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Back before the invention of the printing press my great, great, great grandfather came to the United States from Bavaria. His name was August Kindl. At Ellis Island the immigration officials added the 'e'...hence my family's name. We pronounce...
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This was my first Kindle book. That's right Charlie Kindel bought a Kindle. I have to say it's getting annoying having everyone saying my name... Here's my quick review of Halting State by Charles Stross ... The big idea is an interesting...
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Today, instead of being the GM for Windows Home Server, I was simply a user... For the last two weeks my wife has been giving me the gears because the voicemail attachements from Vonage refused to play in Outlook on her computer. It was one of those weird...
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Somewhere Henk de Koning unearthed a video of me taken 10 years ago yesterday touting The Component Object model . Back then I was "the COM guy" and I had hair. Egads. " Don blogged about a video of Gudge explaining COM. This reminded...
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In 1987 I was an intern at IBM Federal Systems Division in Manassas, VA. I was working on testing the software for the AN/BQQ-5D bow-mounted spherical array sonar system for the SSN 688 Class (Los Angeles) fast attack nuclear submarines. This was shortly...
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Late last year I "discovered" Karl Schroeder when I read Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga . Recently he released the 2nd book of this series titled Queen of Candesce: Book Two of Virga and I finished it this weekend. Like the first book I thoroughly...
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Via my regular browsing of blog searches for Windows Home Server related stuff I came across this poor guy's extremely sad story of data loss. http://adams-allegory.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-lost-everything.html First connection: He should have had...
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Johnny Mnemonic, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Burning Chrome. All phenomenal stories. Some of my favorite reads. The Difference Engine & Pattern Recognition: I never finished them. They just didn't resonate with me. But I still will buy anything William...
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I like to like things somewhat off the beaten path. But when asked what my favorite movie of all time is, like almost everyone else I know who has even a smidgen of taste, I say " Blade Runner ". No need for me to wax poetic about how great...
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09-22-02 107.jpg Originally uploaded by ckindel I just updated my Windows Home Server with Ed Halloway's PhotoSync Beta 2 . This Add-in for Windows Home Server automatically ensures that all photos stored in a particular folder on your home server...
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I've always been a huge fan of Robert Ludlum. I started reading his books when I was in middle school. I don't think the Bourne trilogy are his best works. I think The Osterman Weekend was my favorite. But with the Bourne Ultimatum coming out...
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I've been quiet on my blog because I have been waiting to get it upgraded to CS2007. Thanks to Kevin Harder's help I finally got it done. I will be tweaking the look and feel for those of you who do not use a reader, but for now this is what you...
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Soma's post announcing Popfly got me thinking. He uses the word "evolution". I say it's a revolution. Over 25 years ago I was part of a movement in the computer industry and didn't even realize it. I was just a kid doing things on my Apple ][ I didn't...
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See my post over on the Windows Home Server team blog announcing the availabilty of the Windows Home Server SDK!
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I'm getting old and I think some of this newfangled technology stuff is beyond me. But that doesn't stop me from trying to understand (and use it). I learn by doing. I can't learn by reading. So I started blogging mostly to learn how blogs and blogging...
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