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Again I find myself blogging from a very tiny little computer. This time, while Dawngrrl and I are watching BBC’s "Big Train" sketch comedy show (which I highly recommend!) I am playing with the now completely set up MSI Wind.
After digging into the Asus Eee PC and realizing Best Buy’s advertised specs were incorrect, [...]

I am typing this on a possibly cramped keyboard. It’s actually touch type capable after I made a little modification to the keyboard layout. By default it has an up arrow where your right shift could be and I was screwing up all over the place.
After a quick key swap and a key re-mapping, [...]

I work for Microsoft, you probably already know that. I also carry a Macbook Pro and own two Mac Desktops. So yea, I like Macs, and I am probably going to take my snarky ass down to the Bellevue Apple Store tomorrow to buy a new one (with the Microsoft discount of course!)

That being said, [...]

There is nothing worse than needing that file you left sitting on your desktop at home and having to drive home to get it. I have seen countless solutions over the years from Norton’s PCAnywhere to Go2MyPC, and more recently the beta of Mesh and Apple’s MobileMe.
All have had their problems, but last night I [...]

Everyone is upset. Well, that is if everyone is about 1% of iPhone/iPod Touch users. In January Apple was claiming they had already sold 4 million iPhones, not to mention millions of iPod Touches I am sure. So let’s say conservatively that there are 5 million devices in the wild. and we’ll take off [...]

So you live in a Mac/PC hybrid environment and you regularly have to share files between them, right? Well, I don’t think it’s that uncommon, and there are several ways to tackle this problem, but I thought I would share with you my approach.
First we have to start out with a little bit of [...]

There are several like me at Microsoft. Some more extreme, some less, and there are also those there that would like to hang me for my transgressions. (right Scott?) The truth remains that I work at as an Engineer at Microsoft and most of my home computing is done on a Mac.
Of course I am [...]