It looks like I was granted a new patent in August - for my Location Based Browser patent I filed for Microsoft. What I don't understand is why there are two patents filed with the same disclosure. The claims are slightly different between the two. Perhaps they wanted to re-write the claims and split out the original filiing into two (but were able to keep the original priority date based on my disclosure).

The Ask for Assistance steps are so cumbersome - you need remote assistance just to get someone through the process!

Startup Weekend coming to Microsoft on Aug 28th

What a bizzare state of affairs. It's legal for me to make a copy of my media, but illegal for anyone to sell me product that will allow me to do so.

Quoted: it may well be fair use for an individual consumer to store a backup copy of a personally-owned DVD on that individual’s computer, a federal law has nonetheless made it illegal to manufacture or traffic in a device or tool that permits a consumer to make such copies

Gayle Laakmann, now of EmptySpaceAds created this site (with online $25 PDF), to help people prepare for a technical interview (like Microsoft).

Microsoft's AdSense like product. Anyone using this? Are they getting competitive ad rates?

BillG's reminiscences from 1979.

Quoted: Our Gizmodo '79 celebration may have ended last week, but there's room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It's no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in:

Quoted: Learn more about the insights and analysis coming out of the Open Source Community at Microsoft.

Seriously? Microsoft put all this PR effort into a product launch and Bing.com just says "coming soon"? How is it that working in a large organization turns otherwise very smart people into idiots.