| 1. |  | Yahoo Seeks Spotlight in Hollywood  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:06:25
Yahoo, the Internet portal created a decade ago by a pair of Stanford University computer geeks, is getting serious about muscling in on the entertainment business.
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| 2. | | Wired: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill - Captured: 2-2-2005 10:00:00
Well, here's an article that doesn't trim at all with what I've seen at Microsoft. My first thought is, the only people who might give somebody a hard time about a music player are people like me, and it's all in fun. Second, I've seen a couple of music players on people as they walk around campus and most of the time that player isn't an iPod as far as I can tell.
"About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod," said one source, a high-level manager who ...
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| 3. | | Girls Night Out - Captured: 29-1-2005 9:24:52
Girl’s night out last night. I
went out with my friends Sue and Denise. I
was DD. We
went to O’Donovan’s Pub in
Minneapolis
. This is where we go to watch rugby. When
there is no rugby, we drink. Guiness. No
cute guys were around for the single chicks in the group to flirt with. For
some reason, someone threw a quarter at us as we were getting up to leave the table. Freaks.&...
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| 9. | | A Weekend At Sigiriya - Captured: 8-2-2005 12:58:00
Continuing on from my previous post, Looking Forward To A Long Weekend At Sigiriya...
A fairly eventful weekend. We drove from Wathupiiwala up to Kurunegala on Thursday evening. The journey takes me just less than 2 hours by car. We stayed overnight at Kurunegala with our friends Dylan & Sheila and their guest Tait before driving up to Sigiriya on Friday morning, stopping off at a craft village a few Km before Sigiriya. The journey took about 2.5 hours. We were booked into the Sigiriy...
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| 10. | | Looking Forward To A Long Weekend At Sigiriya - Captured: 3-2-2005 12:32:00
Friday 4th February 2005 is National Day here in Sri Lanka where the country celebrates its independance, in 1948, form the UK. As our factory, along with most of Sri Lanka businssses I believe, closes down I have decided (well my wife has actually - but I heartily concur) that we will take a long weekend and head off into the interior of Sri Lanka. I have managed to obtain one of the company pool cars for the duration and so the world is our lobster pot :)
Tonight we will travel from Wathupiti...
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| 11. | | 10 Pin Bowling In Colombo & 10 Pin Bowling Etiquette? - Captured: 30-1-2005 10:25:00
A mixed bag at the 10 pin bowling alley today.
First score of 77 was a complete embarrassment. Nearly every ball pulled to the left. Even when I realised this and compensated it made no difference. I think the problem might have been the people in the left hand lane but more of that at the end of the post. Anyway suffice to say by the end of this game I was down to 15Kmph in a vain attempt to control vaguely where the ball was going :(
Next game was possibly the best game I have played in my ...
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| 12. | | Personal Log - Saturday 29th January - Captured: 29-1-2005 13:21:00
Almost wanted to say Captain's Log in the title of the post but managed to contain the Trekkie in me ;-)
I've spent all day on the computer :) Performed some mundane tasks like tidying up my email address book, chasing up the other vbCity Leaders via email to ask for the final votes for January's .NET Fella award to be cast, adding another category to my blog site (Work) and progressing a few more blog posts that are still not ready to get posted, reading up on all (well OK almost all) the RSS ...
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| 14. | | Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Sues To Stop Website - Captured: 10-2-2005 19:24:57
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is quite upset that some folks are trying to set up a website called "the Jewish Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." The claim, of course, is that they have a trademark on the phrase "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" and this violates that mark. The guys behind the website wonder how anyone can have a trademark on such generic terms and also wonder how anyone would possibly confuse the two -- one being a big museum and one being a pretty focused website that hasn't even laun...
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| 15. | | Updates Across the Board - Captured: 11-2-2005 22:57:23
There is a lot of activity here, so we wanted to provide a quick update on a number of fronts.
SmartCast. Our "podcasting for everybody" service has been extremely popular and has begun to foster a number of add-on requests, most of which deal with bandwidth distribution. While a number of potential solutions have been publicly floated (and we've conceived a few of our own), we want to keep an eye on the evolution of enclosure usage a bit more carefully over the near term before we jump to an...
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| 16. | | The Cricket Club Café, Colpetty, Colombo 3, Sri Lanka - Captured: 12-2-2005 16:01:00
Another pleasant evening in Colombo was spent in the Cricket Club Café (CCC) which we introduced to Ken, a Canadian, who had just arrived in Sri Lanka to work. Ken had contacted me via my blog , this afternoon, and we arranged to meet at the CCC at 17:30. Helen, my wife, and myself spent a very enjoyable couple of hours chatting to Ken and I hope he enjoyed it just as much :) Ken & myself had the Chilli crab which, as always, was excellent and Helen had Nachos which she enjoyed. Ken &am...
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| 18. | | Hollywood Actresses Love Board Games - Captured: 13-2-2005 20:51:38
In January, we learned that Mischa Barton (star of The O.C.) loves board games. In the Feb. 14 issue of Newsweek, Eva Mendes (star of Training Day) reveals that she enjoys Poker and says, "My favorite thing to do is,...
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| 19. | | Lewis Black kicks ass!! - Captured: 14-2-2005 7:23:51
Lewis
Black kicks ass…Just got back from the “Rules of Enragement Tour”. Black
was his usual curmudgeonly, hand-waving, finger-pointing, talking-through-gritted-teeth,
f-bomb-dropping self…and it goes without saying he was funny as hell.
His
everyday Joe rationality…decent, hard-working, civil-minded, progressive mindset,
and raging wit made mincemeat out of what passes f...
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| 20. | | Vliegende Oscar koorts - Captured: 14-2-2005 18:02:38
Op 27 februari is het weer tijd voor een nieuw Oscars uitreiking. In Hollywood houden ze er van om zichzelf in de bloemetjes te zetten, want we zijn al aan de 77e editie toe.
Het lijstje met uitverkoren films geeft onmiddellijk aan wie de topfavoriet is: The Aviator van Martin Scorsese. ...
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12/01/04 - Sun Microsystems Survey of Holiday Shopping Habits Puts Retailers on Notice
- Captured: 15-2-2005 21:34:27
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - December 1, 2004 - According to a new survey on consumer shopping patterns this holiday season released today by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), 91 percent of American consumers will walk out of a store and shop elsewhere if they cannot find the particular gift they want. Adults online who plan to shop for gifts this season are equally unforgiving of online retailers that do not have the product they want when they want it-only four percent would buy a different gif...
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| 22. | | The Quest for Ethiopian - Captured: 16-2-2005 0:42:10
One of my more eccentric hobbies
is that I seek out Ethiopian restaurants in all the cities I visit. Of course I don’t
always have time, especially when doing user group presentations because the one evening
I’m in a city is the evening I’m speaking. But for cities where I am speaking at a
conference or working at a client I usually have at least one evening free to explore
the city.
Why Ethiopian you ask? A couple
reasons.
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| 23. | | Poverty and George Bush - Captured: 16-2-2005 6:59:26
Chuck Currie has a passionate new post about poverty and the George W. Bush administration. Here is an excerpt -- but go check it out -- it is good to find other souls in this world who find deep meaning in Christ's love for the poor. We are the only nation that can't a national voice to speak out against poverty even in our own country, let alone Africa or Asia.
Thank goodness for Bono, and for the present hip trend in Hollywood to follow his and others' examples, and lend their voices to ...
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| 24. | | The Gates by Christo in New York City (12 Gates to the City) - Captured: 16-2-2005 6:59:26
Oh what a beautiful city
Oh what a beautiful city
Oh what a beautiful city
Twelve gates to the city, hallelujah.
Christo's Gates have come to New York City's Central Park. It is truly an experience to walk through them, around them, see them flapping in the wind, and see them like a silent line of fire curving through the sketched trees of winter.
We spent the day weaving in and out of awed crowds, looking up, jumping around, smiling, basking in the sunny Sunday afternoon joy of Ce...
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| 25. | | Fire - Captured: 16-2-2005 7:07:02
Yeah, I'm getting desperate for things to shoot. I don't think you can make a picture of fire interesting unless you happen to walk by an inflamed house or person. I shouldn't have let the camera focus on the flame, especially at f/1.8.
A: f/1.8 • S: 1/8 • Focal Length(35mm): 80mm • ISO: 400 • Metering: Evaluative
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