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What's in a name?

Quite a lot it seems. I own a few domain names. Most I've had for several years and they've always been with the same registrar. Three of them need to be renewed in a few days time and I thought I'd shop around for a better deal on renewing the registration. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:38 AM by mcreasy | 8 Comments
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AOL Spam stats

According to AOL's stats , they've blocked almost a billion bits of spam today. That's a lot of spam. I've probably received between 30 to 40 spam messages today, all of which were blocked from hitting my inbox thanks to spamcop.net with no false positives. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:01 PM by mcreasy | 0 Comments
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Geek dinner

i just got back from the geek dinner. I met Robert Scoble and a whole load of other people. Interesting variety of conversation from "Is Google building a browser?" to portable media centers. I met a few people that I need to talk some more with, but Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 25, 2004 10:33 PM by mcreasy | 4 Comments
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Geek dinner in San Francisco

Robert Scoble is going to be in San Francisco this weekend as well so we're having a geek dinner on Saturday (25th) at 7pm at Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers ( 4138 24th St. ). If you're in the area come and join us. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:06 AM by mcreasy | 4 Comments
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Han does NOT shoot first!

My Star Wars DVDs have arrived a day early so I'm watching A New Hope right now. The picture quality is excellent, but the film is not the same as the Special Edition version... Greedo and Han now shoot at the same time! After Han shooting first and then Read More...
Posted Monday, September 20, 2004 7:18 PM by mcreasy | 4 Comments
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Visting San Francisco this weekend

I decided last week to take a last minute trip to San Francisco this weekend thanks to a promotion from United Airlines which meant my ticket only cost me $5 :-) While I'm in the area I though it might be fun to meet some local Media Center users / developers/ Read More...
Posted Monday, September 20, 2004 1:03 PM by mcreasy | 2 Comments
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Stardust probe crashes to Earth

Oops. That's a shame, I hope they can still salvage something from the project. Don Brownlee came to Microsoft a couple of months ago and mentioned the project and described how the probe was supposed to get back - parachutes and then caught be helicopter, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:21 AM by mcreasy | 2 Comments
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iMovie removes Apple's FairPlay DRM from iTunes Music Store songs?

It's not the first time that Apple's FairPlay DRM has been circumvented, but it appears that by importing a song into iMovie and then exporting it the DRM gets removed . There's no word on whether a loss of quality is involved. Quite how Apple will get Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:48 AM by mcreasy | 4 Comments
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Cheaper internet access

I've been a Comcast customer for almost 18 months and I've generally been happy with the service. I know that DSL is cheaper, but as I don't have a land line it's not really an option. I've heard that many people have gotten deals from Comcast by calling Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:26 AM by mcreasy | 4 Comments
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Back to school with Dell and Gateway?

In another example of companies using the same stock photos for their websites, Dell and Gateway are both using the same girl to promote their back to school deals. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:40 AM by mcreasy | 1 Comments
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Looking for a thermometer to connect to a PC

My officemate and I were talking about this this morning. We'd like to be able to use a PC to measure the temperature outside. Ideally this would be a serial connected device with a probe that could easily be placed outside. Google found us some, but Read More...
Posted Monday, July 19, 2004 9:24 AM by mcreasy | 5 Comments
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Limitied DVD copying to be legal in the future?

There's a story that's light on details from Reuters that suggests that limited DVD copying will be ok in the future. Microsoft, Disney, IBM, Intel, Matsushita and Time Warner have agreed in principle to make legal backup copies of next-generation video Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:09 AM by mcreasy | 2 Comments

No time to rip all your CD's?

LoadPod will do it for you! (Assuming you have an iPod and at least 50 CDs and are willing to pay $1.50 a CD and live in an area they service - which now includes Seattle). I can certainly see the appeal, ripping a lot of CDs takes a long time. I've probably Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:07 AM by mcreasy | 6 Comments
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Cool computer

Completely frozen solid! More photos here Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:54 AM by mcreasy | 0 Comments
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Long time without a post

Well I've been really busy and haven't had much time to write anything new. I've added a new category to my blog - books , which if I get right won't be included in my main feed or on the blogs.msdn.com page. I'm going to post updates on what I'm currently Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 12:32 PM by mcreasy | 0 Comments
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