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Microsoft has made a bid to acquire Yahoo:
http://www.techmeme.com/080201/p26#a080201p26
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080201/nyf040.html?.v=101
Microsoft has developed a plan and process that will include the employees of both companies to focus on the integration of the combined business. Microsoft intends to offer significant retention packages to Yahoo! engineers, key leaders and employees across all disciplines.

In his letter to the Yahoo board, Steve […]

I suppose it’s a natural fit…  Amazon is buying Audible.  Audible provides digital audio books that you can listen to on your computer, device, or burn to CD.  I’ve been an Audible subscriber for a while.  It’s absolutely fantastic.  The only bummer is that their format is STILL not supported by Zune.  grrr…  I have […]

The Office User Interface Blog has a post (kind of old now) about the most commonly used features in Microsoft Word 2003.
Top 5 Most-Used Commands in Microsoft Word 2003

Paste
Save
Copy
Undo
Bold

Together, these five commands account for around 32% of the total command use in Word 2003. Paste itself accounts for more than 11% of all […]

I think it’s about time for a redesign for this blog. I will probably just lightly modify an existing Wordpress theme this time instead of spending a full day being a crayon (CSS editing and image manipulation). If you have a suggestion for an appropriate theme, leave it in the comments.
Also, the […]

It’s weird what you find by accident on the web sometimes…
I did a search for "stellarton youtube" today (my hometown) and discovered that they tore down my old high school.  RIP, SHS.

Some more intense demolitions:

And then there’s this one… Mulligan!

Well, January 15 has come and gone.  The domain citizenville.com is still up for grabs.  Last chance to throw your hat in the ring.
Leave a comment here telling me what you would use it for.  I’ll transfer the domain over to the person with my favourite idea.

I just gotta say that "Stranger Than Fiction" is a great movie. Watching it makes me want to bake chocolate chip cookies… 
Watch it if you haven’t.

Steve Jobs’ 2008 Macworld keynote compressed into 60 seconds courtesy of Mahalo Daily:

I just found a notebook (of mine) from 2001 with just two pages used.  The first page contains a bunch of accounts, email addresses, and URLs of interest from that time.  Here’s the breakdown:

3 of my old email addresses that are no longer valid
3 accounts for sites that no longer seem to work
5 sites that […]

Well, I’m all registered for MIX08.  Flights are booked.  Hotel is booked.

I vote that Treasure Island be the unofficial offsite Canadian MIX hotel.    It’s a 4-star hotel.  I got a room for around $120/night.  Maybe it’s the Scottish in me, but I couldn’t bring myself to pay for a room at […]