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According to the rumor mill, the next version of Windows, currently codenamed Longhorn, will be officially called Windows Vista.
I'm guessing the guy who did Microsoft's product naming finally retired (or maybe Google hired him), and it seems Microsoft replaced him with his younger, more clever brother who can think of monikers beyond his older brother's limit of two seemlingly random letters.
Old and busted
Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows XP
New hotness
Windows Vista
If this name is announced, I'm guessing a release date will also be announced.
The recent storms caused a tree a block from my place to fall. It took the powers line with it, breaking the telephone pole and knocking out power in the neighborhood for at least 12 hours - it's still out now. It's increadably hot and humid today, and after only a few hours was getting that way in the house, so I'm enjoying power and air conditioning at my parents' place. Sweet wonderful A/C.
What's a Neutrophil? My brother has the info. (Funny).
From PodPad:
From Scoble:
BBC: Blogs respond to London blasts.
BBC: Mobile networks bear blast strain.
Wikinews has excellent coverage.
Blog Herald: Blogs covering the frontline.
More from Scoble:
Search Engine watch has news sources for London bombings.
BBC News: In pictures: London blasts.
The Times (of London): Timeline of blasts.
The Command Post has a bunch of links.
BBC News: Eyewitnesses tell of travel hell.
There's a Flickr photo page here.
More from Scoble:
More links on London bombings:
FoxNews: Terrorists Strike London with Series of Blasts.
CNN: London bombs kill at least 33.
My former boss, Lenn Pryor, is in London and his Skype name says "I'm OK." His report is on his blog.
CNN: Minute-by-minute account.
MSNBC: 33 confirmed dead in London blasts.
Terrorism Unveiled: Terrorist Attack in London.
Guardian Unlimited: 33 dead in London blasts.
More shortly.
And even more from Scoble:
Dave Winer's blog. He has links to the BBC articles.
Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit. Tons of links.
IMAO.
From somebody's cameraphone at Kings Cross:
If you're in London now: London Underground realtime suspensions and disrutpions.
After Gnomedex I visted friends at Microsoft, and took a tour of the Microsoft Museum. I visit my friends at Microsoft about once every year or so, but the museum has always been closed for renovations (got to keep it up to date, right?). Finally it was open while I was there and I these are the the photos.
If you're interested in photos of the rest of the Microsoft campus, check out my other album, Microsoft Campus Tour, which I took on a previous visit.
I was up till 5am reading blog entries last night. I went through 3000 entries in about 12 hours, including breaks and getting other chores done like eating.
Short story:
The second day of Gnomedex Steve Rubel, a blogging superstar, was sitting in front of me.
Finally, I thought, I'm going to see how this superman of bloggers manages to read so many blogs, blog about the best of what he finds, and get other work and email done at the same time.
My discoveries never happened, because instead, Steve worked on a PowerPoint presentation, which he and Chris Sloop, founder of WeatherBug, presented later that afternoon. It was on PR and Blogging, and it had everybody talking.
Steve Rubel's blogging productivity continues to be a closely guarded secret that I have not deciphered, and in all likeliness, Dan Brown may feature in his next best seller novel.
I downloaded Skype when Scoble first blogged about it on September 12, 2003. I didn't use it because I was afraid - it came from the same team that brought us the spyware/adware hell called Kazaa.
At Gnomedex I was one of a few people that didn't use Skype. Arieanna Foley of Blogaholics and BloggingHelp said she gets all of consulting jobs through Skype. KK+ of Bryght asked me what my Skype address was. That was it. I finally installed it.
My user account is dylan_greene.
Then things went bad... I was going to have it import my Outlook 2003 contacts, but instead I got this fun error:
Access violation at address 00BD3F80 in module 'Skype.exe'. Read of address 049BC000.
What does that mean? What am I supposed to do?
I'm going to try this (conflict with DEP - Data Execution Prevention - the only match on Skype's suppot site), but it requires a reboot, which I don't feel like doing. I already rebooted once this quarter.
Skype (or Windows, not sure who is really responsible for the error message) - can you make your error text a tad more understandable? Thanks!