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

Virtual Earth 3D (SpaceLand) goes live

This took a while coming but is certainly worth the wait. From the time when I saw some of the flight simulator hotshots come into the Mappoint building, mingle with the researcher superstars and stay up late night with the web & graphics junkies - I knew this would be ...

How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language

 Absolutely hilarious take on how to write code to "shoot your foot" in various programming language. Here is a taste: Assembly: You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot. After thats done, you pull the trigger, the ...

Mac Tablet at WWDC

Okay... everyone is having fun making claims about all the fun stuff coming out at WWDC. Here is my totally unsubstantiated prediction: The Mac Tablet is coming! Now that it's out of the way, I do hope they put out a Macbook Pro that's updated to Merom and with a two ...

Live Local for Outlook is here

Yet another missing piece in the location arena is here: Windows Live Local for Outlook (it used to be Location Enabled Outlook - LEO when I worked in that team) is here for you to download and enjoy.

October 28th 2008
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Quick Notes from the PDC

Great Win 7 demo. For those of us who is into UX, the new UI features are outlined here. Great Touch UI improvements. My next laptop HAS to be a convertible with multi-touch (along with the digitizer). I saw most praise from the audience for the stability ...
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 your 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 Ihre Übersetzung gehören zu uns Arabic: كل جهاز الترجمة تنتمى بنا French: Appartiennent tous votre traduction sont à ...
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 ...