My laptop dual boots [I swap between two 80GB hard drives] between Windows XP and Novell Linux Desktop.
My XP installation has a really annoying problem with Hibernate – described in this Microsoft article. Put simply – it can’t Hibernate about 90% of the time.
There is a lengthy blog post describing the issue – and today a hotfix was released from Microsoft for the issue.
I am trying to get hold of the patch.
Firefox 1.5 should now be available.
Even mozilla.com had a makeover.
Firefox 1.5 is pretty great. My beta feedback:
Here’s to the next 100 million downloads!
A few weeks into using Google Analytics – and I must say I’m very impressed.
The data collected is stunning – for example – 70% of blog visitors use Firefox (not surprising for a tech blog)
Also currently 5% of my blog visitors are from a microsoft.com domain. A hearty hello if you’re in Redmond right now.
Now I was tracking a lot of this before – by trawling my apache logs. Google Analytics is just easier – and it produces pretty graphs!
The only downside – and I don’t recall seeing many blogs on this point yet – is the payload of the tracking technology. The analytics uses javascript – and downloads a huge 17KB of script. It’s not a lot – but the latency is noticable on some sites.
Not UPS and filtered power – more the generation.
I’ve just signed up with Utah Power for their Blue Sky program.
I join 12,000 other Utah customers – including businesses like Uinta brewing. Sounds good to me 🙂
[Edit – I made a 80×15 button for this: 
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Xbox 360’s crashing?
Lots of posts about this now – Xbox-Scene seems to have most.
[Edit – here’s a great video of a crash – thanks to Digg for that one.]
An interesting post from Ray Ozzie – one of the most influential people to have joined Microsoft in the last five years.
I’ll paraphrase by stealing quotes:
Each of us has a mix of private, shared, and public events and meetings that we’re tracking.
Some of these we edit privately and publish to others.
The most challenging calendars we deal with are those that are “shared”
It’s tough because we use a mix of different email/calendaring systems
And the same goes for contact lists.
Sounds familar!
What we really longed for was “the RSS of synchronization” … something simple that would catch on very quickly.
so we created an RSS extension that we refer to as Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE.
Fair enough – another MS developed extension. Wait – there’s more:
We’re releasing the SSE specification under a Creative Commons license – Attribution-ShareAlike. I’m very pleased that Microsoft is supporting the Creative Commons approach; you can see more about this at in the licensing section at the end of the spec.
Now that’s smart.
Hopefully some of these concepts will be adopted in main-stream products; more cutting edge projects like Hula should be all over this.
My main concern is still around security and authorisation – I don’t want to send a private calendar to a colleague – for it to be shared publically. That’s a real problem with things like this.
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