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CES 2008, Day 2 (And AVN Day 1)…

January 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Gah, I think a full day of CES and one of AVN are about the limits for me. I could probably do a third day, but it would definitely be beginning to wear. Some more of the evening parties, especially the AVN Awards and Sony evening events. It’s twice now that I’ve had invites but [...]

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Tags: Geek Toys · Personal · The Day Job

The end of CES 2008, day 1 (for me anyway)

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Well I’d really intended to blog as the day went along, but as you can tell it got a bit crazy and I never had a chance.
So, here’s some of the day in recap.
With every year, as you walk around you get a sense of a what the main trends for a year - what [...]

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Tags: Geek Toys · Programming · The Day Job

Almost out the door!

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

In a few minutes, I’ll be tearing out the door from here at work to go hit the next flight out to Vegas. Looking forward to my first trip on Virgin America (killer prices, btw from SFO<>LAS, at $39 each way). Anyway, so I’ll be trying to report in from CES and AVN as the [...]

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So Microsoft’s website is going Silverlight, hmmm

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s not an entirely surprising move given that any attempt to make any headroom against Flash/Flex is going to take a near miracle to get some decent level of acceptance. So far my biggest interest in looking at using Microsoft’s new Flash competitor is that the Flex (the development/activescipt side of Flash) development environment blows [...]

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Tags: Programming · The Day Job

AOL cancels active development on Netscape browser

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Dulles (VA) - America Online (AOL) is planning to stop all active development on the Netscape browser, once the most popular browser on the Internet, beginning February 1, 2008.  AOL’s business focus will be on trasitioning to an ad-supported Web business, and it leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the [...]

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Tags: Geek Toys · Programming · The Day Job