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Is it too much to ask? Win one freaking game. Best record in the NL, second best record in all of baseball, and what do they do in the NLDS? Lose three straight. The one good thing, maybe, is they successfully completed 100 years without a title. I was
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Like a lot of people, I have been watching a lot of Olympics recently, and have really enjoyed it. I cannot quite put my finger on why, but I have been excited by the Olympics. This has also led me to augment my TV viewing with other sources of information.
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This is cool - Microsoft has 300,000 servers in a container farm in the Chicago Data Center . It has got to be hot in there. This kind of gives an idea to the pace of growth at Microsoft. Exciting times. Venkat
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I am a huge fan of Formula 1 racing, and don't follow races in the U.S. that much. However, I just found out that Live Search is sponsoring a car at the Daytona Motor Speedway for the 24 Hours of Daytona Endurance race. Turns out this is for a good cause.
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I have been looking at getting the HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server. Right now, all my data is stored on one external hard disk. I would really like to not have to worry about backing up all of the photos and videos I have. That should all just happen.
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Brandon LeBlanc has gone to some trouble to get a list of all Microsoft Team Blogs in one location. This is a very useful list for any Microsoft watcher. - Venkat
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My experience with web 2.0 applications is limited to Live.com homepage ( www.live.com ) and Start.com. In my experience, start.com was generally faster than live.com. There are various reasons for this, but one of the main ones is the amount of JavaScript
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Microsoft has released a new experimental Search Engine at www.tafiti.com . This looks like it is more to show the power of Silverlight than to show off a new Search interface. And it really does that. It is very easy on the eyes and completely smooth.
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This is exciting. Windows Live, for a long time has been confusing for a lot of people. Sites did not look the same and they did not work well with one another. That seems to be changing now. More and more services seem like they were built together.
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Yahoo Developer Network has a good post that details a number of things you can and should do to improve performance of your websites. Most of the recommendations are common sense, but together they pack a powerful punch. I have personally seen the bumps
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People that know me, know i am a huge Blues fan. I am particularly fond of the guitar. My favorite artist is Eric Clapton. So when I see a concert that features Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Robert Randolph and Jimmie Vaughan, I usually want to
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It seems like Microsoft is putting the Medstory acquisition to good use. MSN Health and Fitness now uses Medstory technology for Search results. When you search, you get results with a cool dashboard on top. This dashboard has categories and related terms
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Looks like the Microsoft Ad Lab research center folks have been busy. They released a new Keyword Suggestion Platform that seems to be off to a good start. It seems to be getting some good reviews - here is one by Jorie Waterman of iCrossing . It is definitely
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Halo 3 marketing starts - http://www.halo3.com . This should be fun to follow. - Venkat
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PopFly now has blocks for Live Search. These are what are available now: Block Description Live Search Retrieve web results from Live Search Live Image Search Retrieve images from Live Image Search Live News Retrieve news articles from Live News Search
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