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January 2005 - Posts

A* Articles
Monday, January 31, 2005 11:44 PM
Stefan Rusek has collected his A* articles together in one place. A* is used for finding out the travel distances between locations that are not connected in a line. You will want to look at these if you are serious about the Visual Gaming event. Or really
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Flying over the City
Monday, January 31, 2005 6:39 PM
I flew to Washington DC today. I had to change planes at LaGuardia Airport which is one of three airports that serves New York City. I grew up in Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs that make up New York City, so flying into LaGuardia in the borough of
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Home Server?
Monday, January 31, 2005 2:36 AM
What do you think? I think I need a server like this at my house. I dond't know if Microsoft will do it but I think the right set of hardware and software could make my life a lot easier. I have three laptops (soon to be four once I buy my wife a new
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Team Building
Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:02 PM
My group, US Academic Developer Evangelists, is spread all over the US. We don’t get together in once place all that often. This makes building working relationships a bit harder than it would probably be if we were all together often. We’ve also recently
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Interesting links
Friday, January 28, 2005 7:39 PM
Martin continues to post interestng sample code and suggestions around web services. This is an area Martin knows a lot about."Verna Felton already has a job at Microsoft, but the position she really wants is that of protege to Donald Trump. "Allister
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Summer Jobs at Microsoft
Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:07 PM
Gretchen is a recruiter at Microsoft who runs a great blog about getting jobs at Microsoft. She has a lot of advice that is valuable to job hunters in general. The other day she posted an entry about Microsoft's summer hire programs. She's got some
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Where should I visit first?
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:41 PM
Last night at the Academic Airlift we had a diner for the group. The highlight of diner was not the food but the conversation. I sat at a table with Pradeepa De Silva (Australia/New Zealand), Tyson Dowd (Asia Pacific HQ), Na Zeng (China), Hoong Fai Lai
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Pocket PC Web Service Sample
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:37 PM
Martin Schray, one of the guys in my group, has some great Pocket PC code that uses a web service. Check it out. I think you'll find it useful. He's got a second post here. If you find these useful you will probably want to subscribe. martin comes up
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Academic Airlift
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:53 PM
I made it to Seattle last night. Got into the hotel just after midnight local time. Of course my body thought it was 3 AM. On the other hand I was wired and really had a hard time gettting to sleep. But I made up for it by getting up early. :-) Sometime
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Some pictures
Monday, January 24, 2005 3:37 PM
SO this may be interesting to those of you who don't see a lot of snow. Here is a picture of my meditation garden from this past summer.Here is the same section after a small snow fall.And here is is today after a real snow storm.And a close up of the
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Who writes the textbooks
Monday, January 24, 2005 2:41 PM
I was reading a speech that someone wrote for high school students. The author says a number of interesting things but one in particular struck me. He said that the best experts are not the ones who write textbooks. And in general he is write. Some of
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Looking for adnice
Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:12 PM
My friend Brian is looking for advice about what computer skills college students need to succeed in college. Take a minute to drop by and make a suggestion if you are a college student who wants to help influence the future.
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Not looking good
Sunday, January 23, 2005 3:26 PM
Well my flight has been canceled because of the snow. We've had over a foot of snow overnight at my house. It looks like it is going to snow all day. I'm on hold with travel services now. Obviously they are a bit overworked right now as much of the country
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Working without a net[work]
Sunday, January 23, 2005 3:02 AM
I spent several days visiting my Dad. he's got a nice high speed DSL connection to the internet. What he doesn't have is a network. So what I had to do was use his computer to access the internet. Checking and responding to email was basically pretty
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What a couple of days
Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:30 PM
I've been down in Florida for the past couple of days to visit my father. First I was sick. Then my Dad got sick. I spent much of yesterday taking him to doctors and an x-ray place. We thought he might have to go to the hospital but that turned out not
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Travelling Sick
Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:58 AM
I woke up early this morning. I woke up because I was sick. Headache, stiff neck, and other things you don't want to hear about. Had it been regular work day the answer would be easy. Call in sick and try to sleep it off. But alas this was not a regular
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On the road
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:26 AM
I take off for Florida tomorrow. I'll be home on Saturday for almost 24 hours before I head west to Seattle. (Anyone else here going to be at the Academic Airlift?) I'llcome home from that and be home about 36 hours before heading to the Washington DC
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Windows Challenge Update
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:53 PM
The sign up date for the Windows Challenge has been extended until February 6th.Teams that sign up get an ebox for free to use in the contest. The latest ebox is much improved from previous models as well.It may also be possible to design a project that
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Geek Humor Redux
Monday, January 17, 2005 4:57 PM
I found this link on how to convert Windows to Linux and become more L33t. Obviously over the top a bit but its cute. And if Microsoft. fans can enjoy the anti-Microsoft jokes (and as far as I know they generally can) then Linux people should enjoy this
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MSN Spaces and Comments from the Blogosphere
Monday, January 17, 2005 4:39 AM
MSN Spaces has had a huge and rapid growth in users. One thing that has been amazing to me is the way people who are not fans of Microsoft have handled this. In general it seems that claims that are acceptable from other places are down right evil in
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Tomorrow is a mother/son day
Monday, January 17, 2005 3:55 AM
My wife and son, who both work in schools, have a holiday tomorrow. I, alas, have to work. So mother and son are off to have a relaxing day away together. I wish I could go along but at least they will have a good time and burn off some stress. (I hope.)
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Vacation Booked
Sunday, January 16, 2005 8:11 PM
We finished making most of the bookings for our winter snowboarding vacation. Every year my son and I go on a week long snowboarding trip during his school vacation. He is a teacher and generally gets the last week in February or first week in March off.
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Choice and Choosing
Friday, January 14, 2005 11:22 AM
My good friend Brian Scarbeau is a high school teacher in Florida. Well, he's more than that of course. He has also taught groups of teachers around the US and Canada. He knows his stuff. He's also good at making sure his students are exposed to various
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School Issued Laptops
Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:04 PM
Daryll McDade has some questions about school issued laptops. Please check out his blog, the article he links to and give him some feedback. Thanks!Looks like Daryll is starting to enjoy blogging. Read his full blog as he has a couple of interesting entries
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Problems?
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:52 PM
Some people have the most interesting problems. Jan-Kristian has to decide if he wants a free pocket PC or a free smart phone. Sounds like he's in good shape for the Imagine Cup as well. How are you doing with the Imagine Cup 2005? Speakiing of which
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Malware Removal Program
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:57 PM
Microsoft released a program to remove a number of the most common viruses from computers today. It is going to be updated once a month and will be available though automatic Windows Update. It looks fairly useful. I plan to keep a copy on a USB memory
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iLab
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:09 AM
Every once in a while I get into a little funk about the state of education. And then, it never fails, I get the chance to see something exciting. Today it was a visit with the people of iCampus at MIT. They've got some really great things in progress.
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Winter in New Hampshire
Monday, January 10, 2005 10:01 PM
We've had a little bit of snow lately. Not a lot, perhaps 6 or 8 inches yesterday. I think of winter sort of the world in black and white. At least here in the countryside the snow covers everything in a blanket of white. The other colors all seem more
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Bill Gates give interview to blogger
Saturday, January 08, 2005 3:39 AM
Gizmodo, a blogger, has an interview with Bill Gates at CES. Not only is it an interesting interview I think it also shows how important bloggers are getting. When people call bloggers to ask them if they want to interview people with the kind of tight
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Are cats pets?
Friday, January 07, 2005 8:11 PM
The QOTD made me think of this. We have a cat. Is it a pet or are we the pets? I've heard it said that dogs and friends and cats have servants. It seems to me that the cat trains us more than the other way around.The cat is not "mine" by any stretch of
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Tidbits
Friday, January 07, 2005 11:40 AM
The new beta anti-spyware program from Microsoft is now available. Microsoft bought the company that made it. I've been running it for a week or so an really like it compared to other anti-spyware I have used.Conan O'Brian hosts the Consumer Electronics
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How much of a nerd are you?
Friday, January 07, 2005 12:34 AM
I think I am nerdier then a lot more than 65% of all people. Dumb test. I bet I lost points for my age.
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Girlfriends hired to stop nagging
Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:05 AM
Interesting ArticleAGENCIES in China's Chengdu city are offering rented girlfriends to bachelors who need someone to show off to relatives during the coming Chinese Lunar New Year, state press reported today."Love agencies are springing up in Chengdu
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Possible changes to the Spoke sign in
Wednesday, January 05, 2005 3:23 AM
Be sure to check out Mario's latest post. He's asking for some feedback about possible changes to the Spoke. We all want to make sure you have a good experience here. Tell Mario what you think!
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Inspiring Teachers
Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:39 PM
I found this first pointer on MSDN Student Flash where Eric askes if there is a technology teacher you know who attracts the same sort of audience. NPR Story on Law professor Morton HorwitzThere's at least one on every campus: a class so popular, a professor
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Advice to CS Students
Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:55 AM
If you are a CS major or are thinking about being a CS major read this article by Joel Spolsky A quote:Without further ado, then, here are Joel's Seven Pieces of Free Advice for Computer Science College Students (worth what you paid for them):
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Everyone should learn to program
Monday, January 03, 2005 1:42 AM
Seymour Papert is one of the real pioneers in computers and education. He is also one of the founding stars of artificial intelligence and a cofounder of the artificial intelligence lab at MIT. One of his "inventions" was the Logo programming language
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Happy New Year
Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:03 AM
The last year was one of my best ever. I don't know how 2005 can top it but I am hopefull that it will. I hope that all of you will also have a better year in 2005 than you have ever had before.
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