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  1. Jan 16th, 2009, 11:39 AM #1
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    "dirt bound"

    Technical Terms You Should Know: "Dirt Bound". Have you heard it before? I blogged about it:

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    Re: "dirt bound"

    Congrats! Looks like you're somewhere between dirt bound and cloud.
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    Re: "dirt bound"

    My feet are on the dirt, but my head is in the cloud.
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    Re: "dirt bound"

    My life is actually becoming much more in the clouds. I have considered dumping everything that is dirt bound -- such as office and outlook -- and going purely in the clouds. Things like ThinkFree, Zoho, Google Apps, and Live mail make it very tempting to cut the dirt bound times completely. But, old habits die hard!
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    Re: "dirt bound"

    I've tried them all out but they all fail miserably in one way or another. The two worst are Google Apps and Zoho, IMEO. They are basic substitutes for 'the real thing'. For example, I'd still want to use MS Word and/or MS Visio when working on a new project. If they bring Visual Studio to 'the cloud', then we're talking...
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