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A blog about life, Microsoft, random technology and general academic stuff.
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April 2005 - Posts
Snippit Editor
Friday, April 29, 2005 8:30 PM
I downloaded the new Snippit Editor for VB .NET beta 2 today. I noticed that the tool had been downloaded 136 times. The documentation had only been downloaded 12 times. Personally I think I'll read the documentation. I've learned that reading the documentation
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Family Awareness Clock
Friday, April 29, 2005 4:41 PM
If you are a fan of the Harry Potter books and/or movies you probably know about the clock the Wesley family has - it shows where everyone in the family is and lets you know if they are lost or in trouble etc. Now from Microsoft Research UK the Family
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Long Day
Friday, April 29, 2005 3:28 AM
I visited Brown University today. Great day. I visited with two other Microsoft people. One of them from my group and one of them Erik Meijer who is a designer of C# 2.0 and now also working on the version of Visual Basic after 2005. Erik is one of the
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I'm off my schedule
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:12 PM
I woke up without the alarm clock before 7PM today. Trust me that is a rare thing. Normally I need an alarm to wake up much before 9. Yesterday I woke up early as well. I blame my wife.My wife and our son are away on vacation for several days. They both
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Student "pranks"
Sunday, April 24, 2005 5:10 PM
I spent Friday and Saturday working at a computer science conference. In general it was a very good event and I enjoyed myself quite a bit. There were a couple of negative aspects however. One of them was that sometime between Friday night closing and
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Have printer will travel
Friday, April 22, 2005 7:23 PM
One of the things I got for Christmas was a Canon i80 inkjet printer. The really nice thing about this printer is that it is very small. It also folds up with no loose pieces to catch on things. That means it fits nicely in a suitcase and reasonably well
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C++ v. C#
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:36 AM
Oh the benefits of being multi-lingual. I spent much of Friday and Monday writing a program in C++. Actually what I was doing was converting some C# code to C++ for demo purposes. I'll tell you that I am glad I know C++ but I can't say that I'd choose
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Beta 2
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:41 AM
Beta 2 is ready for Visual Studio .NET 2005. It looks pretty solid too. If you have MSDN AA you can get and distribute it on campus now. If you have been trying out the express editions go to the Express site and get the latest now. You will also want
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Web sites
Sunday, April 17, 2005 10:53 PM
It is pretty amazing how many businesses have web sites these days. It is getting to the point where you are more surprised to find that a business doesn't have a web site than that they do. This was a shopping week end for us. I needed to get a few things
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Bang!
Friday, April 15, 2005 1:16 PM
I went shooting yesterday. Not at turkeys. I'm not a hunter. I'm a target shooter.I haven't been in a while but my cousin and I are having a match. He shoots in California and I shoot in New Hampshire. After shooting we scan in the best target and email
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Turkey
Friday, April 15, 2005 10:12 AM
Turkey the bird not the country. A few minutes ago I was looking out my back door. I live in a rural area as many of you know. What I saw surprised me though. Four wild turkeys were eating bird seed in my garden. I rushed for may digital camera.In this
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My boats
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 6:13 PM
Here are a couple of pictures of my boats.
The large green one is my 15 foot (4.5m) canoe. It holds three adults or two adults and 2 or 3 small children. Plus a lot of stuff.
The short kayak in the middle (10 feet or 3 meters) is the
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New Toy
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:50 AM
I bought a kayak today. I all ready have one but there were a couple of good reasons to buy a second one. One is simply that it lets me invite people along for the ride. I can say "hey I have two. Use one of mine." I should be able to get my son out from
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April Flowers
Monday, April 11, 2005 2:19 PM
The early flowers are blooming. These are the early ones. Over the next week I expect a couple of hundred more of these bright yellow daffodils will be lighting up my yard.This whole thing of plants "coming back to life" is the best part of spring. Even
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Without a net
Sunday, April 10, 2005 2:52 PM
I did an hour long hands on workshop yesterday. The subject was Visual Basic .NET and the audience was current and future school teachers. It was a lot of fun and seemed to go very well. I love doing these kinds of events but it is interesting what they
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Confession
Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:03 AM
I must confess that I wrote my last post in large part to see if I could get a rise out of people - start a little fuss. Seems to have worked. Of course theSpoke being the friendly sort of plae that it is no one got heated or took things too seriously.
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Semi Colon
Friday, April 08, 2005 2:12 PM
I don't understand why a modern programming language would use a semi colon. I mean really hasn't compiler/parsing technology progressed beyond that? I think I'm going to stick with a real language like Visual Basic .NET.Yeah, that is a rant. I'm tired
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Dual Search
Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:50 PM
Andy Santo has a page that does side by side MSN Search and Google Search. Try it out and be sure to hit the feedback link for MSN Search to help us make it better.Oh and read the disclaimer on his blog. It's funny.
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Too Many Blogs?
Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:08 AM
I just counted 80 blogs that I follow using RSS Bandit. There are 100 blogs in my "Blogs I Read" list at theSpoke. I also follow some blogs at another private blogging community site. So there are really close to 200 blogs that I follow. Now fortunately
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Great New Stuff
Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:29 AM
Want to learn how to write some interesting applications using the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions? Well Microsoft has a series of webcasts for you. The Coding4Fun series starts this month. Get all the details at the Express Edition Webcast site.Now
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Open Source Innovation
Sunday, April 03, 2005 8:00 PM
Check out this great blog by Rory Blyth. One of his questions is to ask about innovation from the open source community. Something they have done that they didn't copy from UNIX or Microsoft. Anyone have any examples? BTW tabbed browser windows were available
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Spoof Search
Friday, April 01, 2005 12:15 PM
The good people at MSN Search have a special spoof page. What you do is enter some information about a person and they mock up a joke search result. You can then pass this result around for people to laugh at.One I had done for me is at this link. If
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