Archive for May, 2009

[PODCAST] Podcasting: Today’s AM radio, without the static

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Remember AM radio?  Yeah, me neither!  But I’ve read that they used to have things called “talk shows” on it… for FREE even!
Actually, I truly am a big fan of talk radio and have, ever since I can remember, put up with large doses [...]

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My new gig: Contributor for TechVi.com

So I posted this rather mundane attempt at self-depricating humor on Facebook this past weekend: “Bloggin’ on a Saturday night. Yes, my life is THAT exciting.” And as a result, it DID get a bit more exciting.
A while later, after leaving the Facebook tab open and browsing elsewhere, I noticed that someone had tried to [...]

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Is Microsoft worried about another download server crash on Tuesday?

“So you don’t need rush to make sure you get your copy.  When you’re ready to download the RC, it’ll be waiting for you.”
That’s a cut-and-paste from Microsoft’s emailed announcement about the upcoming availability of the Windows 7 Release Candidate.  Apparently they’re worried that their servers — which I doubt are running OS X Server [...]

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I like more music NOW from "my day" than I did THEN

Anyone else?
I didn’t care much for a lot of the popular music in the 90s until recently. When I was living through it, I preferred 70s and 80s music.
Does that mean I’ll eventually LIKE the crap on the radio today? I doubt it.

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Windows 7 Release Candidate good through June 2010

The Release Candidate for Windows 7 is already available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers and will be downloaded by hundreds of thousands when it is publicly released this coming Tuesday (May 5th).
Not just another “normal” beta release, this version should be relatively feature-complete and stable (although the Win7 beta previously released was pretty darn [...]

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Updated Seesmic offers Facebook integration

Seesmic updated its Adobe AIR based Twitter client, “Desktop Preview”, today to include, among a few other features and bug fixes, Facebook integration.
I recently tried out Seesmic Desktop Preview and was impressed with what appears to be a TweetDeck clone, but quickly found that it lacked Facebook completely.   Now, with that addition, and the [...]

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