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A blog about life, Microsoft, random technology and general academic stuff.
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March 2005 - Posts
Trackbacks
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:41 PM
Stanley asks about trackbacks. Most of this is my comment to him. I am also doing a trackback to his blog so people can see what it looks like.A trackback is a URL that one pings to let the origional location know that it has been referenced. If you hit
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Think Week
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:36 PM
The Wall Street Journal has an article on Bill Gates' Think Week. Twice a year Bill Gates goes off by himself to a secluded cottage to read and think for a week. Most the the papers he reads are from Microsoft employees. ANy employee with an idea can
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New BlogCast
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:36 AM
Josh Blake introduces his latest blog cast here. This time Josh shows how to make non-rectangular forms using transparent bitmaps. It's actually fairly simple to do and Josh explains it without adding complexity. That's a gift if you ask me. All to many
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Packages in the mail
Monday, March 28, 2005 8:21 PM
Mostly what I get in regular mail is bills and junk mail. But packages? Packages are a whole different thing. Today when I got back from a school visit there were three packages waiting. Wow! Like Christmas. One package was for my wife. It was some
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A Conversation
Friday, March 25, 2005 3:15 PM
You know, perhaps I’m too old or been around too long. I don’t “get” Linux.
Student: I want to use Linux because I have the source and can change it if I want.
Me: So what qualifies you to make changes?
Student: It’s written in C and
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300 Names
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:30 PM
They upped the limit on the number of names you can have on your MSN Messenger buddy list. More information on that here. I can't imagine needing more than 150 names which was the old limit. But apparently there are a lot of people out there who know
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Disappointment
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:31 PM
Microsoft Research is running a symposium on social computing next month. I've watched the tapes from last years event and there were a lot of good presentations. I was hoping to be able to be there in person this year. After all the presentations
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First Day of Spring
Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:31 PM
It's the first day of spring in New England. Palm Sunday as well. I spent some time this morning walking through the woods on snow shoes with my neighbor. It is hard to believe there is still so much snow on the ground. Parts of my yard, mostly where
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Spring is coming!
Friday, March 18, 2005 10:56 PM
The other day I had to shovel a path through the snow so that the fuel oil guy could make a delivery. Under the snow I found daffodils trying to work their way up to the sun. Today I went out and uncovered as many as I could. There are a lot of them.
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Outlook hints and tips
Friday, March 18, 2005 6:40 AM
Allister Frost made a couple of videos on using Outlook 2003. If you use Outlook than you must go here and watch these videos. Allister has done a great job on these videos. If you use Outlook then watching these videos you will learn ways to make yourself
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Talking Police Cars
Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:53 PM
Police cars tend to have a lot of equipment these days. Radio, lights, radar, the list goes on and on. This can be a confusing mess and trying to operate this stuff while driving a car can be a risky situation. So the University of New Hampshire has been
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Call to the creative
Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:03 PM
Now here is a chance to get creative in a different way. As many of you know the Visual Gaming event uses "tissues" which are the maze that the nano robots have to move through. There is a contest for people to create their own tissues that can be usd
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Blog Aggregator from MSN
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:29 AM
Have you seen the experimental web based blog reader from MSN? It is at www.start.com/1/ It has a bunch of links that you can add automatically to connect with some of the top blogs and other RSS feeds on the Internet.There is an interesting looking bookmark
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A Walk in the Woods
Monday, March 14, 2005 10:32 AM
It snowed again yesterday. We've had a lot of snow this month so far. It's really quite amazing actually. Most of my yard is covered in snow that ranges from a foot and a half to over 2 feet deep. That's a lot for this time of the year. We often see that
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An HTTP Detective Story
Sunday, March 13, 2005 4:48 AM
I found this story on the Internet Explorer blog. If you have ever or ever do plan to write a secure web application you should read it. In fact if you are just wondering about what sorts of things SP2 broke you should read this story. The short version.
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VB 6 v. VB .NET
Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:58 AM
Developers Petition Microsoft To Continue Support For VB6I'm of two minds about this. When I first found out what was involved in converting programs from VB 6 to VB .NET I was not a happy camper. I got over it mainly because I did not have a lot of large
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I need a new avatar
Monday, March 07, 2005 4:58 PM
I was never completly happy with using a picture of myself as my avatar here. It's really sort of boring. Some people have cute cartoon images of themselves (I like Andrey's for example) but I lack the talent to draw one myself. Other people have interesting
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Home Sweet Home
Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:30 PM
I was away from home for 11 days between work and vacation. I missed my wife the most of course. But I also missed just being home. So here I sit in my cozy little home office and it feels good. I've got a lot to write about from my trip but that will
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Email vs Vacation
Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:08 AM
On average it appears that I am recieving 100+ email messages a day while I am on vacation. That means that if I leave them all until I return I would be facing 800-900 messages next Monday. Frankly that scares me. So like an idiot (or a dedicated employee
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