Monthly Archives: August 2006

One Year Ago

A year ago at 11:25 p.m. CDT on August 28 Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph near the tiny fishing village of Buras-Triumph, Louisiana. Sometime during the early morning hours of … Continue reading

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And then there were Eight.

It’s official. Pluto got the boot. Send your hate mail to the IAU. I guess we just couldn’t leave well enough alone. This is probably what the World War 9 will be fought over 100 yrs from now. That’s when … Continue reading

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Microsoft loses another one

Microsoft, that stalwart defender of “Intellectual Property” and master of innovation loses yet another court battle on Patent Infringement. This company couldn’t innovate their way out of paper bag with a 100 page instruction manual. I have said this before … Continue reading

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The Insidious Silent Coup

According to a recent CNet article, Windows Live One Care is selling like hot cakes at the stores. “Helped by low pricing, Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare landed the No. 2 spot in sales at American stores in its debut month, … Continue reading

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Note to Apple – Ditch the ATTITUDE !

The blogosphere has been buzzing about the the number of Microsoft jabs during Steve Jobs’ keynote address at WWDC 06. Looking at the keynote this year one would think he is obsessed with Windows Vista and all the problems Microsoft … Continue reading

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Apple Opens Up OSX Kernal – Power PC & Intel

Apple has opened up the OSX kernal along with a lot of other stuff. The iCal server and Bonjour to me are actually more interesting. I would love to see more web support for iCal instead of just WebDAV. Despite … Continue reading

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ZUNE

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past weeks, you have undoubtedly heard of Microsoft’s new iPod/iTunes killer device / platform. As always John Gruber has a great take about it on it on his website. So … Continue reading

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