December 2008
18 posts
Friends in town from Boston; enjoying two btls of WA wine and a Turduceken from http://www.cajungrocer.com/. Wow, that’s a ton of poultry!
Recommendations for a Clean PC →
This past week, I finally got sick of all of the pre-installed crap on H’s laptop so I reformatted the hard drive and did a complete re-install. Here’s what I installed to get a base PC…
Engaged in a holiday tradition from my childhood in Chicago: shoveling snow ;)
Adding a "Ribbon" to www.TestMash.com →
Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a bunch of prototype’ing on http://www.TestMash.com/ and I’ve finally started re-designing the navigation to have a bit of a ribbon-style like Office…
Latest Windows Live Messenger shows links in... →
If you download the Beta version of Windows Live Essentials from http://download.live.com/, prior to December 15, now is a great time to go back and download the “beta refresh.”
Two of my…
50 New Features of Windows Live Messenger →
A new build of Windows Live Essentials (Messenger, Writer, Photo Gallery, Toolbar, etc.) is now available at http://download.live.com/ and I was especially impressed with the French marketing…
I love that the WA State Dept. of Trans. is now on Twitter as @wsdot and thanks to @wide_angle for the FYI of the accident at 40th st. exit
Messenger Beta refresh has much cooler What’s New including links to content. Get it now from http://download.live.com/ #wlive
At holiday party for @43rdDems; food good and tons of electeds including the Mayor and folks from city council, school board, and state leg.
Added Twitter to my Windows Live Profile; you can too: http://profile.live.com/webactivities/ #wlive
I wish replying to a direct message on Twitter would go to the sender by default instead of getting posted as a Tweet.
Windows Live What’s New updates: Lists and... →
Across Social Computing, people often express their personality by sharing their interests. The new Windows Live lets you do this on your profile through “Favorite Things” and on your personal…
Just successfully nominated my successor as Vice-Chair for Communications for the King County (Seattle) Democrats www.kcdems.org and @kcdems
Long but exciting week at work shipping Windows Live: http://home.live.com/ Now home making chicken matzo ball soup
How to manage What’s New with you on Windows Live →
With yesterday’s launch, tons and tons of people are using Windows Live Profiles and I’ve seen a handful of questions about how to manage what’s showing-up on in the “What’s new with <name>”…
How to add Twitter as a “web activity” on Windows Live: http://blog.robdolin.com/ #wlive
How to add Twitter to Windows Live What’s New →
One of my favorite parts of today’s release of Windows Live is the ability to add “Web Activities” to Windows Live. For example, I use Twitter and Dodgeball for updating my “status” and I have a…
The next generation of Window Live services is now available!!! Details: http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com/ #wlive