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With all the hype of Windows 7 at CES, you would think that Microsoft had planned for the demand for Windows 7 download... 

But anyway, according the latest blog entry, Microsoft has decided to right the wrong but offering unlimited download for Windows 7 beta till January 24.

Off I go.  New technology.

The notion that people are interested in what you are doing every minute of your life is.... interesting and scary.  Frankly, I wouldn't want to know what someone is doing every minute of his/her life, but then I guess the popularity of twitter proves me wrong.

Anyway, I am now also on Twitter

I recently downloaded XNA Game Studio 3.0, a platform which allows you to write games for your PC, your XBox 360, and even your Zune, using the latest Visual Studio 2008 environment.

It's really amazing how you can write your game once and in theory deploy to 3 different platforms.

I am going to write some games for my Zune.  Stay tuned.

There is an infomercial on "huge" Chicago foreclosure auction coming on November 22 & 23.  I plugged the data into a map to see where foreclosures are happening:

Foreclosures are virtually non-existent in the upscale neighborhoods such as Lakeview, Lincoln Park, the Loop and even less enviable neighborhoods like Bucktown.

By now, you should be quite familiar with VP candidate Sarah Palin's jargons - hockey mom, joe 6 pack, maverick, etc.

In fact, someone even has created the Sarah Palin's bingo game.