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HTML5 Slide Deck Posted

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 Posted in IE, Tech | 1 Comment »

The HTML5 slide deck I used for my BUILD Windows presentation is now available here. Besides fixing a couple bugs in my use of HTML5 History, I made a few changes to make sure it ran in all recent ...

HTML5 Demos and IE9 Launch

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 Posted in IE, Tech | Comments Off

Yesterday’s browser wars panel was a discussion rather than a presentation so we decided not to use demos.  That’s great for the panel but a few people talking about the web isn’t nearly as cool as the great things developers ...

Speaking at SxSW

Saturday, March 5th, 2011 Posted in IE, Tech | Comments Off

I’m going to SxSW for the first time this year.  Besides the obvious excitement around the festival (and my first trip to Austin), I’m excited to be part of the Browser Wars panel.  The other panelists are rather accomplished people ...

Bing it!

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Posted in Tech | Comments Off

Bing has received some great press recently, and I thought I’d share this one from TechCrunch.  If you haven’t tried Bing yet, you should.  They do a great job for all queries and an excellent job for certain ...

Download IE8!

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in IE, IE8, MIX09, Tech | Comments Off

Today we launched IE8 at MIX!  It’s been an amazing cycle and I think it’s an excellent product. Try it now: www.microsoft.com/ie8. 

Finally a solution for complicated remote controls

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Tech | 3 Comments »

Great find by Gizmodo:   Fixing Stupidity: Cheap User Interface Hack Finally Solves TV Remotes Stupidity

Evolutionary or Revolutionary?

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 Posted in Movies, Tech | Comments Off

Sarah Lacy’s TechCrunch post on the future of the Web sparked some thought on evolutionary versus revolutionary changes.  She discusses how the rate of innovation within an area decreases over time and questions if the Internet’s peak innovation rate is ...

A Disturbance in the Force

Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Music, Tech | Comments Off

It seems a different company’s setting high expectations and under delivering while the competition makes steady progress and begins attracting attention. My favorite line: Meanwhile, Zune rolls out actually ...