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A blog about life, Microsoft, random technology and general academic stuff.
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July 2004 - Posts
SWAG
Friday, July 30, 2004 6:46 PM
Everybody likes free things. At conferences, meetings, conventions, trade shows and similar events people give and get free things. I have been to trade shows where lots of people spend the first day visiting all the booths collecting free give-a-ways.
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Spiderman 2
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:22 PM
I saw Spiderman 2 last night. Reviews I had heard were mixed but I liked the first one so I figured I would give this one a chance.
As a kid I read Spiderman comics but not a lot. I was more into Superman, Batman and other heroes from DC comics. Plus
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Where are you from?
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:00 AM
Where are you from? It’s a common enough question. When one is traveling people ask it all the time. How do you answer? Is it easy? Have you always lived in one place? Or have you just come to accept where you live now as where you are from?
I am finding
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This is news?
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 2:12 PM
CNN and several newspapers had headlines today like "CLINTON CALLS ON VOTERS TO CHOOSE KERRY." How is this news? It is no more news then "SKY GETS DARK AT NIGHT." I guess it must have been a slow news day. I haven't been watching the convention at all.
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I, Robot
Monday, July 26, 2004 7:37 PM
I went to see I, Robot last night. I am a huge Isaac Asimov fan so naturally I was worried. Asimov was a thinking person’s writer who was always more interested in exploring ideas than in writing about a lot of sex and violence. Hollywood is if course
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On the road again
Sunday, July 25, 2004 1:50 AM
Tomorrow I fly to Denver for a couple of days. On Wednesday I fly to Seattle and a week in Redmond. I love to travel.
In Denver, I will be attending a training event for high school teachers. I'm not teaching it. I'm just there as the "Microsoft
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Tools
Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:19 AM
I spent much of this afternoon and evening installing wainscoting. This is the same stuff I used to break the window in my wife's car. We managed to get about three quarters of the room done. It was all possible because I have some good tools. I guess it would
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I need a pickup truck
Friday, July 23, 2004 2:35 AM
My wife and I are doing a lot of work around the house this summer. We are in the middle of re-doing the second of three rooms we are doing this summer. Today I went to the hardware store to pick up wainscoting. I had 19 packages of 8 foot pre-cut, pre-painted
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Normal working hours
Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:44 AM
What are nomal working hours? Do they even exist? For many people I guess they do. For me, well, not so much. It's 20:30 as I write this. Normal quiting time for most people around here is 17:00. Yet in the last two hours I have handled three or four
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More wi-fi
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:37 PM
I think we need more public wi-fi connections. I had to take my wife to the hospital and the doctor today. First x-rays, then seeing the doctor. All in all I spent a lot of time waiting around. I brought my Tablet PC of course. I’m writing this in the
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Things to do at theSpoke
Monday, July 19, 2004 3:54 AM
You probably already do these things but maybe not. On the week ends the Spoke sometimes gets slow. When this happens I look around for new blogs to read. The first thing I do is visit "What's happening?" and see who has written a new entry. I also take
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The little things
Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:29 PM
Today my picture made the Members Mosaic. As far as I know this is the first time. And of course it is a little thing. It's not like no one knows I'm here. Or even that people should know I am here. But it was nice to see my picture up their with the
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The Best is yet to come
Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:31 PM
I ran into an article about Alan Kay today.
If you don't know who Alan Kay is you should. I think that a history lesson or three should be included in a CS major and people like Alan Kay should be introduced. In any case, Alan Kay is important and when
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The Rest of the Spoke
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:51 AM
I think that a lot of people are missing the rest of the Spoke. What do I mean? I mean the message boards and the file downloads and hubs. Take message boards for example. While something like a conversation happens when people make comments on a blog
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Busy Week end
Sunday, July 11, 2004 8:21 PM
I spent almost no time on the computer this week end. Usually at night on a week end when there is nothing on TV I spend a lot of time on the internet. I read and comment on blogs, I read the news, I chat in a private network forum I belong to and just
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Fixing education
Wednesday, July 07, 2004 4:04 PM
Kevin Schofield (from Microsoft Research) writes a great blog. Recently he wrote about the problems with the American education system. Kevin and I are on fairly opposite ends of the political spectrum in a lot of ways. He is pretty liberal while I am
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Imagine Cup Results
Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:24 PM
Howard announced the winners in his blog a short time ago. I am very happy for the winners. Congratulations to them all.
I will confess that I am a tad disappointed that none of the teams I felt like I knew (Malaysia, Philippines, UK, Norway, and Singapore)
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Misc Thoughts
Sunday, July 04, 2004 2:56 AM
Imagine CupWell theSpoke seems fairly quiet this weekend. Quiet except for a lot of blogs from people in Brazil for the Imagine Cup. Check out the "What's going on?" page and look around. A lot of the blogs today have been from people at the IC. Lots
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Oh no
Saturday, July 03, 2004 12:32 AM
For no apparent reason my Tablet PC has started turning itself off. I think it may be overheating. At first I thought because it was such a hot day but I'm in a cool room not and it has shut down twice. The bottom of the laptop feels hotter than usual.
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Time to do the backup
Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:41 PM
I've been meaning to do a full backup of my primary system (a nice little Tablet PC) for a while. Two of my friends have had major hard drive failures in the past week. That is scary. I generally try to do a backup a couple of times a month. If I am working
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