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Six months ago when my role changed a bit , I took Chris Sells to lunch at our local food court (where the lady at the Indian Restaurant always shakes the big piece of chicken off her serving spoon before she dishes my plate, but I'm not bitter) to talk
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While I (really) unplugged in December of 2009, you can access a nice calendar of all my 2009 posts (as well as other years) at this link . In 2008 I published a Greatest Hits post that I will keep updated, but here's a list of links to the posts I most
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As I've said before, I'm not handy, but I'm trying . I want to also point out that I know exactly ZERO about gardening. All that said, here's what I did this year. April 10th This April my wife said it was time for us to have a garden: One day, last week,
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An email went out to our organization (Server & Tools Online) by one of our GMs that had a bullet (it was bullet #2 I believe) that said: As community engagement and quality of resources are key goals for STO we are broadening the responsibility of
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I just got an email from a GM (General Manager) at Microsoft who is giving a presentation soon about "How to be an effective IC (Individual Contributor)" and he's collecting best practices. He wanted a brain dump from me and others on tips.
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Whatever you do, don't tell my Boss because I'm just sick about this. Like physically ill. I have a confession to make. I got nothing done on Monday. I need to call a "do-over" for the entire day. The whole day was a comedy of errors and meetings.
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There's a lot of information, both useless and useful, on Twitter. When you get started on Twitter the shear amount of crap can be totally overwhelming. Twitter's a lot like Tivo (Digital Video Recorders). It'll record everything and everyone you're interested
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I received an interesting email today where a fellow was trying to make sure that all browsers could successfully download his company's MSI installer. He had found a blog post that I wrote SIX YEARS AGO on the Content-Disposition header and some trouble
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Microsoft's new Search Decision Engine called Bing is live now (in preview/beta). I thought Bing meant " B ing I s N ot G oogle" but apparently "bing!" is the " sound of found. " Found it! Bing! If you use Google Chrome as
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Derek Powazek dropped this little piece of truth on Twitter recently: Twitter was more fun when I could b*tch about a company without them replying to ask how they can provide me with excellent service today. Things have changed since Word of Mouth got
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Disclaimer: It's very likely that I have NO idea what I'm talking about. This is a blog, not a technical article or official anything. Listening to me may well kill your pet kitten and render both your computer and you personally unbootable. Run away
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I asked on Twitter today if it was "OK to be a *** as long as you were introspective about it?" I received a few responses, including one asking if I'd be more gender-neutral and pick a word like *** instead. You can't please everyone. Forgive
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Please forgive me this personal excursion. I had lunch with my friend Greg Hughes yesterday. It's nice when people know you well enough to really grok when something significant happens in your life. The opening part of the conversation at lunch, in person,
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My one-hundred-and-fifty-seventh podcast is up . Be warned! We may just waste your time with this show. It's Hanselminutae #5 with Richard Campbell. We talk books, Windows, Economics, being a Millionaire, Multiple Monitors, TweetDeck, and much much less!
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My one-hundred-and-fifty-sixth podcast is up . Scott chats about Diversity with Aslam Khan . He is a software architect and coach from South Africa. He shares his experience growing up South African, and how he applies his experience to working with Agile
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