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Le Web buzz starts…

It’s becoming somewhat of ritual. Each autumn the weather get colder and the updates about Le Web start. I have my ticket already and it makes for something to look forward to!!!

“Looking forward to kicking ass at #LeWeb in December #Paris cc: @loic http://bit.ly/1gJCAy“

via Facebook | Hugh MacLeod.

New book titles…

It’s a lovely idea. Take old classic books and give them new titles.

http://yourmonkeycalled.com/post/185927647/book-titles-if-they-were-written-today

What is even better is that some of the comments are better than the original post. I vote for…

Old: Richard III

New: R3: Judgment Day

Windows Live Sync and Mac OS X Leopard…

Since FolderShare joined the Windows Live family it’s been a downhill slope.

First there were outages, then the site redesign (a massive downgrade) and now this…

Windows Live Sync and Mac OS X Leopard

It’s almost as if they don’t want it to work.

Get the code out of the door quickly…

I’ve said it before but it’s worth repeating.

Microsoft has one major issue; and only one. The speed that they can get code and functionality out of the door. There seems to be some serious process issues when competitors are realeasing functions at twice the speed of the market leader.

“Microsoft is apparently going to counter the Android and iPhone offensives on the mobile market with a new strategy: confusion. The company will allegedly continue to sell its increasingly less relevant Windows Mobile 6.5 for a lower price when it launches version 7 in the fourth quarter of 2010.

The fourth quarter of 2010? I mean, does Redmond expect Google and Apple to go on a yearlong vacation? No wonder Microsoft is becoming irrelevant on the mobile platform. As I have pointed out in the past,Android is going to kill Windows Mobile.”

Microsoft’s Mobile Strategy: Irrelevance

The Now Show goes global?

The debate in the US has noticed that the rest of the world is watching (mainly in amazement!)

Britons Unite To Defend Their National Health Service | Crooks and Liars.

How long till they find this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00lyx3g

Go 7 minutes in!

Novels are difficult…

And I thought that it was just me.

Big Contrarian ? Never new enough.

I’ve never been a great fiction reader but in the last 3/4 years my reading offline has dropped to almost zero. Funny thing is that I miss it I just seem incapable of actually getting that calm. Glad to hear that it’s just not me!!!