Rick Strahl blogged yesterday Live.com – I don't get it with good observations about performance and usability of live.com , as well as asking about what the goals are for the site itself. I read the blog post today and then forwarded it to people working...

There is a bunch of cool and useful new functionality on live.com , the Windows Live home page for Search, gadgets, and more. For some quick examples: Search Web for "Windows Live" General web search results on "Windows Live". Search News for "Windows...

Yesterday, Ronny Kohavi (a general manager in Windows Live division) created a new web site at http://exp-platform.com/ . The Experimentation Platform will enable product groups at Microsoft and developers using Windows Live to innovate using controlled...

In 1988, I went to a Monsters of Rock concert at the L.A. Coliseum with headlining bands like Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica (my three favorite hard rock bands). Nearly 100,000 people where rockin'. In the spirit of an all-star rock concert, I want to...

I was inspired to blog this entry based on a comment posted by Danny Thorpe on my recent blog post I made about Shackleton's adventure story in Antarctica, where he commented: If you have a yen for travel, it's possible to retrace Shackleton's steps...

I'm a big fan of Rick Steve's guidebooks and travel gear . I've been fortunate enough to visit Europe 14 times over the past 10 years speaking at various developer conferences and events. If you plan to travel to Europe, check out the various books, maps...

PowerPoint slide decks from all Windows Live (7 total) sessions from Mix06 are online at the links below. On demand videos of all Mix06 sessions will be going online soon. The Windows Live Platform: Build Applications That Have Access to 400 Million...

As more people start creating blogs and more web sites that distribute new content provide RSS (and Atom) feeds, there is more and more opportunity to subscribe to content using some type of feed reader. I've been using the NewsGator add-in for Outlook...

Windows Live Messenger is name of the next version of MSN Messenger. I started using the Windows Live Messenger beta recently, some cool new features have been added. You can Get the Windows Live Messenger beta and have real-time text, video and voice...

Notice there is no question mark after the title Who's On First . In 1945, comic actors Bud Abbott and Lou Costello performed a classic 5 minute baseball humor routine called Who's On First. Now over 60 years old, it still holds up as hilarious. In 1999...

I created a new category on my blog here called Movies/Music to blog. Probably my favorite category of movies is true stories and documentaries. I was inspired to blog on the topic of movies/DVDs on the topic of Sir Ernest Shackleton when I recently listened...

I use a SanDisk 1GB Ultra II SD PLUS Flash memory card as a portable flash drive. The price of the 1GB card has dropped down to only $67 at B&H Photo-Video . A 2GB version will be available soon, see SanDisk Doubles Capacity of Innovative USB-Flash...

This list of GSM codes for mobile phones that use GSM includes some great information for controlling many service settings. Many phones allow you to globally enable or disable outgoing caller ID, but most do not allow you to disable outgoing caller ID...

This very cool illusion from an animated set of images shows how complex the relationship is between the eyes and the brain. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black...

On Thursday April 6th, the Ideas Factory team in the Windows Live division at Microsoft hosted a 6 hour (3pm-9pm) Hack Day event. Details from the event were covered by Seattle Times technology reporter Kim Peterson in an article Microsoft "Hack Day"...

The time/date is... 1,2,3,4,5,6. I'm posting this entry at 3 seconds after 1:02am on April 5th, 2006 - 1:02:03 4/5/06 . For those in Europe and other parts of the world who format dates using day/month/year , they can post look forward to this once in...