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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!

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In the last week or two, Google's been complaining to US courts claiming Microsoft is breaching the conditions imposed on it due to it being convicted of monopolistic behaviour. It's complaint was that the new in-built search in Vista is not replaceable and cannot be turned off. But even though all you...
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Apple and Google working on projects together . Oooh, guess Apple needed something to keep the iPhone hype up. But seriously, two big, innovative, secretive, market-leading companies working together could prove to be a very powerful alliance, and bad news for their competitors, namely Yahoo! and Microsoft...
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Alright I know I really should just let the Microsoft Office cheating campaign go, so here's hopefully the last time I'll mention it here. I got curious when looking at my post list earlier, as my ' Office, it's worse than cheating ' post got more views than any other recent post. I checked out the referrals...
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Photo by mugley from flickr I've obviously missed the Happy New Year bandwagon already - being 18 hours late for an event is probably unforgivable in the blogosphere - but stuff that, Happy New Year! The blogosphere also doesn't seem to like holidays that much either, with Google Reader telling me I...
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http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googlife Aaron Swartz, the reddit guy, said in a recent post that Google treats its employees like kids, and that's how they retain them. It seems to have struck a nerve with his readers, with various people disagreeing, and googlers posting in his comments too. Ok, so the...