Bill Gates Goes To College

For those that have seen the movie ‘Napoleon Dynamite‘, here is a little treat that Microsoft created for PDC that was going on last week.
Microsoft made a movie of Bill Gates and Napoleon Dynamite in college updating systems with some new Microsoft technologies. Ignore the fact that Microsoft is basically selling itself in the video. [...]


Watching Baby Reace

Name_Removed and I are babysitters today. Carrie, Name_Removed’s best friend, gave birth to a precious little girl. Baby Reace is now about 4 months old. When she was first born, she was pretty tiny, but is growing like a weed. Name_Removed and I would go visit her in the hospital when she was in Neonatal [...]


‘We had to kill our patients’

I don’t know if this is true, but I sure hope that is is some bull-sh*t. Nevermind the debate of physician assisted suicide or euthanasia. This is a little different considering the circumstances.
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill
patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated
hospitals, The Mail on [...]


Installed SuSE Linux

This last weekend, while Name_Removed was preparing for her triathlon, I was downloading all 5 ISOs for SuSE Linux Professional 9.3. I installed it over a virtual disk using VMWare. My first impressions are Linux is slowly becoming easier to use, but unless you are a Unix geek, good luck. I have read multiple articles [...]


Office 12 Interface Preview

During the PDC conference in LA today, Microsoft showed off it’s new interface design for the up-coming Office 12 application. This is a major change for Office. Some folks at Microsoft refer to this change to be as big of a change since Office 95.
The whole UI for Office 12 has been overhauled. The main [...]


New MSN Stuff

This evening I was playing around on the MSN Sandbox site. This site basically allows users to view up-and-coming MSN technologies. Once of the new sites I found was Start.com. This is basically MSN, bit stripped of all the crap. From what I can see, it’s pretty cool.
One of the fun features was the ability [...]