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Things Geeks Appreciate

October 8, 2008

I spent the day at the new Rackspace Headquarters.  First visit since I went with Scoble early this year.  It was under construction then (I am now a Mosso/Rackspace employee).
What impressed me?  The Dyson Airblade.
Really – a hand blower/dryer that actually works!
Everything in the bathrooms is no touch – even the soap dispenser (which I [...]

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Oh Really? Vista?

July 31, 2008

Microsoft did a “blind taste test” with a group that thought they were looking at the NEXT version of Windows – code-name Mojave.
Some of the clips showing the reaction of people that had preconceptions about Vista are pretty classic.
First, the “Oh Really?” group: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/#/?video=v12
Then the main site: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/
I like Vista myself, even though I am [...]

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Across The Universe (Movie Review)

June 7, 2008

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I watched this movie this morning – it was lent by a friend, and I had no idea what it was about. 
It is a musical.
And normally that would have ended my review (and [...]

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PhotoCycle Teaser

June 5, 2008

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PhotoCycle is a new Video Show with Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk and Marc Silber.
It hasn’t launched yet, but here is a little teaser.  This is one show I am really looking forward to!
If the video embed below doesn’t [...]

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Playing with Silverlight

May 9, 2008

The "Deep Zoom" Feature in Microsoft Silverlight (Silverlight 2 beta 1) is pretty cool.  To play with it I made a collection of some of my daughters artwork.

Silverlight lets you zoom in, drag the page around, double click to zoom, etc.
 
 
 
Click on the picture to open a new browser window.  If you don’t have [...]

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