Month: April 2006

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Weird

David Hasselhoff sings Hooked on a Feeling, Reeves is mesmerized

While waiting for Windows XP to install on my freshly installed Virtual PC I found my way over to YouTube and fell under the spell of this David Hasselhoff video. The concept for the video obviously came from a poor translation of something Tommy Chong wrote in his own vomit after an all-night bender.  The special effects appear to have been done by the creepy geek who hangs out in the computer lab (and not the smart geek you want to have fix stuff, the other guy with the really poor hygiene).


And yet… I couldn’t take my eyes off it…




Categories
Music

Old news: Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 11 is up

I downloaded this one at the beginning of April, so Mercedes-Benz’s mixed tape 11 is certainly not brand new, but hey… it’s free music.  Grab it while it’s still there.


Categories
Photography Weird

Buffet for cats

Ever see people standing around a lobster tank trying to decide which one they should request?


Categories
Hotmail

CNet’s piece is up on the Hotmail team

Several weeks back Ina Fried from c|net came to campus and interviewed a bunch of people. Her piece is now up on c|net news.com. It’s a good read to give folks a little glimpse into the team.

Ina spent the majority of the day with people around campus and a lunch in a conference room with some of us “old folks” from Hotmail. I’m not that old… really, honest. I wasn’t even “acquired” with Hotmail. I just have shown a decided lack of vision and stuck with the team for the past six years. 🙂 Demonstrating the power of the sound-byte, I was only with her for the lunch part but ended up with my own side bar. As a result I’m now working on growing a mullet.

Hey Warhol. is this going to be deducted from my fifteen minutes?

News.com link is dead but exists in the internet archive. A copy of the main article (without sidebar) is up on Tech Republic: Hotmail’s new address.

Categories
Overseen

Appealing packaging

Doesn’t this just make your mouth water?


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Categories
Life

A much needed break.

Our first night we stayed at the Mariott while we waited for the house my parents rented to be available and open.  It was very pretty.

 


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Categories
Net Sites

Get Fuzzy Unofficial RSS feed


Many thanks to Patrick for pointing me to the unofficial Get Fuzzy feed.  I can now get my daily dose delivered right to my desk.


 

Categories
Hotmail

New ship it!


It’s a little hard to read, but it says “MSN Wave 10 Hotmail.  April 7th 2005”


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Categories
Overseen

Inspiring confidence

I was helping my friend Phillip set up his new Buffalo Airstation when I was presented with a wonderful configuration confirmation… a friendly looking chef surrounded by a bunch of Japanese text. So, either his new router is setup correctly, or he just won a lifetime supply of Udon.


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Categories
Hardware Microsoft

PC Hardware makers, you’ve been put on notice

It has been a long time since the PC world migrated away from churning out beige boxes, but major manufacturers have been slow to adopt industrial design standards which can keep up with clean, well-thought-out hardware produced by Apple.  There have been periodic flashes of inspiration from Sony and Shuttle, the results, however, have been inconsistent.


With the advent of the Intel-based Mac, speculation of Windows running on an Apple Macintosh has, of course, abounded.  With Apple’s latest announcement of “Boot Camp”, an app which allow an Intel-based Mac to dual boot to Windows and Mac OS, we’re sure to see increased adoption of the Mac platform.  Users who are willing to pay the premium price of a Mac will no longer have to worry about the issues of incompatibility with the business world.


 
Seriously, which computer do you thing a grownup is going to buy? (Sorry Michael Dell)