Daily Archives: December 22, 2005

MSN Messenger

The company I work for has recently been very pushy about insisting that people use MSN Messenger as the only “approved” IM service. I had been proxying through IMSmarter, until they went belly up last week.

So this week I am using MSN Messenger v7.5, and finding it to be… adequate. But a coworker was able to figure out how to solve my biggest irritation: That damned tab bar on the left side! By default you can’t do a thing to modify it, and it’s just in the way and slowing things down. But she figured it out:

go to tools–>options–>security–> then select ‘this is a shared pc don’t display my tabs”

And thus, the thrice damned tabs from hell are banished!

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How not to sell a new product

SageTV has a new hardware product that I’m interested in, a Media Extender box to get content from a PC with the SageTV software loaded up to your living room without having to have a noisy PC next to the TV.

The problem is that there is absolutely NO information about exactly what it can do. Here’s what I know from their website: It displays stuff on some sort of television. It has an ethernet port and needs to be connected to a wired network. It costs $99.

How can they possibly be thinking that they are going to sell _any_ of these to anyone actually interested in putting one of these into their home theater system? Does it support HD? Does it have digitical audio connectors? What kind of video connectors does it have? Who was the idiot who thought this was all we needed to know?

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Mint soda!

Al Sicherman reports in the Star Tribune a new mint flavored commercial soda, called Snow, available from metro area Kowalski’s. I’ll be hunting down a bottle or 3 today.

A google search did turn up at least one person who wasn’t quite so happy with his experience with a bottle of it..

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