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Stop using Google!
live.com is (finally!) sooo much better. Yes, I know "Google" has become a verb and it's hard to say "Live it", but the reality is Live's search results are (finally) better. Live's mapping ( http://maps.live.com ) is far...
Kindl. Kindel. Kindle.
Back before the invention of the printing press my great, great, great grandfather came to the United States from Bavaria. His name was August Kindl. At Ellis Island the immigration officials added the 'e'...hence my family's name. We pronounce...
Book Review: Queen of Candesce: Book Two of Virga
Late last year I "discovered" Karl Schroeder when I read Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga . Recently he released the 2nd book of this series titled Queen of Candesce: Book Two of Virga and I finished it this weekend. Like the first book I thoroughly...
Posted: Oct 29 2007, 05:36 PM by charlie | with 3 comment(s)
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I want more life!
I like to like things somewhat off the beaten path. But when asked what my favorite movie of all time is, like almost everyone else I know who has even a smidgen of taste, I say " Blade Runner ". No need for me to wax poetic about how great...
Posted: Aug 13 2007, 07:14 AM by charlie | with 3 comment(s)
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PhotoSync for Windows Home Server
09-22-02 107.jpg Originally uploaded by ckindel I just updated my Windows Home Server with Ed Halloway's PhotoSync Beta 2 . This Add-in for Windows Home Server automatically ensures that all photos stored in a particular folder on your home server...
A revolution is underway
Soma's post announcing Popfly got me thinking. He uses the word "evolution". I say it's a revolution. Over 25 years ago I was part of a movement in the computer industry and didn't even realize it. I was just a kid doing things on my Apple ][ I didn't...
Windows Home Server SDK
See my post over on the Windows Home Server team blog announcing the availabilty of the Windows Home Server SDK!
Am I a twit?
I'm getting old and I think some of this newfangled technology stuff is beyond me. But that doesn't stop me from trying to understand (and use it). I learn by doing. I can't learn by reading. So I started blogging mostly to learn how blogs and blogging...
Posted: Apr 04 2007, 06:34 PM by charlie | with no comments
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Jetman: A human jet airplane
There are few things cooler than this. Ever. I want one of these. Wow. http://jet-man.com/playervideo.swf?video=jetman2007.flv
Posted: Feb 14 2007, 03:41 AM by charlie | with 5 comment(s)
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Building your Windows Home Server box
Until OEMs ship Windows Home Server hardware the only way to run Windows Home Server is on a machine you provide. The hardware requirements are pretty meager: An x86 CPU with roughly the same horsepower as a 1GHz Pentium III. It will actually run on less...
Visual Studio Express and Windows Home Server
Dan Fernandez is the lead product manager for Visual Studio Express . He just blogged about developing tools and applications for Windows Home Server using Visual Studio. + As I mentioned in my Channel9 video I'm super excited that WHS is going to enable...
He bit him!
I have not watched the 3rd and 4th hours of 24 that were on last night. Just didn't have the time. But I did watch the first two hours on Sunday nght. All day yesterday the vampire scene kept popping into my head. Each time I burst out laughing. He bit...
Posted: Jan 16 2007, 07:57 PM by charlie | with no comments
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We've been /. ed
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1711237 It’s quite gratifying to see the number of fans of WHS we have on this slashdot thread. There was an earlier /. thread that pointed to an article that was ostensibly about Windows Home...
Channel9 video interview on Windows Home Server
My Channel 9 interview video just went live. Please don't tease me about how often I say “um”. http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=270965
Stop Digital Amnesia SWAG
Stop Digital Amnesia SWAG Originally uploaded by ckindel . Have you checked out www.stopdigitalamnesia.com yet? I know in my first post I had a typo in the URL (thanks Mark for fixing it remotely for me!). My marketing team (and the vendors who helped...
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