Microsoft 30 years ago and today

By Quintin Riis | Jun 22, 2008

The left photo above is now somewhat famous.  It’s a picture of the Microsoft team in 1978, taken right before they moved their offices from Alberqueque to Seattle.
Thirty years later, the group has come together for another photo.
Read the full story over at NewsWeek.com
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Important Update On June Blog Promotion!

By Quintin Riis | Jun 21, 2008

June 21st, barely more than a week left to get your name in the drawing for the 22″ monitor I’m giving away.
The winner will be drawn by the random.org random number generator, and announced here.  You’ll need to claim your prize within five days or I will select another winner.

There’s no strings, no hidden catches, […]

Win a Market Leverage Bag of Stuff

By Quintin Riis | Jun 16, 2008

John Chow is giving away a bag of goodies from www.marketleverage.com.

The bag contains:

Flip Video Camera
$200 Amex Rewards Card
Combination Pen / USB flash drive
iPod Nano

To enter for your chance to win, just head over to his blog, and post a comment on this entry.
You can also write about it on your own blog for an additional […]

Speed up application load time in Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron using prelink: HOWTO and benchmarks

By Quintin Riis | Jun 15, 2008

I’ve used prelink in the past on Ubuntu in an attempt to speed up application loading, but I’ve never actually done any benchmarks to test the results.  I decided today to run some simple benchmarks to gauge the performance increase of using prelink.
For readers too lazy to read through the entire article, I will […]

Video Post: Star Wars according to a three year old

By Quintin Riis | Jun 10, 2008

This has been around awhile, but I’m sure some people haven’t seen it yet. It’s way too cute.

This wildly popular video has prompted many video replies, among them “Star Wars according to a (twenty) three year old.

Another version with clips from the movie inserted:

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