2009 Mar 20, 6:18
IE8, the software I've been working on for some time now, has finally been released at MIX09.
As I mentioned previously, I worked on
accelerators (previously named
Activities) in IE8. Looking at the
kinds of things I blog about on the IE Blog, you might also
correctly guess that I work on the networking stack. Ask me about what else I worked on during IE8 development. The past few months were very busy for me and I'm happy this is finally out.
technical internet explorer ie8 2009 Mar 18, 9:35Team of teenagers attach camera to weather balloon and send it to space!
photography photos via:boingboing.comments science space flickr 2009 Mar 10, 5:15"We built this ... (many people wished we hadn't) ... the Rainbow Vomiting Panda of Awesomeness as an experiment (which used Ling Ling fwiw)." WTF? "It's a stream of, on average, more interesting
photos then you'd generally get from polling Everyone's photos. The quality is pretty good, the best thing to do is watch The Panda for a while and figure out if a) you want to build something with a
live stream of photos b) you can build something more better than a vomiting panda (which lets face it, it pretty hard to top!)."
humor panda flickr reference api photos 2009 Mar 7, 12:43Photos of printed all-caps hilarious signs attached to posts. Can't ignore the time travel. Or the darning!
via:swannman time-travel humor sign photo 2009 Feb 28, 2:21
Sarah and I met up with Jon, Scott, Jesse, and Grib in Las Vegas last weekend and we had a fun time.
- I got to play the Monorail Song via YouTube on my phone while on the Las Vegas Monorail rather than just chanting monorail like last
year.
- I didn't lose more gambling than I spent on food for the trip.
- Contrary to what some suggested, Sarah and I did not get married in Vegas.
- I finally saw a live Penn & Teller show and it was great!
personal2 monorail vegas penn-and-teller 2009 Feb 28, 1:55
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Penn and Teller's stage before their Las Vegas show
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On the bridge in front of Treasure Island just before the first show of 'Sirens of TI' that day.
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street vegas nevada crowd 2009 Feb 10, 9:30A flowchart to help you create a Star Trek (TOS) episode.
humor howto scifi startrek television chart visualization tv flowchart 2009 Jan 30, 5:21
Over the previous weekend Sarah and I got engaged. I had a limo pick us up and take us to a park that has a beautiful view of the Seattle
skyline where I proposed, then out for dinner and drinks including a bottle of wine for the ride back. What's the point of a limo ride if you don't drink while being driven around? It was a nice
night and only had a hint of rain when we came home. We don't yet have a date set.
engagement personal nontechnical 2009 Jan 25, 5:39
Microsoft isn't completely shielded from our economies issues but I still have a job and
still get free soda. While that's all still the case, I decided to test Sarah's claimed ability to differentiate between Pepsi, Coke, and their diet counterparts by taste alone. I poured the four
sodas into marked cups and Sarah and I each took two runs through the cups with the following guesses.
Soda Identification Challenge Results
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Drink
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Sarah
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Dave
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Guess 1
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Guess 2
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Guess 1
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Guess 2
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Coke
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Coke
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Coke
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Pepsi
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Coke
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Diet Coke
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Coke
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Diet Coke
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Pepsi
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Pepsi
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Pepsi
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Coke
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Coke
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Coke
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Diet Pepsi
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Pepsi
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Total (out of 8)
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6
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3
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As you can see from the results, Sarah's claimed ability to identify Coke and Pepsi by taste is confirmed. The first run through she got completely correct and on the second run only mistook Diet
Pepsi for Diet Coke. Her excuse for the error on the second run was a tainted palate from the first run. I on the other hand was mostly incorrect. Surprisingly though my incorrect answers were
mostly consistent between run one and two. For instance I thought Pepsi was Coke in both runs.
coke microsoft waste of soda pepsi waste of time soda 2009 Jan 13, 1:29"A crew of artists (Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epoxy) have done up a slick pop music advertisement with a Photoshop makeover. Typical Photoshop windows have been wheatpasted over the faces
of three ubiquitous top 40 music stars."
humor ad advertising streetart street art cultural-disobediance graffiti photoshop 2009 Jan 8, 5:45"It is a newly opened high-security data center run by one of Sweden's largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city... The bunker was designed to be able to
withstand a near hit by a hydrogen bomb." Wait, you mean it can't take a direct hit? Lame.
sweden photos design datacenter underground bomb technology 2009 Jan 7, 11:18
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