Bill in the booth
DSCN0242 Originally uploaded by ckindel. Here’s BillG doing an interview in the Windows Home Server booth at CES.
HP MediaSmart pic
DSCN0235 Originally uploaded by ckindel. Here’s a pic I took this morning in the Microsoft booth at CES of the Windows Home Server powered HP MediaSmart device.I put my latte next to it so you might … Read more
Bill’s Keynote and the "missing segment"
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, … Read more
Amazing Response
My inbox is overflowing with messages from people congratualating my team, asking questionsm, and pointng me at all the great press we’ve been getting. I awoke this morning over a hundred emails directly to me and my … Read more
Windows Home Server
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 … Read more
screen clipping
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 … Read more
Devs on my team must know INTERCAL
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
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 … Read more
Stop Digital Amnesia?
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 … Read more
First Ski Day of 2007
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 … Read more
Flickr
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.
Online purchase to my door in 13 hours!
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 … Read more
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies
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!
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: … Read more
Blogging from Flickr
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 … Read more
Seriously, read Simon of Space
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 … Read more
Furrygoat discovers the RAID rebuild
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 … Read more
First Darth Vader and now Simon
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 … Read more
CATCHPA is Hip
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 … Read more
MCE Controller v1.1 Released – and now open source
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 … Read more