Brad Myers - Get Your Geek On

So I was checking on a domain availability for a co-worker.. http://www.rocks.com. Turns out, rocks.com is owned by Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie. Ok..interesting. Then I peruse his page and find some links to labs.live.com. I'm a big fan of the live.com personalized pages (love the pop-outs for content), but hadn't check out the labs portion of live. On a side note, if you are going to keep contending that you aren't competing with Google, perhaps you should find some different prefixes for your portals, like labs.google.com which has been around for years. But the point of this article is to check out this link. http://preview.local.live.com/ It's good idea..just implemented in a strange.. scary.. weird way. I do like that local.live.com (again..stealing from google in their local.google.com) now has updated traffic reports.

In a side note, I'll be installing Vista Beta 2 and Office 2007 Beta 2 later tonight. I'll let you all know how it turns out. According to Paul Thurott, Beta 2 isn't yet a viable XP replacement.. but I'll give it a shot.