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Win7: Well, have you tried it?

A friend at Microsoft messaged me on Facebook and asked me if I’ve tried Windows 7 now that it’s officially released.  The short answer is, “No.” At home, I only use Windows on my gaming machine. XP after all these years is running (mostly) smoothly and quickly. The newest game I’m running said yesterday that [...]

Posted 23 October 2009 § Journal ‡ Comments (0) °

Twitter Lists: Defeat from the Beak of Victory

I wanted Twitter lists about five seconds after I clicked my second “follow”. My life is about categories and contexts: I follow people for different reasons, and I want to group those people and their tweets around similarities. Search and hash tags helped a little, but full-text search and uncontrolled tag vocabularies come with a host [...]

Posted 20 October 2009 § Articles ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Google Docs Shared Folders: More Folders, More Lies

Oh, Google. If you can’t get shared folder permissions right, who can?  Nobody. Because the folder is still a lie! Google Docs Adds Shared Folders — Mashable.com Mashable claims that Google’s new shared folders work just like they should. I beg to differ. Google doesn’t really have folders under the hood, just like some other document [...]

Posted 12 October 2009 § Journal ‡ Comments (0) °