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Some good Microsoft experiences

August 21, 2006

And they weren’t even Xbox 360 or Live related. Maybe my move to Seattle has mellowed me. Maybe I’ve grown up a little and realized that “hating” takes too much energy. I dunno, maybe it’s just the little things that impress me. This weekend I had two Microsoft experiences that were really nice. Every good [...]

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Epinions Lesson #1: Let them talk to each other

August 17, 2006

One of the things that stunned me when I joined Epinions was that they had no formal message boards. Before I joined, (in my mind) the very definition of a Web community was message boards. I had spent countless hours either lurking or actively participating in many message board, Usenet, and BBS communities even before [...]

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@ Wordcamp

August 5, 2006

Would love to meet you if you are here. Come up and say hi.

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How to make a business card in 3 days (Part 1)

July 15, 2006

A couple of weeks back, I attended the Gnomedex conference to hobnob with the digital l33t and make some techie contacts in the Seattle area. I registered late for the conference and was not completely prepared to go. I had no business cards. The cardinal rule of attending a conference (and making people remember you) [...]

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Plaxo for the Mac – Loves yummy addresses

June 26, 2006

The short version – DO NOT USE PLAXO ON YOUR MAC! The long version – Ok, I know that Plaxo is evil, but I really wanted another way than .Mac (which isn’t evil, merely incompetent) to backup my address book online. I had never tried Plaxo when I was in the Windows world (like I [...]

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Not dead yet…

April 11, 2006

Sorry folks, I’m still here. Very busy last couple of weeks, but posting should resume soon. And no, I haven’t just been playing the Xbox for the last week.

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What’s in my carry-on?

March 13, 2006

A little post vacation post here – I’ve just returned from vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii to escape winter here in the Pacific Northwest (for the rest of the country, its really pretty moderate, but for a recent San Francisco transplant, oy, it’s been a bit rough). Being a nerd on the go, [...]

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Stewtopia CES Photo Gallery on Flickr

January 6, 2006

We’ll be updating pics and posts throughout tomorrow (wifi willing) so check ‘em out while they’re hot. Special props going out to photographer extraordinaire, Suzi Blakely for putting up with me dragging her all over the show floor at this latest nerd fest. Gallery MUSIC UPDATE 2“Take These Broken Wings” – Please, somebody, make it [...]

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Gift Guide Roundup

December 1, 2005

Not sure what to get the nerd in your life? Here’s a pretty decent list of places to start. Most Unique Gifts (mostly) under $100 – Make Magazine Scientific American General Geeks Gizmodo Engadget Ultimate Geek Gift Guide – Wired Magazine CNET Ars Technica PC Magazine CNN Money Den Guru – part of Tom’s Hardware. [...]

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What to Buy?

November 9, 2005

I love researching new products for people. I love learning all the intricacies of new gadgets and why one thing might be better than another. I spend waaaaay too much time thinking about the trade offs between model ‘x’ and model ‘y’. Why do I do this? So when someone asks me “Which x should [...]

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Ask Stewtopia – Plasma vs LCD

October 26, 2005

Marco writes, “Does plasma pixelate fast moving objects? I’m just wondering because I saw a few plasmas that were doing that at frys and didn’t know if it was the dvd player that may have been messing up, or if it was just the plasma. I also noticed that LCDs go up to 1080 pixels [...]

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