My tweets

• Thu, 21:42: RT @ElysiaBrooker: I'd like to live in a world where people get as outraged about famine and poverty as they do about ice hockey.
• Fri, 01:35: up to two seconds latency for ads after (ad nauseam) redirection by ad networks in (?old) Yahoo mail - ugh! #velocityconf
• Fri, 01:52: alas my main takeaway from Yahoo Mail presetnation on making ads faster is wow, Yahoo Mail is using3/4 of the page for ads ;-( #velocityconf
• Fri, 01:56: Glad to see Evernote for #wp7 because it's cross-platform but remember #OneNote Web runs on lots of tablets OSes very nicely
• Fri, 02:15: incites: the great ideas at conferences that make you go back to the office and do things? #revelationsfrombadgrammar
• Fri, 06:48: +2 RT @DrPizza: I wish Aero Snap put a "detent" between monitors so that you could snap on the inner edges w/o using the keyboard.

Windows 8 this week: dates and directions

What Windows 8 needs to compete on tablets - is Windows

Microsoft knows where it’s going with Windows 8 and that’s a very different direction from any other tablet maker. And it's been going there since before the iPad came along...

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/microsoft-we-know-where-we-re-going-with-windows-8-tablets-966757

Microsoft hints at a release date for Windows 8
A senior ‘softie does the same calculation we’ve been doing for months and comes up with the same answer; more importantly, he reveals more about how Microsoft sees tablets, phones and PCs…

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/microsoft-hints-at-windows-8-release-date-966233