Well, 2021 is finally over. I thought 2020 couldn't be topped, but 2021 wasn't much better for most.

The new year is coming soon and that means it's time for my yearly look back at my life and industry. This was an odd year for me since I didn't do many conferences and stayed home to solve some issues and work on the film.

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I finally decided to dive in with an online backup of my files. I have two systems that need backups so I decided to use MozyPro as their prices are good and if Hanselman uses them, they can't be that bad.  My big pain point with online backup is my behemouth .pst files. I have two of them...my working .pst and an archive .pst.  Totaling about 2 GB total, I need a solution that can back up these files without re-uploading the entire file everytime. Mozy promises this...after the first backup.

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Two weeks ago I used  IE 6's new "Manage Addins..." to disable the Flash plugin.  I was worried about some of the content I'd miss.  After two weeks, my experience has been that I have not missed much.  Here is a short list of what I've noticed without Flash:

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As many of you might not know, I am not at the PDC, but am interestingly watching to see what comes out from it.  Usually at the event times, everyone blogs too much about what they like and don't like.  Everyone wants to be the first out the door with some news from a keynote.  So I am layng low and letting all that happen without me.  On the plus side, I can now talk about some things that I've had the opportunity to play with for some time (now that they are public knowledge and I am not hurting any NDA's):

I installed the new version of iTunes recently and its amazing how many running services and background tasks Apple is installing:

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I didn't notice this until today, but did you know that if you have MSN IM you can select the XBox tab and view your online XBox Live buddies?  Me either...

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After a relatively happy honeymoon, my marriage to the new Tivo is on the rocks.  I've been spoiled.  ReplayTV just does what I expect, with less of the intrusive advertising of Tivo.  Here are my sticking points:

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How I wish I were there.  Evidently the Yukon Public Beta and the VS.NET 2005 Beta will be available.  Get them while they're hot!

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