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November 19th, 2009
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Author: This is one of my favorite inventions of year, heck, no the decade: A Seattle company, ChefStack, just got $2 million in funding from local investors for their automatic pancake maker that can crank out 200 flapjacks an hour, according to TechFlash.
Now if it could do Swedish pancakes, it’d be a hit in Ballard. In any case, we gotta get one of those for our break room!
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According to The Microsoft Blog on the Seattle PI, the creator of the World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee, not Al G.) says he’s sorry for adding the two forward slashes in URLs, as in http://www, because they’re really not necessary.
Now if only I could get back all the time I’ve spent typing “//” into my browser…
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Microsoft says today that the weekend data loss problem with the Sidekick mobile phone service has been resolved and that data will be restored to users.
A Microsoft press release says in part:
We are pleased to report that we have recovered most, if not all, customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage. We plan to begin restoring users’ personal data as soon as possible, starting with personal contacts, after we have validated the data and our restoration plan. We will then continue to work around the clock to restore data to all affected users, including calendar, notes, tasks, photographs and high scores, as quickly as possible.
Any Sidekick users out there? How do you feel about this whole thing? Are you keeping or cancelling your service?
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Amazon.com is saying that the new Dan Brown book, “The Lost Symbol,” outsold the hardcover version on the day it was released earlier this week.
This is the first time an electronic version of a book has outsold its hardcover version on the opening sales day. (Via TechFlash).
Can the death of paper books be far behind?
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