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Microsoft is clearly getting hipper with their offerings. The company that has been notoriously committed to offline products, like their Windows operating System and productivity suite, Microsoft Office, to the detriment of their online offerings seems to definitely be moving into the internet space more. They are, in fact, trying to own the online space now which is a significant internal company departure from the past.

As recently as yesterday, speculation was that the ill-branded Live! Search could be rebranded in a much more internet friendly way. Kumo.com anyone? Their IM client… well, no one uses it.

Great entry over at Garfield Ridge explaining why women just don’t “get” men who play Halo 2.
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Written by Aaron Brazell on January 26, 2005

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If you play Halo 2 and are interested in tracking stats, I have a preliminarty beta available that will aggregate stats and maintain an archive for you. Drop me an email at aaron [at] technosailor [dot] com and I’ll send you a code that you can use to gain access.
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So I’m writing a Halo 2 Stats script (similar to the one I mentioned yesterday but quicker and lighter with more functionality), and I run across an error message I’ve never seen before. I thought I had seen them all in my four years of writing code, but this one was a new one.
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A coworker, and fellow Halo 2 addict, pointed me to this Halo 2 Stats Aggregator Perl script. Because one of the output methods is XML, the possibility exists for a nice stat package for a website. I plan to modify this script to run non-interactivley and cron it to generate the XML on a [...]

Well, I have an update on the lost Amazon.com XBOX Accessory order.
Despite the fact that Amazon.com could not seem to grasp the concept that both Halo and the extra controller were lost since they were in the same shipment, they have agreed to re-ship both items. Better than I would have expected to be honest.
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