Category: web

02/01/08 09:06 - 30ºF - ID#43125

Microsoft will take over yahoo?!

"We discussed a number of alternatives ranging from commercial partnerships to a merger proposal, which you rejected," Microsoft told Yahoo in a letter.

"While a commercial partnership may have made sense at one time, Microsoft believes that the only alternative now is the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo that we are proposing," it said.

I knew this was going to happen. Semmel is leaving

and (e:ajay) is going to end up working for microsoft!

jim writes at 04:02:55 02/01/08 - Comment #31180: One benefit for us, as programmers, is that Microsoft would finally employ people who get the web. I'm hoping the thousands of web designers and developers that would become Microsoft employees would kick the ass of the IE team.

MS cares more about intranets then the internet and maybe that'll change. Then again the music and product divisions of Sony have been at each others throats for years, so maybe the web people at Yahoocrosoft would just end up similarly locked down.

jim writes at 02:11:38 02/01/08 - Comment #31176: It's hard to see what this will bring either party. If Yahoo hasn't been able to realize success (in terms of market perception - no denying they are successful in many ways) through their vision of the web, they're not going to do any better being dragged down by Microsoft's need to protect its cash cows - Windows and Office.

I see a chimera forming that is going to take years to straighten out and make fit well. This is Microsoft's one chance to buy their way back into paid search, and it seems like a pretty risky thing. All the press release talks about is synergy. And we know how well that goes... AOL/Time Warner.

Microsoft's new MSN Live Yahoo Personalized Home Page Search! (TM)

It's going to be a weird day when yahoo.com redirects to live.com.

drew writes at 11:23:47 02/01/08 - Comment #31156: If this goes through I will finish my cup of google kool-aid (I've already started drinking it) and switch my yahoo mail/calendar account to gmail. Microsoft has frustrated me too much.

mrdeadlier writes at 11:19:56 02/01/08 - Comment #31154: Someday we'll drive our Microsoft to the Microsoft to get more Microsoft.

ajay writes at 10:36:41 02/01/08 - Comment #31148: Too early to call...

HotMail was bought for $400M ; this is 110x bigger than that. There is no way that Microsoft will insist on converting our hundreds of thousands of servers to Windows; they might as well just put that $44B in a pile and light it.

(e:paul) , Semel wasn't doing anything anyways, so his departure doesn't mean much.

Interesting times ahead... :-)

jim writes at 09:49:01 02/01/08 - Comment #31142: Great. Microsoft is going to own Flickr now.

What I don't get is how the technology will be merged. It took MS like 3 or 4 years to migrate Hotmail off Unix to MS servers. How many decades is it going to take to transition Yahoo from PHP to .NET/C#? Yuck. Microsoft will end up choking on that one.

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Category: food

01/31/08 01:26 - 22ºF - ID#43109

Zhangs's Buffet

I wentto Zhang's buffet on union with some of my coworkers tdoay. We saw an estrip bumper sticker in the parking lot and it turned out to be (e:umcutsaniflush) and (e:leetee) who are going onh a cruise. I am so jealous. I want to be in the sun.

This time I only ate the seafood and rice plus a chicken wing and it was much better. It would be hard to mess up mussels.

I still think their sushi is not good.

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Category: games

01/31/08 08:33 - 15ºF - ID#43107

OMFG Secondlife what happend

So yesterday (e:jim) emails me to say the SL economy has crashed

.

Then, I woke up this morning to find that someone had returned all my property form Slate. My hometown in Secondlife. I was so mad that it was gone and then I thought, wait - thats my land how did they banish my stuff from it?

Then I logged in and saw - someone seriously paid 200,000L/$700 US dollars for my remaining tiny plot of land. I can't believe it. It has had the price tag of $700 for months, maybe even a year and everyone always tried to bargain down. I refused to budge on the price thinking I would rather own the land then sell it for cheaper. Then this morning I wake up and bam. I get an email saying my shit has been returned to me by the owner of the land.

I know the secondlife economy crashed yesterday. But its still worth $700 US. This means I have made almost $2000 off this game I never even play. Should I cash out or re-invest in the long term. I think I might just cash out. I figure if I ever want back in I could just buy some land.

You have sold L$209530 for a total of US$732.59 using LindeX. Your Second Life account will be credited the net proceeds.

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Category: food

01/30/08 11:13 - 21ºF - ID#43105

Sushi at Kuni's To Go

:enknot and I went to lunch at Kunis

again today. I freakin love their food. It is so tasty.

I got tuna and yellow tail rolls

I really like their wakame salad.

This squid was really yummy and really cool looking.

The marekerel was exactly the type I like. I would suggest theirs definately.

Everything was perfect as always. They really just have the best Sushi in town. It is, however, a most expensive lunch if you are not getting the Bento box. I seriously think my lunch came to $19.00. Seeing as I barely eat out anymore - I am going to jusify that.

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Category: kenmore

01/30/08 11:11 - 21ºF - ID#43104

At the denist in Kenmore

Totally unrelated. Yeserday, I was in Kenmore for the dentist and I tooka couple pics of the trip. Yes, officially pet lover's paradise is closed. It looks like it was closed for a long time and i just never noticed. Does anyone else remember the monkey from in there that everyone said hey gave lsd too? Was that an urban legend or can someone substantiate that store.

The one thing about Kenmore is that everytime I return I am awe struck by its natural beauty.

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Category: computers

01/30/08 10:53 - 21ºF - ID#43103

Nokia is my new Apple

After a long stint with loving apple stuff I now love nokia

stuff better. I wonder if they will ever make a nokia computer that I could need. I love how international they are

THis phone

i seriously like a digital camera/phone combo. It has a freakin 5P camera. I think they are going for phone/camera what apple did for the phone/music player.

Whats really going on in this one

It reminds me so much of art school meets commercial space.

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Category: mobile

01/30/08 09:42 - 21ºF - ID#43101

quick post

Just testing out estrip on opera mini. damn thumb typing sucks! but it lets you upload images. not sure why it makes them so darn tiny as the phone can do 1600x1200

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Category: computers

01/30/08 05:35 - 20ºF - ID#43098

Web Stack

This isn't exactly the web stack I expected to work on, lol but it works.

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Category: buffalo

01/29/08 11:46 - 44ºF - ID#43088

Matthew at home on Linwood

Here is a pic I took of (e:matthew) today using the nokia 7900. It ttakes 2 megaapixel images but I usually just take them at 640x480. It also lets you take videos and use them for ringtones.

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Category: buffalo

01/29/08 08:32 - 44ºF - ID#43086

Taking the bus to the dentist

With wireless broadband and my nokia 810, taking the bus is pleasant. I took it to my dentist in Kenmore near Sheridan. Unfortunately, the bus was only the stupid Kenmore line one and my dentist was near Sheridan. It was great chatting with (e:hodown) on IM the whole time. I sent her pics from Kenmore along the way. It was so weird to be back in tthe old hood, running through the streets with (e:hodown), even if she was really in NYC.

The online metro system is so dumb. Its all in PDF. Luckily, my nokia 810 reads PDFs so I saved all the schedules while on the bus. Who has mobile access to PDFs besides me. I think i might put up a better site tonight.

Pet lover's paradise is closed. I wonder what happend to the monkey?