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• Eat some food, do some good

  Dine for America : On October 5, 2005, restaurants across the country will band together in a "Dine for America" day, a national fundraising effort for the American Red Cross to help the survivors, victims, their families and other arising needs from... Posted Oct 04 2005, 09:10 PM by peter with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Everything Else

• Hotspotting in DE

  Just like New York's parks , Delaware is getting oh so much cooler by adding more Hotspots. First Wayport added a whole bunch of McDonald's locations . Now T-Mobile has hooked up several (but still not all) of the state's Starbucks locations . Are we... Posted Sep 13 2005, 07:09 PM by peter with | with no comments Filed under: Everything Else

• Who has more female developers - the gamers or the inkers?

  "An industry which celebrates violence and the exaggerated female form might expect to be an all-male domain - but a university launched a frantic search today after a prestigious new computer games degree failed to attract a single woman. The Microsoft... Posted May 10 2005, 10:02 AM by peter with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Everything Else

• Wireless and yet not connected

  Totally fun CNET article from the NY Times about the pitfalls of connecting to public hot spots and actually getting out onto the "real" and worldwide Internet. I love this "problem": In this case, some hapless individual's private Internet bubble is... Posted May 04 2005, 12:31 PM by peter with | with no comments Filed under: Everything Else

• MSN Spaces tips and tricks

  Scott Isaacs - architect for MSN's web experience products - has some great tips and tricks for MSN Spaces users on his blog , including the Blog It! button to speed up posting, and the Edit It! tool to enable some extra functionality in the post editor... Posted Dec 03 2004, 11:42 PM by peter with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Everything Else

• More Wi-Fi in the sky

  Singapore Airlines will add onboard broadband next year , including sending live TV to laptops. Pricing for unlimited use on a flight will range from $14.95 to $29.95. Sounds exciting. Remember that a lot of people prefer using tablets rather than regular... Posted Dec 03 2004, 09:57 PM by peter with | with no comments Filed under: Everything Else

• MSN Spaces oddities

  Two great stories from Boing Boing about MSN Spaces: A quick rundown of which words you can't use in your Space's name (contains some objectionable language). Complaints about invalid markup but more disturbingly, pretty shady terms of use : "For materials... Posted Dec 03 2004, 09:40 PM by peter with | with no comments Filed under: Everything Else

• Count me in for CES 2005

  Lora reminds us that CES is only a month away and mentions some interesting sessions and booths that might be interesting. There is also a discussion about a possible get together during that time frame. And Loren confirms that they are, indeed, attending... Posted Dec 02 2004, 10:52 PM by peter with | with no comments Filed under: Everything Else

• Out of cycle security bulletin - do read it

  Not to be overlooked: if you're not on Windows XP SP2 (and why not?), your IE installation may be vulnerable. Microsoft has released a security fix ahead of its scheduled monthly cycle . That usually means things are pretty serious, so take a look at... Posted Dec 02 2004, 12:10 AM by peter with | with no comments Filed under: Everything Else

• Whee, I have an MSN Space...now what?

  Robert Scoble points to coverage of the MSN Spaces launch outside of Japan, which has been already predicted for a while, and finally talked about yesterday . So, of course, I joined the rush, and you can now visit my totally blank and cookie-cutter MSN... Posted Dec 01 2004, 10:03 PM by peter with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Everything Else

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  It's almost time for the traditional sleep-inducing dinner, so I'd like to wish everyone a happy holiday, wherever (or even if) you are celebrating it. My friend here - Tabby the Turkey - needn't worry tonight: we're having duck for dinner. But he would... Posted Nov 25 2004, 01:53 PM by peter with | with no comments Filed under: Tablet PC, Everything Else