October 2009
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Somewhere Between Dickey and Rivière-Bleue
I swear, by all people precious to me, that this is a true story and not a tall tale. I have to say it, because you, the reader, might not believe the account or the accuracy of my memory.
My dad first took me camping when I was seven years old. Where I’m from, camping had nothing to do with RVs or tidy, civilized campgrounds, or at least when I was a kid. My dad, uncle and their...
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“Holy. Crap. I don’t think we have any unbruised skin left on our body to...”
– Anonymous Microsoft blogger Mini-Microsoft on the company’s mobile strategy. He’s getting an iPhone, by the way.
Do you have a Microsoft story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
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Windows Mobile 'Lie to Me' Edition
Last week, while watching Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s stiff introduction to Windows Phone, I wondered about his facial and body language. He didn’t exactly seem happy to be introducing Windows Phone, which launches a new brand for Microsoft and its hardware partners. The normally animated Steve seemed anything but happy to talk about Microsoft’s “cross-company...