Installing Vista 64bit on my original MacBook Pro took quite a bit of work and a bit of hacking.

Thankfully, on my new Unibody 13inch MacBook Pro’s it is drop dead simple.

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Sometimes, you just have to go with the numbers.

I was recently booking a flight from Philadelphia to Dallas. On the main booking screen USAirways is nice enough to show you the On-Time estimate for each stage of the flight.

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A really interesting post on the Zoho blog, “Companies Don't Get Killed by Competition, They Commit Suicide”

My two favorite quotes.

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It is hard to believe that today marks my five year anniversary at Telligent. Next to my wife, this is by far my longest relationship that I was not born into.

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This is probably more of a wish list than predictions of what will be announced at WWDC 2009. I really have zero insight into the Apple world, but I know what I want and have a few guesses.

Here goes.

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Just incase you been living under a technology rock for the last week or so, please go check out the Google Wave demo video before continuing reading this post.

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What a spectacular quote,

But I am still not satisfied; every day I reach higher, trying to grasp the level of awesomeness that I can feel but can't recreate.

A really interesting article, The Flimsy Doorknob & A Forgettable Receipt, by Dustin Curtis.

I think his points are spot on. Stop and think about some of your recent experiences (especially bad ones). I think you will be amazed that in hindsight it is the little things that stick with you.

Last night I asked on Twitter if anyone had signed up for Pandora One and thought it was worth the $36/yr price.

Omar Shahine quickly responded that he felt it was and also said, “I consider it a donation for such an an awesome service”.  He is absolutely correct. Even if Pandora One sucked, making a donation to such a useful service is definitely worth it. So this morning I went ahead and signed up and I have to say it is an absolutely fabulous experience on a couple fronts.

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You know what they say, it only takes a spark. :)

As I mentioned before, I have fallen in love with the Spark ViewEngine. It is a very nice mix of power and simplicity. I also been spending a lot more time on cloud related initiatives, so I was bummed to learn Spark could not be used on Azure (compute) since it requires full trust (and Azure initially had a no concept of trust levels, it only had one limited trust level).

Fortunately for me (and hopefully you) one of the many Azure Mix announcements was support for Full Trust. What this means is that you can now easily use Spark on Azure. All you need to do complete the following two steps.

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