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The Microsoft team has made the Beta 2 version of IE 7.0 available for download to developers and adventurous users. Even if you aren't brave enough to try that yet, you might find it interesting to view this video of the team leaders who created the new version of the browser. You'll find it interspersed with a lot of jargon, such as CSS, RSS, etc., but if you'll just watch the video, you'll get a sense of the people who make this product and some of the functionality in the new browser. Watching the Channel 9 videos of such interviews as this is a really good way to become familiar with the technology behind the new developments in the industry, providing you can allow yourself to tolerate the ambiguity of not understanding completely what everyone is saying. This is not a problem, by the way, with the video itself but rather with our level of familiarity with the technological explanations of things. I find them fascinating, as I think you will too.

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I've just completed a Skype call of about an hour and a quarter with my friend, Juan Gutierrez, in which he observed that my blogging has dropped off of late. Like many of you, he checks my blog periodically to see whether 1) I've written anything and 2) whether what I have written is of any interest to him.

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Dave Winer has an interesting piece on friendship that I recommend to you. It sparked a number of comments that are also interesting, so don't overlook those. And others have riffed on the idea. Also recommended to get the ole brain working this Monday morning.

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I'm interested in locating any other Flock users here in Knoxville.

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Daryl Houston, a fellow Knoxvillian and a Flock community shepherd, has done his first podcast about the new social browser Flock.

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On Sunday, January 15, I drove to Carole's home in Lula, GA, to surprise her and help celebrate her birthday. It's the first time I've been down to Georgia in many months, and I did catch her by surprise. We went out in search of a Greek dinner on Tuesday night but when we got to the restaurant, we found it closed because it is only open for dinner from Thursday through Sunday. So despite the fact that we had gotten all geared up for a Greek dinner, we went to a restaurant down the street called Seabones and had a very nice seafood dinner there. I came back home yesterday. While I was in Georgia I didn't have access to the Internet, so if I missed contacting you, my apologies.

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Please forgive me as I entertain myself with a romp through my mind.

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Hugh (Buck) Thompson, Jr. died of cancer yesterday in a veteran's hospital in Alexandria, Louisana.

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Today in Las Vegas, hundreds of thousands of people have gathered for the next 3 days for the 2006 CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, the technology industry's annual orgy of self-congratulation. In 1992, I attended Comdex, the predecessor to this event, and in that year there were 140,000 people in attendance. Comdex has since gone by the wayside, but a rose by any other name, blah, blah, blah.

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I've mentioned Colm Smyth here before. Last night, he called from Dublin (via Skype) and we talked for about 30 minutes.

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