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May 29

livechronicles.spaces.live.com

LiveChronicles launched!

I haven't been blogging to this site for close to two months now but because of good reasons. I've been working with various teams to get more content on a Canadian WL blog and the net result of it is the Live Chronicles. Instead of maintaining by me and myself, this new blog will be maintained by a wide range of WL experts and you can expect better contents and more frequent postings.

The site is http://livechronicles.spaces.live.com. This site will be decommissioned in a few months. See you there in the new blog!

February 16

MSN Soapbox beta is open to public

Since 3 days ago, the MSN SoapBox beta has been released to the public! The interface is slick! From the flash enabled menu bar to the asynchronous media streaming and browsing, all the way to the tagging and comment system, everything just works and with a lot of styles too! Now you might think I said all these cause I work for Microsoft, and you can think whatever you want, just I urge you to try out the product yourself http://soapbox.msn.com. Trying uploading, searching, streaming at the same time and I hope you would be as impressed as I was. I've also embedded a random sample video from soapbox in this post.

A little disclaimer though, this is just a random video. I don't hold any grudge against Mac :) I just found this guy really animated.

Video: Why Mac Sux

Series of Tubes in Gears of War

Yeah I know this is an old joke, reading on the thread from below drove me to dig up this series-of-tubes joke once again, and to my surprise, I did find something that's quite interesting...

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Gears of War

The phrase pops up as a joke in the Xbox 360 game Gears of War as an unlockable achievement. To unlock the "A Series of Tubes" achievement, one must host and complete 50 ranked matches.

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Seems like this joke is going to hang around for a little longer. And here is the original thread that I was referring to:

Feed: The Globe and Mail - Geekwatch
Posted on: February-15-07 4:38 PM
Author: Mathew Ingram
Subject: Block those Intarweb tubes!

U.S. Senator Ted Stevens has already achieved a certain kind of blogosphere and Internet infamy for his comments about teh Internets being "a series of tubes" (click here to watch a dance-video remix of his address to the Senate). Now, he seems to want to compound that infamy by[amp]nbsp;passing legislation - Follow link to read full post