Laughing Meme » microsoft http://laughingmeme.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:12:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “If I want to beat Google? I would throw everything I have got at an AdSense killer.” http://laughingmeme.org/2006/04/17/if-i-want-to-beat-google-i-would-throw-everything-i-have-got-at-an-adsense-killer/ http://laughingmeme.org/2006/04/17/if-i-want-to-beat-google-i-would-throw-everything-i-have-got-at-an-adsense-killer/#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:57:00 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=3328 Short, interesting take on how to build a better AdSense

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/04/kill-google-vol-3.html

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2006/04/17/if-i-want-to-beat-google-i-would-throw-everything-i-have-got-at-an-adsense-killer/feed/ 0 The Other Firefly, Phoenix Like? http://laughingmeme.org/2005/12/06/the-other-firefly-phoenix-like/ http://laughingmeme.org/2005/12/06/the-other-firefly-phoenix-like/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:01:00 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=3142 I’ve been telling myself that someday I’m going to make it to Scott’s NY New Tech Meetup, ever since he mentioned it this Summer.

But boy do I wish I was going tonight apparently there will be a demo of

Firefly (decision-support application)

Um, you mean like Pattie Maes’ Firefly, that hottest, sexiest, most buzzworthy, proto-dotcom spin off of the Media Lab? (complete with rockstar founder). The one that was bought, and killed by Microsoft?

Of course, now in our wiser, more cynical age, who would be dumb enough to pour their metadata into a closed system? To trust a company to safeguard the gates of their community?

Just kidding.

Also demoing: apap.us, locl.us and movie.us (Apparently .us has arrived. Or at least someone is hoping so.)

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2005/12/06/the-other-firefly-phoenix-like/feed/ 0 Explorer Destroyer – Switch to Firefox, Make money from Adsense http://laughingmeme.org/2005/11/09/explorer-destroyer-switch-to-firefox-make-money-from-adsense/ http://laughingmeme.org/2005/11/09/explorer-destroyer-switch-to-firefox-make-money-from-adsense/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:57:00 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=3100 I’m debating if this is cool, obnoxious, or both

http://www.explorerdestroyer.com/

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2005/11/09/explorer-destroyer-switch-to-firefox-make-money-from-adsense/feed/ 0 Windows Calendar in Windows Vista Build 5231 http://laughingmeme.org/2005/10/26/windows-calendar-in-windows-vista-build-5231/ http://laughingmeme.org/2005/10/26/windows-calendar-in-windows-vista-build-5231/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:30:00 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=3063 Wow, they’ll almost replicate all the features of Apple’s intentionally crippled calendaring toy

http://www.longhornblogs.com/bleblanc/archive/2005/10/19/15005.aspx

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2005/10/26/windows-calendar-in-windows-vista-build-5231/feed/ 0 Microsoft Team RSS Blog : The orange icon… http://laughingmeme.org/2005/10/12/microsoft-team-rss-blog-the-orange-icon/ http://laughingmeme.org/2005/10/12/microsoft-team-rss-blog-the-orange-icon/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:59:48 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=3048 I like a design explication as much as the next guy, but couldn’t they have just said ‘We copied the Firefox icon’, and be done with it?

http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/10/08/478505.aspx

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2005/10/12/microsoft-team-rss-blog-the-orange-icon/feed/ 0 Stop the presses, Dave Winer makes sense, sounds reasonable http://laughingmeme.org/2005/06/28/stop-the-presses-dave-winer-makes-sense-sounds-reasonable/ http://laughingmeme.org/2005/06/28/stop-the-presses-dave-winer-makes-sense-sounds-reasonable/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:04:00 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=2959 Takes Apple to task for their lame podcasting extension. They make MSFT look clueful. (Yes prefixes are syntactic sugar, but that isn’t how they’re used in the RSS community)

http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/06/28#a682

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2005/06/28/stop-the-presses-dave-winer-makes-sense-sounds-reasonable/feed/ 0 Microsoft intimidated into dropping support of WA sexual orientation anti-discrimination bill http://laughingmeme.org/2005/04/25/microsoft-intimidated-into-dropping-support-of-wa-sexual-orientation-anti-discrimination-bill/ http://laughingmeme.org/2005/04/25/microsoft-intimidated-into-dropping-support-of-wa-sexual-orientation-anti-discrimination-bill/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:56:33 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=2926 Bill supported by an amazing coalition of activists, not to mention Boeing, Nike, Coors, Washington Mutual, Hewlett-Packard, Corbis, and Qwest

http://newframes.typepad.com/new_frames/2005/04/microsoft_caves.html

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2005/04/25/microsoft-intimidated-into-dropping-support-of-wa-sexual-orientation-anti-discrimination-bill/feed/ 0 Is anyone else scared that the guy who developed IE and Outlook is hacking biology these days? http://laughingmeme.org/2004/09/20/is-anyone-else-scared-that-the-guy-who-developed-ie-and-outlook-is-hacking-biology-these-days/ http://laughingmeme.org/2004/09/20/is-anyone-else-scared-that-the-guy-who-developed-ie-and-outlook-is-hacking-biology-these-days/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:25:33 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=2544 Imagine fatal biological viruses that can infect the entire susceptible population in 30 minutes and can be contracted by making eye contact.

http://www.twliterary.com/rnaam.html

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2004/09/20/is-anyone-else-scared-that-the-guy-who-developed-ie-and-outlook-is-hacking-biology-these-days/feed/ 0 Those MS guys really know how to throw themselves behind standards. http://laughingmeme.org/2004/09/03/those-ms-guys-really-know-how-to-throw-themselves-behind-standards/ http://laughingmeme.org/2004/09/03/those-ms-guys-really-know-how-to-throw-themselves-behind-standards/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2004 21:43:17 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=2506 Microsoft Music Store RSS has 3 errors per item

http://dannyayers.com/archives/2004/09/03/msn-top-100/

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2004/09/03/those-ms-guys-really-know-how-to-throw-themselves-behind-standards/feed/ 0 Subversion, blargh http://laughingmeme.org/2004/08/09/subversion-blargh/ http://laughingmeme.org/2004/08/09/subversion-blargh/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:46:31 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=880 Having spent the morning playing with Subversion, I’m going to take the name at face value and assume it’s really a very subtle plot to kill open source productivity, and will hence forth be referring to it as “cointelpro” instead.

update: I confess I was wrong, anything you say, now please just put away the hot irons. Having been told by all my nearest and dearest exactly how wrong I am, I confess, there were really 4 fingers, my memories to the contrary were faulty. I’ll swear off tech blogging (burying it certain fathoms beneath the earth no less), and go back to posting pictures of fluffy kittens, and unsubstaniated Oregonian rumors.

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http://www.openoffice.org/

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2004/07/14/openofficeorg-it-just-works/feed/ 0 apparently *all* internet explorer [dhtml] apps leak memory http://laughingmeme.org/2004/06/09/apparently-all-internet-explorer-dhtml-apps-leak-memory/ http://laughingmeme.org/2004/06/09/apparently-all-internet-explorer-dhtml-apps-leak-memory/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2004 23:01:35 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=2315 due to poor javascript model

http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-June/000016.html

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http://blog.simon-cozens.org/bryar.cgi/id_6724

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