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A Microsoft-Yahoo Takeover Primer

Marc Andreessen has a great blog post today laying out the possibilities in the Microsoft-Yahoo talks. Unlike most posts on the subject, this one isn't trying to guess what might happen. Instead, it lays out the options and the forces affecting those
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Your Hard Drive Probably Isn't Running At Full Speed

Here's a little known fact that could speed up your life. Most SATA hard drives in the market today ship in 1.5 Gb/s mode instead of the 3.0 Gb/s mode they are capable of. I know for sure that Seagate and Maxtor both ship retail drives with jumpers set
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Is That A Wiki In Your Pocket?

Here's a cool little tool I discovered recently. It's called DokuWiki on a Stick . DokuWiki is a PHP-based wiki that stores its data in text files instead of a database. This makes configuration and backup a little simpler. DokuWiki on a Stick takes MicroApache
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Modularization vs. Integration - Which Is Best?

Clayton Christensen's second book, The Innovator's Solution, produces several important theories in the realm of innovation. Like his first book, The Innovator's Dilemma, the second book should be required reading for anyone in technology and especially
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The Tipping Point: Not True?

There's a popular business book out right now called the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. In it he explains how big trends are started by a few people. He calls them connectors and mavens. These are the people who know everyone. I read the book about
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Unboxing Drobo

My Drobo arrived today.  It is a slick device.  As one accustomed to the PC world, even the unboxing was a treat.  The typical piece of PC hardware comes in utilitarian packaging.  You're just going to throw it away anyway, so why
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Welcome to 2008

Not a great start for 2008 out here in Seattle. We had a big fireworks display at midnight on the Space Needle. Unfortunately, there were some glitches. The fireworks were coordinated by a computer, but it had some " glitches " and eventually they had
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First EMI, Then Universal, Now Warner...

Apparently Warner Music just announced that they were releasing all of their tracks DRM-free. That makes 3 of the big four giving the heave-ho to DRM. Sony is now the lone holdout against the future. How long until they give in to the inevitable? Next
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Welcome Matthew van Eerde to the Blogosphere

One of my team members, Matthew van Eerde, just joined the blog world. Check out his inaugural post .
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Inbox Zero

If you're anything like me, you have way too much e-mail to read it all. To try to cope with this, I've resorted to a collection of rules that sorts my mail into a Byzantine structure of folders. This helps a little, but has the problem of helping me
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The New Zune Revue

Over the past few years I have become an avid podcast listener. I've been using Creative MP3 players until this point. I have owned a Zen Nano, Zen Stone Plus, and a Zen Vision M. The first was good its 1 GB size became restricting. The second was a good
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Happy Thanksgiving!

It is Thanksgiving today. My wife and I will be having a small gathering of about nine family members. I always enjoy getting some time to put work aside for a few days just hang out with family. I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving today and that
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Resume Advice

Some resume advice from Steve Yegge. I don't agree with all of it but it's good stuff to consider when writing your technical resume.
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The Ultimate Geek Jacket

With Christmas approaching, here is a cool idea for the gadget-lover. The ScottEVest Evolution Jacket is a waterproof jacket with 25 pockets for all the cellphones, Zunes, PDAs, pens, etc. that we tend to carry these days. The jacket also has special
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New Blade Runner Coming!

25 years after Ridley Scott's masterpiece was first released, another version is nearly upon us. Blade Runner: The Final Cut is coming December 18. What I find most cool about this is not the new cut, but rather the original. When it was released in 1982,
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