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Permalink to this day Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Joe Wilcox on Microsoft Monitor:
I believe one reason for the effectiveness of the Dell and standard Media Center interfaces is the less-is-more approach. The interfaces are uncluttered and expose consumers to a confined set of functions, unencumbered of unnecessary features.

One of my ownership areas is the Settings experience in the next version of Media Center and we are working very hard to insure that less-is-more but it certainly isn't easy.
8:47:52 PM  Permalink to this item []


My hard drive crashed last night. A little chkdsk action brought it back online but regardless I spent an hour on the phone trying to get a new hard drive out of Dell but alas I was unsuccessful and will have to spend some more time on the phone tomorrow morning.

Don't do what I do. Backup your important data!. Windows really needs a completely seamless backup experience. Once I settle down here I'll setup a nice home system with a big fileserver with a RAID and install IntelliSync or something similar.
8:41:40 PM  Permalink to this item []


CNET: Judge: File sharing legal in Canada
Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, handing the record industry a sharp setback in its international fight against file swappers.

This is a big deal.

Time to move back to Canada :).
8:38:49 PM  Permalink to this item []


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