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I was over at http://search.twitter.com earlier today and I noticed the Search Box in Firefox had a blue lit-up dealie: Hm...OK. What's that? I hit another site and didn't see it. Weird. Ok, View-Source then, what drives you little blue thing? <link
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Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd ? Perhaps a geek ? No? Maybe a spaz , dork , dweeb or wonk . Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or the ASPInsiders meeting. Quite
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OK, so maybe I’m a couple of days late with that, but for good reason. I’ve had the pleasure of having family visit, and have been busy spending time with them (including a nice trip to the Baltimore Zoo – one of the 3 oldest in the country – yesterday),
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I got a disturbing email today on Flo's mailing list (of Notepad2 fame). Florian Balmer is the author of the most excellent Notepad2 . This is a great "it just works" editor. It's Notepad, but goes one better, I like to say. I've promoted it
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I posted a little rant against the Northwind Database a few weeks back, and suggested that we, the community, create a better demo database than Northwind. I proposed the name NotNorthwind . There were some varied and interesting responses. From
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Jeff Atwood has one of his best posts in months that was inspired by Alastair Rankine's post "Blogging Horror " explaining why he's unsubscribed from Jeff's blog. I too, have been less compelled to read Jeff's blog lately, but he's an excellent
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I'm just sick of Northwind. Sick to death of the Northwind Database. You know, this is the Products, Categories, Suppliers, yada yada yada sample database that you've been seeing in Microsoft demos since the beginning of time. (FYI, the beginning of time
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I hope this helps someone because it totally freaked me out this evening. I rebooted this evening, the first reboot since March, in fact, and blue-screened (BSOD) upon startup. At this point I was in a blue screen "loop" with the ominous message "INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR"
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The Beta of .NET 3.5 and VS2008 SP1 is out . I'm sure everyone is blogging the heck out of it, so I'll try to add my own specific kind of value. There's fixes, many improvements (some subtle, some dramatic), and some new technology. Should You Fear This
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When I came to Microsoft I saw a really cool tool being used internally and immediately wanted to work with the author, Rocky Downs (who is blogless, but exceeding talented), to get it released. Fast forward to now, plus an installer, and here it is.
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I'm thoroughly enjoying Twitter ( follow me !) Apparently others are enjoying it also as there's a funny estimate that it's costing $14 billion in lost productivity (via a back of envelope calculation ). There is about a million people on Twitter and
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I've officially been blogging for six years this week. Yikes! It didn't all suck, but it was pretty rough there early on and I've finally found my blog's heartbeat . Here's a little about me if you're interested, but more importantly, here's some posts
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Have you ever looked at a word you use and see every day, like the word "What," and suddenly start doubting yourself and wonder if it's spelled correctly? There you go. What. Is THAT how it's spelled? That doesn't look right. Why would such a simple thing
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I've been traveling lately, and last week I posted 10 Guerilla Airline Travel Tips for the Geek-Minded Person . Next week I'm going to Seattle for the week and I really prefer to pack as light as possible. There's lots of tips on the net on how to squish
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There's a million sites with a million travel tips, so I won't even try to imply that I know what the Rick Steves of the world have worked so hard to figure out. However, I do fly around a lot and I have for many years. I'm a geek, I like tools and I
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