Until about 10 minutes ago I used my colleague’s Windows Live ID passport to get our Volume Licence stuff. To make things easier, I just signed up for my own Live ID using my displaylink.com address, and then filled out a profile, including things like my name, address, company, job title.
I then successfully log on to eOpen, and add the relevant licences. Then of course I want to download one of the applications, so I click on Product Downloads, and what do I see?
This:
WTF. I just filled out this information 2 minutes ago. Why can’t Microsoft pre-fill this information based on the information I just gave it! I thought the whole point of ‘Live ID’ passporty-thing was to make single-sign-on a reality and enable the sharing of information from a central repository.
15 January, 2008 at 10:54 am
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Life
Here’s something that I often wonder about when buying a lottery ticket: Is the National Lottery’s Lucky Dip algorithm truly pseudo-random, or is it rigged to pick from a pool of statistically/historically less-likely numbers? Further more, who regulates the algorithm, and is it independently tested?
The same goes for those online Flash ’scratchcard’ games.
DisplayLink is getting some great press at CES, but I think the most useful so far, is this TechWebTV video which not only shows how our technology works, but also helps explain what we do a little better than I ever can!
A whole bunch of my colleagues from DisplayLink are currently in Las Vegas for CES 2008, showing off some of our cool new stuff. If you want to keep up with what we’re doing, check out our CES Blog. Oh, did I mention you can enter to win a USB Graphics Adapter?
I just finished off a bowl of Gujarati Red Dal with Riata Soup, from Eat in Cambridge. Eat do some very, very nice freshly made soups, but I’d say this one is probably the nicest soup I’ve ever had.
Phil is an IT Professional working at DisplayLink in Cambridge,
England. He generally blogs about useful solutions that he comes across in his work/play.
