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Heh, heh. I just noticed Alec Saunder’s post linking back here.  I am not a big gambler and I really only get to Las Vegas once a year…for CES, but my gambling history is deeply rooted in an amazing experience I had in 1999 or 2000 (I don’t remember which) when Alec taught me how to play craps. I had “typical” beginners luck and scored big (something like $7500 at a $5 craps table) with …Continue reading →

Todd Headrick is the product planner for Windows Home Server. He was the first person I hired onto the team way back… Here’s Todd doing a great demo of Windows Home Server at CES. Near the end you’ll hear him utter the phrase “Divorcable Offense”. I coined this term to help make the point about how serious the consequences of loosing precious digital memories might be. Prior to the advent of digital cameras about 10 …Continue reading →

DSCN0242 Originally uploaded by ckindel. Here’s BillG doing an interview in the Windows Home Server booth at CES.

I didn’t realize that the feed of Bill’s CES keynote where he announced Windows Home Server had a section “blanked out”.  I’ve gotten a lot of quesitons from people about what was in that section. Well, the “blocked” portion of the keynote was a video commercial staring Bill Gates that was in the theme of HP’s “The PC is Personal Again” ads (see this HP site for other examples).  I guess it was blocked due …Continue reading →

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

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. 

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

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 →

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.

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.

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

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 →