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Boeing going

 Aerospace, Uncategorized  2 Responses »
Jun 012013
 

If you worry, as I do, about the future of the aerospace industry and its high-paying in Washington State, you won’t want to miss an excellent roundup of recent developments by Dominic Gates in today’s Seattle Times. Near the end of the long article, a quote from Leeham.net‘s Scott Hamilton [continue reading . . . ]

 Posted by Michael Parks at 5:58 pm  Tagged with: aerospace employment, Washington economy

Ford or Ferrari

 Microsoft  No Responses »
Jun 012013
 

The difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8? Think Ford versus Ferrari. A twenty-something Microsoft technician, patient and unfailingly polite, and I were chatting. From Bangalore, he had taken over my Windows 7 computer, my main machine, to try to root out some unseen malady which had prevented all Office [continue reading . . . ]

 Posted by Michael Parks at 8:49 am  Tagged with: Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8

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