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Posts from June 2005

Microsoft and RSS

It’s really amusing how large public corporations don’t take many chances. Recently, Microsoft announced that they will be including RSS integration in Longhorn. Big deal, right? Well, the company managed to spin this announcement so it made them sound like they were doing something revolutionary. They even made T-shirts that said “Longhorn Loves RSS”. I [...]


Framingham and Bose Update

Today was my third day at Bose, and I think I am finally settling down. I am living in a duplex on Fay Road (right off 135 in Framingham). It is about 10-15 minutes to get to Bose with light traffic.
At Bose, I am a web co-op in the Electromagnetic Compatibility department (a sub-department of [...]


Who’s Hot and Who’s Not in Fantasy Baseball

Well, we are almost at the mid-season point in Major League Baseball. My Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball team is currently in 4th (out of 12) and my Sporting News Ultimate Salary Cap Baseball team is sitting in 7th (out of 16). Therefore, you may not want to take advice from me, but I would like [...]


Bose Co-op

I have just accepted a co-op position at Bose Corporation in Framingham, MA. They are in need of a co-op to undergo a web-database project to improve work processes in the design and testing department. I am counting this co-op towards my MS in Information Technology at RIT, and it is about 6 months [...]


China: All Websites Must Now Be Registered

Chinese authorities have set an ultimatum on all websites and blogs operated from within the country: register by June 30th or shut down. The authorities claim to have developed a net crawler system that searches for registration numbers and reports sites that don’t have one. This is the latest attempt by the communist government to [...]