I’m going to need to start emailing around Microsoft Research now that i work at Microsoft…because i’m intrigued by this thing:
Microsoft Research’s Courier
This new device, called “Courier” showed up on Gizmodo today, and i don’t know why it hasn’t gotten more press. Maybe because its still in a “late prototype” phase and everyone assumes there’s an apple iTablet thing due any time now?
I’ve never been a fan of the ebook reader things because they just don’t look right. my laptop, for how small it is, isn’t the right form factor either. My iphone is just too small to read on. I think this thing is about perfect! I had a Vadem Clio years ago, and it was the closest thing to the right size device for what i’d like to carry around, but it was underpowered and the touchscreen wasn’t anywhere near the size or quality as they are now.
Vadem Clio. now ancient technology!
But this Courier device looks like it would work great with the right ebook reader software, and a coworker already said it would be a great machine to fold over, with a screen facing each way to play battleship on 
. It would be a great meeting computer, surf the web on one side, take notes on the other. I’d never need another paper notebook ever!
I’ve spent a couple weeks now trying to get this server back running and have had the wierdest problems…The network keeps disappearing! After a few hours, the NIC just stops working. Device manager still shows it, but the link light is gone, and the activity light stays off. I’ve updated bios, drivers, tried another NIC, same problem.
If i uninstall the driver, and reinstall the driver, sometimes it just magically comes back…looks like i might need to get Win2k8 server R2 when it comes out, see if it fixes some of these things… We’ll see how long the machine stays on the network tonight!
I was browsing random crap on ebay today…and on my profile, saw this:
Member since: Feb-16-99 in United States
Holycrap, really? I’ve been buying stuff off ebay for a decade? I thought that ebay would die a quick death, like some of the other auction sites that we bought computer stuff from in college….
I’m sorry, but the President is not supposed to be your friend. Going on TV with a NCAA bracket? Going on Jay Leno while being President? Neither of these things is Presidential. The former is a thing that a 23 year old high school teacher right out of college would do to be friends with high school girls. The latter is something you do on the campaign trail. We get it, you’re cool. Now get over yourself and get to work.
See for yourself!. Click + to zoom in.
I’m doing rock fingers, jay is doing the robot. We just barely saw him going by on our way to lunch. That was like 6 months ago? It was cold enough to wear a jacket…
Here’s another view that pete found:
We were just coming out the ping-pong-plaza door.
I came across these two videos at the bottom of a story at kirotv.com, a local tv channel’s news website.
If we could combine these two stories into one, which problem would be solved?
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The hunt is on for a cougar seen prowling the city streets of Olympia.
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A graffiti spree over the holiday weekend is prompting the Seattle Parks Department to try a new approach to stop the vandals.
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The possibilities! And being seattle, it would be an environmentally friendly way to solve the tagging problem…
During tonight’s republican debate, McCain actually just said that he had voted against a 1 million dollar package to fund a “Woodstock museum”. He claimed that, woodstock might have been an important cultural moment, but:
…I wasn’t there…I was tied up at the time.
That’s good stuff. If you don’t get it, i can’t really explain it to you. I wonder how long he’s been saving up that quote?
Updated: here is a youtube clip of it.
I found this article at TechReport via a post at Daring Fireball, and i agree completely. I’m not sure who all these people are who are using vista that say it sucks. I recently upgraded my computer to a new HP, and i had the choice between a Dell with most of what i wanted and a choice of XP or Vista, or the HP, with everthing i wanted and Vista Ultimate. I got the HP.
I haven’t had any real issues so far, aside from trying to find where they moved some things or what they changed the names of things to. The new Mobile Device Center is way better than Activesync, Media Center is awesome, and everything’s much prettier.
The only real problem i’ve had was that Asheron’s Call would not update with Norton Protection Center installed. Uninstalled that and everything works. I’m currently running the trial of Live OneCare because that anti-virus stuff works with AC.
The security prompts in Vista are a nightmare, true, and i’ve had to disable that because i can’t stand being asked if i want to run a program every time i run it. At least OSX only asks you if it needs to do something as admin, and it only asks once. Apparently nobody at microsoft uses vista with the feature turned on, or they would have changed it already.
Just got emailed this today from my uncle perry:
Go to flickr for the full size image, and see if you notice something…. strange! Stranger than your initial reaction!!
