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		<title>Post-Build notes and links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few weeks and I feel like I&#8217;m still catching up from my week at the //Build conference.  As it turns out, conferences are very busy places, and sometimes things you planned to do that week (such as, for instance, blogging) can easily fall through the cracks. In the unlikely event that anyone was looking for me specifically, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2011/10/01/post-build-notes-and-links/</link>
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		<title>//BUILD/ Windows event is just a few days away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If my Twitter stream is any indication, then I&#8217;m not the only one immensely excited for the events of the coming week.  While I enjoy what&#8217;s likely one of the last solid summer days in Seattle, some of my colleagues have already begun making their way to Anaheim, CA for this week&#8217;s BUILD event. I&#8217;m (seriously) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2011/09/10/build-windows-event-is-just-a-few-days-away/</link>
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		<title>My team for Windows 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Steven Sinofsky kicked off the Building Windows 8 blog, the successor to the excellent (in my opinion) Engineering Windows 7 blog, which was often referred to as the &#8220;E7&#8243; blog.  When the E7 blog kicked off, you may recall that Steven introduced the team, including a list of the names chosen by each feature [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2011/08/18/my-team-for-windows-8/</link>
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		<title>How to make sure your customers miss their bills.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks, Seattle City Light. Yes, that&#8217;s their e-bill notification (the only thing you get) being flagged as &#8220;very suspicious.&#8221; Their solution?  Tell customers to ignore the warnings and add their address to your e-mail service&#8217;s &#8220;allow list.&#8221;  According to the customer service rep, it&#8217;s been this way for years.  How hard can this be to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2011/08/12/how-to-make-sure-your-customers-miss-their-bills/</link>
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		<title>First look at the next version of Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone still reads this blog, they&#8217;ve probably noticed that throughout the last year or more my rate of updates has slowed to a trickle.  There are a number of reasons for that, but the largest reason is that I&#8217;ve been &#8220;heads-down&#8221; working on the most exciting and ambitious project I&#8217;ve been a part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2011/06/03/first-look-at-the-next-version-of-windows/</link>
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		<title>On GroupOn&#8217;s ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I may be going against the grain here, if the comments on GroupOn&#8217;s blog post are any indication.  But I don’t really care what GroupOn’s intentions were, to be honest. I found the ads hilarious and edgy. I also found them thought-provoking because the issues they highlighted are important ones which people (myself included) often take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2011/02/07/on-groupons-ads/</link>
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		<title>What does it mean to reverse engineer the brain?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PZ Myers takes Ray Kruzweil to task for claiming that we might be able to reverse engineer the &#8220;program&#8221; that our brain runs, and indeed make a computer-based &#8220;port&#8221; of it, sometime in the next 10 years.  He doesn&#8217;t just refute Kruzweil&#8217;s claim, he seems to be using it as evidence for his argument that Kruzweil is a moron. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2010/08/18/what-does-it-mean-to-reverse-engineer-the-brain/</link>
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		<title>On Roger Ebert, Video Games, and Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It came to my attention this afternoon that Roger Ebert, previously on record claiming &#8220;video games can never be art,&#8221; has sought to elaborate on this statement for&#8230; well, for some reason, I should think.  He builds his case as a rebuttal to Kellee Santiago&#8217;s TED talk at USC on the subject.  If this discussion interests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2010/04/21/on-roger-ebert-video-games-and-art/</link>
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		<title>When final notices aren&#8217;t very final.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was very excited to receive a message from SIRIUS Satellite Radio which was labeled as the &#8220;final notice&#8221; in their incessant attempts to sign me up after my trial subscription, which came free with my car, had expired. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn&#8217;t live up to their promise.]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2010/04/08/when-final-notices-arent-very-final/</link>
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		<title>Kindle review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I decided it was time to buy an E-book reader.&#160; I really only considered two options, the Barnes &#38; Noble Nook and the Amazon Kindle (specifically the “Kindle 2” model).&#160; I’d briefly seen each in person, but hadn’t had time to really look at or play with either of them. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2010/03/28/kindle-review/</link>
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		<title>Measuring memory usage in Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historically, measuring the amount of memory in use by a Windows system has been a somewhat confusing endeavor.  The labels on various readouts in Task Manager, among other places, were often either poorly named or simply misunderstood.  I’ll tackle a prime example of this, the “commit” indicator, later in this post.  But first, let’s look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2010/02/21/measuring-memory-usage-in-windows-7/</link>
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		<title>The so-called &#8220;God Mode&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A rather goofy &#8220;trick&#8221; has been making the rounds over the last couple days, which was described by Ina Fried on CNET as follows: By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2010/01/04/the-so-called-god-mode/</link>
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		<title>What does age mean in the tech world?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary Jo asks:  &#8220;At Microsoft, is age more than just a number?&#8221; In the responses to her post I saw a few comments along the lines of, &#8220;ageism happens, get over it.&#8221;  One commentor wrote: &#8220;Truthfully, younger Folk will just not like you, simply because of your age, and in the workplace that has insidious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2009/12/30/what-does-age-mean-in-the-tech-world/</link>
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		<title>Two weeks with a Droid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I made a rather impulsive decision to purchase a Motorola Droid with a new Verizon account.  The frustrations I’ve had with AT&#38;T have been piling up for a while now… dropped calls, slow-to-respond data services, zero service in crowded places, and horrible customer service problems (such as being lied to and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2009/12/13/two-weeks-with-a-droid/</link>
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		<title>New Google home page.  Is this for real?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recap of what went through my mind yesterday as I read the Official Google Blog post about their new home page design and tried out the &#8220;updated&#8221; page: - Is this a joke? - This is terrible. - If this is real, why is this Google person so excited about it? - Marissa Mayer wrote the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonlive.com/2009/12/03/new-google-home-page-is-this-for-real/</link>
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