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Category Archives: News and politics
Determination, Success and Innovation
I’ve been interviewing for new positions at various companies, and one of the questions that seems to keep coming up is this idea of success can be attained if one works hard enough. And while I cannot know what they … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure, News and politics, Uncategorized
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Infographic Misdirection and Bias Influencing
When I saw this infographic it instantly stuck me as off. I had to look very closely to discover exactly how it was misleading me. This article is clearly biased in the favor of Google, the info depicted here implies … Continue reading
XenoBiology
Back in 1997 I took my first organic chemistry class, and in it we discussed the origins of organic compounds in a primordial soup. Ever since then I’ve had interest in the origins of life, “genetics”, knowledge transmission and of … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure, News and politics
Tagged Aliens, Degenerate Mathematical Spaces, R & R, Robots
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2013. If it were a … Continue reading
So you wanna make a Healthcare website..?
All the kerfluffel around the HealthCare.Gov website debacle is a bit funny and frustrating to me. I start with the frustrating bits, and then I will discuss the humor in it all. It’s Frustrating that the Senators are not asking the right questions and … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computers and Internet, Jokes, Leisure, News and politics, Programming
Tagged Azure, Error, software, technology, Zombies
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To build a better mouse trap…
Where is the next Horizon? I find it appropriate as we have gotten to the plateau and nobody can seem to see the next higher mountain… and I am in a “giving my opinion” mood lately… So what are the … Continue reading
.. code it! Shoot.. I’ll just bing it
Scott Hanselman posted recently about the idea that we as developers should exercise our knowledge, and that searching the internet may not be so bad (go read it it’s short, then come back). I find this to be interesting. There has … Continue reading
SurfaceRT was it a blunder or a stumble?
I honestly think that the SurfaceRT is more a part of the “big picture” investment for MSFT, moving the industry into a paradigm that makes it harder to get copies of proprietary OS’s, and shifting the larger corporations to a … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics
Tagged Azure, cloud, Ipad, MSFT Apple, Surface, WinRT, Xbox
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XBOX ONE Reveal… – Reviewed
New Features Personalizable home screen “Trending” Live Tile TV Tuner voice activated Replaces your cable receiver XBOX ONE Guide HULU -Like Favorites & Trending Multi Tasking Multi threading “desktop” Natural User Interface Use your xbox like in Minority report Skype on … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Controller, Digest, Distributed Programming, Game Development, Graphics, Leisure, News and politics, Programming, Review & Comparison, Sensors, User Interface (UI)
Tagged Game Theory, Kinect, LiveID, R & R, technology, Xbox, Zombies
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Pictorial History of Microsoft
I have gathered together a pictorial history of Microsoft, in my travels to find a pictorial history/evolution of the Microsoft Graphics API’s (GDI->GDI+->DirectX->WDDM (silverlight, and WPF). I know that it is out there, I’ve seen it (photographic memory) but I have yet to find … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure, News and politics, Review & Comparison, Windows 8
Tagged C#, google, Microsoft, microsoft offerings, software, technology, Win8, WP7, Xbox, XP
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