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  1. @actaneon @cwrea Already have some more Neal Stephenson queued up. Cryptonimicon and Diamond Age are on the list.
  2. @jeremydmiller Yes, first time reading Snow Crash or Stephenson. Trying to fill in some gaps in my sci-fi authors.
  3. Now reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. (http://bit.ly/6OH6oo) Wow!!! If you like William Gibson (Neuromancer), you'll love Stephenson.
  4. First Kindle book was Trading in Danger (http://bit.ly/805jgN). Good, though not stellar, SF novel. 7/10. Awesome that it was free.
  5. Just finished reading my first novel on the Kindle DX (http://bit.ly/8LCsK0). Kindle 9.5/10. Very impressed!
  6. Amazon makes the Kindle available in Canada yesterday and my Kindle DX arrives today. Oh the irony. On the plus side DX isn't available yet.
  7. LOL - Ford introduces a new car for the cash-strapped buyer: The 1993 Ford Taurus. http://bit.ly/fwLAd
  8. @julielermanvt #NotAtPDC #TechDays_CA I would have done PDC again this year, but my new teleportation device is on backorder...
  9. At #TechDays_CA presenting two sessions on VS Tips & Tricks and Patterns for the Rest of Us.
  10. Robotics Engineers + 5 Roombas = Roomba Pac-Man! http://bit.ly/2siYMR
  11. "Oslo" renamed SQL Server Modeling. http://bit.ly/4fBsMv Now I'm completely confused.
  12. LOL - xkcd on Sympathy Tips for Physicists: http://xkcd.com/660/
  13. Paint.NET 3.5 just released... Get it while it's hot! http://www.getpaint.net/
  14. Feeling gypped that my dishwasher didn't come with a neckstrap and carrying case. http://bit.ly/4s5zED (via http://bit.ly/1hp91x)
  15. @ayende spikes out EFProfiler with @julielermanvt - http://bit.ly/2NCPhJ In other news an avian species of Suidae has recently been sighted.
  16. According to @HenryAllain - president of Redmond Media Group - they are committed to publishing MSDN Mag in print form. Good to know.
  17. Mark Russinovich on why sysinternals' NewSID is being retired and why we've been wrong about machine SIDs all along. http://bit.ly/3hJh2p
  18. Thankful that @rkawchuk got our family to the H1N1 vaccination clinic on Thursday before the rush. 3-1/2 hour wait seems short now.
  19. Yippee!!! My Kindle DX has shipped. http://is.gd/4JvXD
  20. PSA to burglars: When you plan to rob a house and can't find your mask, an indelible marker is not a good substitute. http://is.gd/4JtXH