Vikram’s “Muse”

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

Monkeying with IE

Not like IE's popularity hasn't made it the favorite target of script kiddies... but here is what could be termed as "Greasemonkey for IE". I would love to hear Josh's comments on the security issues around this. From the page: Trixie is to Internet Explorer as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It ...

Have you seen Redfin?

John showed me RedFin friday. Looks like maps and interactivity powered by Flash. Nice use of various hot technologies.

Virtual Earth “Launch”

Here is a quick update... I have started at Microsoft (details later), endured a ton of dark side jokes (thanks to starting around episode III release), gone through my first re-org and ended up adding a second asset to an already fantastic role. All the details will have to ...

Adam is Trying to Relax - Browsers aren’t letting him…

This resonates big time with what I have been thinking about in terms of browser and related technology. Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled Firefox (finally) gave me undo in my < textarea >, which is tremendously useful. Please don't stop there. Let me save. Actually, save automatically for me. Let me search. ...

January 24th 2008
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Troubleshooting driver problems in Vista

This is a problem that has confounded and caused no end of trouble to me and several friends/colleagues. Now that I seem to have found a fairly reliable solution, I wanted to highlight it here. Problem Symptom: Vista fails to find drivers for devices - typically USB devices. Often these ...
November 26th 2007
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Forever Star

As someone said on TV recently, "I don't want to give an eulogy because that would be acknowledging that he is gone" - I have been trying to block out this reality for a little while now. The last email I got from the man who I have often ...
September 18th 2007
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All ur Translation are belong to Us

Mike tells me that this is what he translates every time he finds a new translation service. So, I decided that I would run it through the new translator service that went into silent beta recently. German: Alle ur Übersetzung sind gehören uns Arabic: كلّ [أور] ترجمة ينتسب إلى نا French: Toute la ...
June 2nd 2007
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Business Models for India - Recycling

There are two kinds of disappointments to those with an entrepreneurial bent. One - the "in retrospect" kind and another - the "ideated but un-executed" kind. The first kind is where you look at something that just happened and say "that is so obvious", and the second kind is where ...
May 30th 2007
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Surface is here!

Sometimes some products need little introduction or explanation. They easily capture your imagination and make you say - "I want one!" Here is one such truly cool product from Microsoft: Microsoft Surface.  Lately there has been a TON of news around touch computing TED Multitouch demo, iPhone and so forth. I ...