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Windows 8 & Surface are successes. Check your facts and leave your anti-MS bias at the door for once.

http://betanews.com/2013/04/24/surface-sales-soar/

I'm relieved that Windows 8 and Surface are succeeding!

To all those who augured doom for these technologies: you were / are wrong.

http://www.americanidol.com/community/choice

Looks like they're allowing International voting for Charlie vs. Audrey for a spot on the summer tour with American Idol.

That's a 100k summer job an 18 year old. Help a young musician singer out... I just wish he'd been able to play his Stratocaster and wear his rainbow psychedelic bell-bottoms.

We're having loads of fun here, dodging TV bullets and such...

Cheers!

1 hour ago, evildictait​or wrote

Actually Raymond Chen did a blog post on this just a couple of weeks ago:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/01/29/10388983.aspx

Disgusting.

Packrats leave better crap after stealing my stuff.

Charter Cable out of Burbank, CA, seems to enjoy hijacking attempts to use bing.com

It requires several trips to the search engine before Charter gives up foisting its own pathetic search page on screen.

Shouldn't bing.com have recourse to this? Anyone else have ISP shennanighans like this?

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25890552-Is-Charter-Hijacking-the-Bing-search-feature-in-IE-

11 hours ago, Laura10 wrote

That's awesome! We need to get him on Channel 9 afterwards and give us the inside scoop

Laura, that'd be great. The network he's on is pretty tight fisted about media appearances, but an interview is definitely something that will make me happy. Thanks!

Oh, apparently they've changed the nights for the boys/girls performances again this week, so Charlie will be on Wednesday night, March 6, where we can VOTE to put him into the single-elimination money rounds.

1 day ago, phreaks wrote

John, your boy is one cool cat. It's really wonderful that you have fostered and suppoprted his talent. Great job to you both!

We are cheering for him weekly in Boston.

Thanks, phreaks, Charlie performs next Tuesday, March 5th in Las Vegas and we VOTE to move him forward to the next show.

Ah, crap, I was scrolling through text messages from my ex...

6 hours ago, Harlequin wrote

No stethoscope? What's the point of becoming a doctor?

Rubber gloves.

Sven I hope you are added to my favorite technology team.

Charles I hope you have a chance to interview Sven after -wards.

Cheers! Best of the best for the best.

He told me they forgot to feed them *again* since early that morning. He blames low blood sugar on what he called a sub-par performance; shaking, etc... They cut about a minute of him working the crowd after his song - just as Randy Jackson looked down and started talking, Charlie turned his back and got the crowd engaged again to which the judge replied to his back "ok, soak it in...". Good grief, he told me that after tonight he doesn't care what the judges think since it's up for public votes from this point forward. He's on a mission, like Bilbo or something... What a fun man he has become, and he emulates Freddie Mercury's showmanship, as you can easily see.