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An update on some of the recent daylight saving time changes around the world coming this year to Morocco, Pakistan, Syria and Tunisia in 2009… It's been a busy time, reflected in fewer than normal postings on this blog, but happily it's due in part (when
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It's been a long week by any measure, and I was happy to offer some assistance today to a few associates impacted by the job eliminations. Having experienced this in SiValley myself, I hope that I'm able to make an impact and help where possible.
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In the last few weeks, I've noticed an increase in phishing and email fraud as I noted a few days ago in my post The new year rings in another bonus: a rise in bogus electronic greeting cards . (More on what a phishing scam looks like is available here
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An interesting metaphor given the wet, rainy weather we have this week in the Redmond area: 40 days and nights from now, the television world should be changing to digital broadcast in the States. But not if Obama’s team request for a delay in digital
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First it was questions about whether or not we'd have to worry about the coming Leap Second , then today after our power came back on, customer questions about the Zune 30. As we have a couple of Zune 30s in our home going strong, I was surprised to see
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I've been accused (rightly so, I might add) of enjoying general vanilla, Everyman news purveyors such as USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, along with Wired, BusinessWeek and Fortune. (I also read much more, much to my wife's
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As I Tweeted today (no, really, I can stop any time) I saw a question today on the subject of the coming leap second , as noted in the MSN posted article, 2009 to arrive not a second too soon , from Space.com's Joe Rao: "Wait a second. "The
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Sad day. According to news reports today, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry , the widow of television director/producer/writer and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry , died today (December 18, 2008) as a result of complications from leukemia. You may remember
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Greg Kelton of Adelaide Now reported (October 01, 2008 11:50am) daylight saving started this weekend down under, and noted that "any further attempts to have South Australia move to eastern standard time will be rejected by the Rann Government."
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Usually, when I receive news from Brazil on daylight saving time, it's a request for an urgent hotfix or a response for a concerned customers. I Twittered that I was happy to get word today from our team in Brazil on major changes in the country.
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Of interest... OneCare to be preinstalled in new PCs from several PC manufacturers... To address the growing security and management needs of today’s new PC user, Microsoft Corp. is working with 11 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including Sony
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As I previously posted here -- with link to the lecture -- about Randy Pausch's piece in the usually less than cutting edge weekly Parade, The Lessons I'm Leaving Behind , adapted from his book The Last Lecture , written with Wall Street Journal reporter
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"I read the news today... oh, boy." You can read more in the Journal article by Robert Guth... "The head of Microsoft Corp.'s online business who led the company's bid to buy Yahoo Inc. is leaving the software giant to run Juniper Networks, Inc., according
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Tomorrow is Canada Day so a shout out to my friends north of the boarder as well as the many local Canucks we have on campus, at the Microsoft MCDC and MS Canada. Canada is so much more than Bob and Doug McKenzie (I'm shoring my age). And with a nod to
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