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A blog about life, Microsoft, random technology and general academic stuff.
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July 2005 - Posts
Busy, busy, busy
Friday, July 29, 2005 11:58 PM
Normally the middle of July and the beginning of August are slow for me and the people in my group. This doesn't seem to be a normal time though. We had a new person join the group to help out with the universities in New England. Philip is a great guy
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Irony
Friday, July 29, 2005 3:26 AM
I realized today that many of the same people who say that Microsoft charges too much for software get very upset when Microsoft gives software away for free. I'm not sure how to answer that.
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What's in a name?
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:07 PM
Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows will be called Windows Vista. And it seems that everyone has an opinion. Personally I don't understand the fuss. What is in a name after all? Isn't it the features that matter? Lots of cars have
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Being the Dad
Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:25 PM
I got my birthday present today. A week or so early because I will be away during my birthday. Being that Dad this means:
I got to help pick out the present
I got to pay for the present
I got to carry the present home
I got to put the thing together.
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Shuffle up and deal
Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:57 PM
There is a new starter kit out. I haven't downloaded it (actually it's downloading in another window right now) but it looks like fun. A gard game programming starter kit. Combine that with the shareware starter kit and will we see a flood of shareware
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Party with the big guys
Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:47 PM
Steven Sinofsky, a senior vice president at Microsoft in the Office group, has a blog. In his latest entry he talks about a party the Office group throws for their summer interns. I think it is pretty cool that Microsoft VPs believe that interns are important
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Can you hear me now?
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:46 PM
There is an ad for a cell phone company in the US where this guy shows up in all sorts of wierd places talking into his cell phone. What he says is "can you hear me now." The idea of course is that the cell phone company has someone going all over to
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Best SWAG yet
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:34 PM
Lots of companies are good at finding interesting things to give away to people at conventions and conferences. Microsoft is as good as any in my opinion. But the Research group at Microsoft has to be the best at it. I'm at the MSR Research Faculty Summit
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Faculty Summit Day One
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:31 AM
Here is a link to the opening keynote which included Bill Gates talking with Maria Klawe, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University. One thing that Bill Gates had trouble answering is how to get more women into computer science. I
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Shareware Starter Kit
Sunday, July 17, 2005 11:35 PM
There is a Shareware Starter kit with all sorts of modules to help you write shareware. Shareware doesn't get the attention it used to get but I think it is still a viable model for hobby programmers to write some code and make a little money. Check it
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Blogging and the job hunt
Sunday, July 17, 2005 2:43 AM
Interesting essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The title? "Bloggers Need Not Apply" Something to think about when you write your own blogs. But you know, I think that applying for an academic job is a bit different from a job in industry. Not
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Home from Vacation
Saturday, July 16, 2005 7:56 PM
I had a great vacation. I spent almost no time on the Internet while I was gone. There are hundreds of blog entries, probably close to 200 email messages and who knows what else waiting me. And I have to leave at 4:30 AM tomorrow to fly to Redmond. I
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Busy day
Friday, July 08, 2005 2:40 PM
For some reason I could not get to my blog last night or earlier this morning when I was signed in. That made it pretty hard to update. Not sure what was going on.A couple of short things though. One is that I am going on vacation. Yes again. I'm going
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Silly Season
Thursday, July 07, 2005 5:07 PM
It is salary review time at Microsoft. At least it is in the US. Unlike other companies where review timing was dependent on your anniversary at Microsoft everyone gets their review at the same time. And to make it even more fun this time is the
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The garden is in
Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:24 AM
Normally we get the garden in the end of May or beginning of June. Well, we're late this year. :-) The vegatables are now in. Less than usual but I have a lot of travel planned and I wanted to make sure I did not plant more than I could take care of.
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Linux v. Innovation
Sunday, July 03, 2005 2:13 PM
Rory points out that the emperor has no clothing. While detractors complain that Microsoft doesn't really innovate Linux continues to do little more than copy other operating systems. It started off as a copy of UNIX and continues to copy Windows as it
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One of those days
Friday, July 01, 2005 3:21 PM
I've been having some performance problems with my Tablet PC. Mostly I think there have been too many changes to it. Too much software, especially beta software, installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. So I contacted the help desk and agreed that it
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