Contents tagged with General
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Tesco's UK - only 3,000 XBOX 360's at launch....!!!
Just been told by a member of staff of Tesco, here in the UK that there's only around 3,000 XBOX 360's in Britain. I'm definitely guessing he meant 3,000 XBOX 360's at launch with Tesco's, which seems like an incredibly small amount for such a big superstore.
I phoned a big Tesco Extra's store in Swansea, Wales. They only had 11 XBOX 360's in! And people had been waiting for them from 6'o clock...
Surely MS must be putting some pressure on the production of these units! Get on with it! If you want to win the battle with Sony's PS3, better increase production! Sounds like the demand is enormous...despite the rumours of crashes and BSOD's etc.
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The pollution on the main weblogs.asp.net feed...
When I go through the main feed here on weblogs.asp.net, the last thing I'm looking for is:
- Posts in any other language but English. I'm saying that as a Dutch native speaker.
- Simply regurgitated posts from (wait for it...) weblogs.asp.net!!! Sometimes it even is regurgitation upon regurgitation...
- How many virtual bucks your blog is worth.
- Politics or completely unrelated things like non-technical news items. If I want to read the news, I'll check out the BBC, CNN, MSNBC and other sources, thanks.
What am I looking for? Well:
- Posts with technical content, related to Microsoft or competitive technologies.
- Techical news items, gadgets, technologies, architecture, tools; as long as it hasn't been posted or linked to before on weblogs.asp.net.
- Links to blog posts outside of weblogs.asp.net which contain content similar to the above.
I may have missed out some, please let me know your thoughts. If we all stuck to it (even only 80% of the time), the mainfeed would be much, much cleaner.
I guess having global categories when posting, and the ability to exclude global categories on the mainfeed and for the RSS feeds (personalized setting) would help. Anyone know whether this exists in CS 2.0?
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PhotoCritters.com
I've launched the very first stage of my Photography Critiques community website, PhotoCritters.com.
People that are interested can reserve their spot in the initial beta program, which is limited to 1,000 beta users.
If you're interested in photography, please have a look.
Cheers!
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Launch 2005 - where's the UK site?
Some people have been posting the links to the Launch 2005 events for North America.
I'm looking for the equivalent UK registration site...
Anyone who can help me out here? And it it's simply not up there, when will it be?
Cheers!
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MSN Search textbox: make the thing wider!
How annoying is that little MSN search input textbox. Especially if you specify a literal string query which contains several words and combine this with some other logical AND or OR search terms.
Just quadruple its width!
Google has had a decent textbox since its inception...
You'd have thought the MSN folks would have learnt something from Google by now. -
Windows Vista? How about Micrix...?
It is completely cross-compatible with Windows, other versions Linux and the Mac OS. Microsoft indemnifies you against lawsuits from companies like SCO who claim Linux infringes their copyright.
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Recruiter talk - ar5e and elbow
Came across an interesting job description for an ASP.NET developer which shows that most, if not all recruitment agencies don't have any clue what they are talking about:
"My Client has an urgent requirement for an .aspx savvy ASP.Net Developer to help out with a surge of work/projects. The successful Candidate will be able to demonstrate substantial development experience in ASP.Net & .aspx."
Hmm. So, looks like you could have ASP.NET developers who are not .aspx savvy eh? They might be just .ascx savvy. Or maybe only .asax savvy.
Anyone else out there who has come across some other hilarious job descriptions recently?
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Save Wimdows and my letter to Bill Gates
Looks like MS legal is on a mad crusade. If I don't just hand over my domain names Wimdows.net and Wimdows.com, legal action will follow.
Read all about it here: www.savewimdows.com
And find my open letter to Bill Gates here.
Why can't they just leave me alone!?! -
MSN Beta Search problems?
The new beta MSN Search site has launched.
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Webhost4Life...until things go horribly wrong...
A good colleague and friend of mine has been hosting a busy website with WebHost4Life for well over a year now. Support is good, quick and usually pretty painless.