Cool Windows XP downloads

Hey Scoble,

Let me tell you something honestly (a little off topic). You are the person who introduced me to the world of blogging. Your posts were inspiring. On my live.com page your blog feed is on the top of the page and then after you left Microsoft i found that your blogs were getting quite uninteresting so i shifted your blog on my live.com page to the bottom.

But reading your last couple of posts, you have finally convinced me that i should remove your feed from my live.com page and stop reading your posts completely. Thanks for that. I read you mentioned that your readers were valuable to you, well i got news for you, you just lost a valuable reader. I was disappointed to see you stoop so low as to bring Dare’s father into your intelligent replies.

Please dont bother responding to this reply because i am not reading your blog anymore so no counter response from me.

Goodnight and good luck
-Pranab

Amen Pranab…petulent and random has Robert been of late.

Hmmm, not the best list I’ve ever encountered. (I mean, COME ON, it starts with MS freakin’ agent).

I like this task-oriented list and frequently refer people to it:
http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html

My advice: Don’t apologize. Dare is regularly a jerk to people who he disagrees with, and in this case he’s just huffy because his project.

In my mind, your very best posts have been the ones that are unprofessional.

- Telling Steve Ballmer that kowtowing to religious bigots about gay rights is wrong? Brilliant!

- Laying your heart on the line about the death of your mother? Sappy, but real.

- Calling bullshit on your old company’s spam-ridden ghost-town blog hosting product? Tellin’ it like it is.

While you’re at it, somebody get a mop for Pranab’s bleeding heart. Maybe he’d be more comfortable hearing your criticisms in sonnet form, or whatever it is they use to flame each other in the happy-go-lucky fairy land that he comes from where people never say mean things to each other on a blog.

Stick to your guns, don’t go wishy washy…

Perhaps, more dispassionate, more logical, less emotional, less flamebaity and more slicing snark…

….but illogical, emotionally-mood-swingy, corny maple-syrup wood-sap be another “definition” of blogging, and makes you more “human” and “passionate”, cue up the rest of the buzzword soup here.

I think a web-service is important not because of the advertisement revenue but because its adds a little bit more convenience or little bit more fun or little bit more knowledge or little bit more productivity… to a user’s life.

If a service is important and people are getting something out of it then a successful business model exist. These days it is ads but it very well could be something entirely different.

Kamal Jain.

Yeah, The most interesting blog entries of recent times are the ones that some readers think are the driest.

I am definitely will be one more reader to replace the sad loss of one of your readers, and I’m sure there’ll be more too.

In reply to a previous comment I think it’d be great if you’d put a poll for some of your posts, since there are so many other readers out there, I’m sure most of them can’t even be bothered to comment on some of the entries, but if there’s a poll, you never know what the results might be!

Oh and to Jake, I’ve got the mop for Pranab’s bleeding heart, but I think it’s too late, Scoble’s gone from his live.com feed now

Not to worry, the scobleizer has just been added to mine

Samuel, thanks for making my evening!

http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1344.entry

Here is the latest topic of Free WinXP Software that was just posted 8/18……besides the one highlighted in this blog…

I thought the post about ‘spaces’ was mostly about Microsoft always going on about how they are the biggest and baddest, while a closer inspection reveals that there wasn’t much there, except mostly empty ‘blogs’.
No biggie, they dont have to be the biggest if the service is a good one.. which it really is.. but it’s annoying that one can’t point out the fact that sometimes, they just aren’t the biggest and/or the best.
Sometimes, they are just mediocre, and one should be able to mention this without being flamed as a result.
Spaces is a slightly boring place, with big empty ‘spaces’, which tries hard to appear a little bigger than it really is, referring to numbers that aren’t exactly perfectly correct, because Microsoft can’t be anything but the biggest..
It’s not a bubble, really, but it’s a slightly dangerous tendency and it might derail the company if it goes to far.

- It’s a good service tho.

This is an abomination.-

I find this one far better

http://www.xpvsx.com/updates.htm

sure it bashs apple here and there, but it’s a far more complete list

Pranab, “Dare is a jerk”? He sounds a lot more interesting to hang around with and listen to than Scoble does, and certainly more than you do.

(I still don’t know why Scoble felt the need to bring Dare’s father into their little spat.)

But RSS Bandit rocks, and Dare was the originator of it. I’ve never used anything made by Scoble.

Pranab, I’m sorry, I meant to reply to Jake’s post calling Dare a jerk, not yours.

where are the downloads?

where Are the downloads?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!? >:-(