George Sudarkoff

No blogging

I had been quiet for the last couple of months. There are couple of reasons for that. First, about seven weeks ago I accepted a position of a Member of Technical Staff with VMware and moved back to Silicon Valley -- these past couple of months were quite busy. Second, I cannot find a good unobtrusive and reliable way to post to my blog. For short blurbs, I want to be able to do it from anywhere, but using my cellphone is too inconvenient (I abandoned my PDA a few years ago). I could use Google Docs, but (1) it doesn't work with Safari and (2) I wasn't able to make it post to my MovableType-based blog. I also want to be able to "reply" to other people's blog posts on my own blog, but trackbacks seem to have disappeared from all but a few blogs. Third, I had been working on a few longer articles and I realized that (1) I don't want to mix meaningless musings with longer better thought out pieces on the same blog and (2) I don't know how to tell if the article is finished, so I keep revising it over and over and over.

Any words of advice for me? :)

Office 2007 "kill switch"

Yes, there is an Office 2007 'kill switch'

Ever innovative Microsoft just announced the plans for introducing yet another reason for their users to leave (or at the very least not to upgrade) - pirated versions of Microsoft Office 2007 will switch into "reduced-functionality mode" in which users will not be able to create new documents or edit the existing ones.