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TechCocktail 2 was tonight at The Gramercy in Chicago and was another good time. I think I liked #1 better just for the fact that it was in a more-open space and wasn’t as jam packed. Boy, was it jam packed. Being that crowded is a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing [...]

It kind of snuck up on me, but TechCocktail 2 (Electric Boogaloo) is this coming Thursday (October 12th, 2006) at The Gramercy in Chicago… I am planning on being there and am looking forward to this event. I had a great time at #1 and am hoping that it has the same energy/vibe. If you’re [...]

Wow, I can’t believe that July is almost over already. I really can’t tell you where the time has gone since I’ve been so busy. I’m already seeing “Back to School” ads which is never a good sign to those in school (although it was always a welcoming sign once I started going to college). [...]

So I went to BarCamp Chicago today and don’t know how I feel walking away from it. While I was only able to attend for a couple of hours this afternoon, I can’t say I’m walking away with much. There definitely was a share of very smart people there, but it seemed to be missing [...]

I’ve been feeling really good about the tech-scene going on around Chicago (yeah, that’s really nerdy to say out loud). Coming off of “a high” from Gnomedex, it’s nice to see this attitude carrying on locally… – The local crew has a couple of tricks up their sleeves which will be announced soon – TechCocktail [...]

Last night I made the trek last night to the inaugural TECHcocktail event in Chicago. For being such a big city, there never has seemed to be any sort of techy/webby/bloggy community that I was ever able to find. If you go back to the early years of marusin.com (we’re talking 2001ish ~ too lazy [...]

Some very flashy spam I got today. Love the rounded corners and 2.0-ish colors. :) I’ll admit that I was just looking for an excuse to use the ™ symbol next to Web 2.0™…  There I go again!  :)

These look pretty interesting. “This prototype mobile PC, about the size of a paperback book, has a 7-inch touch screen and standard x86 processors. It can run full versions of desktop operating systems beyond the XP variant from Origami.” I’ve been waiting for something like this from Apple for years (no, I’m not talking about [...]

I don’t want to be rumor central, but… I was in a late night conversation this past summer with someone from Microsoft and they were hinting/talking about a device that they were possibly developing that was a “cross between a Tablet PC and Pocket PC”. I didn’t really think much about it then, but with [...]

As you may have heard, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 to the public today. Being the carefree early adopter that I am, I threw caution to the wind and installed this new browser on my work laptop. Did I make a mistake? Let’s find out… I first saw IE7 at Gnomedex last summer [...]