Every few years, my father, brother, and I take a big trip somewhere cool. In recent trips, it has been primarily golfing. We went to Ireland in 2002 and to Scotland in 2006. However, next year we are headed to Alaska on a fly-fishing adventure to the Rapids Camp Lodge. While I have only been…
I just saw a bunch of videos that were created for the Windows Live launch last week. They are pretty cool and show some of the new and interesting features available in the products. Windows Live and Photos http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf Windows Live and Keeping in Touch http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf Technorati tags: Windows Live, Windows Live Photo Gallery,…
I arrived in Las Vegas this afternoon for the Blogworld Expo. It is the blogging conference of the year and has some seriously high profile bloggers presenting as well as exhibiting. Blogworld was a conference that I asked the Windows Live team to participate in because I knew that it was THE OPPORTUNITY to showcase…
When I heard that Radiohead was selling their album online in a bid-type of environment rather than through traditional channels like CDs and online pay-for-download, I was very interested to see how consumers respond. Radiohead fans are passionate about the music and very different (in my opinion) than the people who like music from Brittany…
This morning, I saw a video on CNN this morning of surfers riding some great waves off the coast of Long Island, NY. I sent my brother an email asking if our brother-in-law had gotten out there to test his skills. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to due to timing, but he sent me a picture…
While I am not surprised about the popularity of the Chinese Olympics, the number of people that hit the site seems crazy. Bummer for Ticketmaster and for the people that couldn’t get on. Eight million hits and 200,000 orders per second overwhelmed the technical system, Chinese news site Xinhua reported. Link to the article Technorati…
About this time last year, I got my first real taste of the restaurant quality in Seattle. The reason: Seattle’s 25 for $25 offer. This November, the restaurant program returns to Seattle but this time there are 5 more restaurants and it costs $5 more. Given the number of great restaurants that are included in…
Now that summer is over and we have had some cold and rainy Seattle winter days, I am actually getting used to the fact that Winter is coming. In addition, with each day I am getting more pumped for what is shaping up to be a ski season with lots of potential: Between Xmas and…
As any of you that read this probably know, I very rarely write about anything that is created by Microsoft unless it is significantly better than anything else out there or just really cool and useful. For that reason, I wanted to write about the new version of Live Maps. While there are many Maps…
I just saw these pics of the latest racing Ferrari – the FXX Evoluzione – on Cnet. The article also talked about Ferrari’s invitation-only FXX program. Here is a quote: The FXX program lets an elite group of Ferrari clients race and schedule private track sessions with the latest Ferrari prototype on test tracks around…