I don’t really have the time nor the inclination (it works beautifully for me as is). Until today I have resisted making it open source for the simple reason that I didn’t really understand what it would take to put the source out there …Continue reading →

Do you have a NAS at home?

May 4, 2005
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A bunch of us were sitting around arguing about why people are buying these inexpensive NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes. Then we started arguing about who was buying them. I’ve poured over all the market research I can find and neither of these two questions are answered: Who is buying them (home users, tech enthusiasts, small business owners, corporate workgroup folk, etc…)? Why are they buying them (more storage, backup, sharing, …)? So I figure I’ll …Continue reading →

Old Man’s War

May 3, 2005
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I wish I could read more books. I love reading. That’s the problem. I start a book, and if it’s any good, I read it cover to cover in one sitting. Even if it takes me 2 days. Instead of fixing this by being more discliplined about putting books down, I’ve taken the stance of just avoiding starting books. That way I can have a life. This weekend, however, I  broke my rule (for the …Continue reading →