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Virtual Earth and Messenger
Friday, September 30, 2005 11:07 PM

Virtual Earth can now be used as a shared map in a Messenger conversation. Read about it at the Virtual Earth blog. To try it out start an IM conversation with someone. Click the Activities Icon or go to the Actions-> start an activity menu

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Life long learning
Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:26 PM

An interesting blog post by Robert Scoble today. He's talking to MVPs in Seattle this week and some of the people who have made a career from VB 6.0 are not too happy about where Microsoft is taking development tools. On one hand I can really see why

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History Lesson
Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:15 PM

A blog entry by Kevin Briody today made me think about the way history is taught. Or rather the way it is perceived as being taught. The standard knock on teaching history is that teachers only care about the dates and not much else. Even in TV shows

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Back to school?
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:04 PM

Every now and again I think about going back to graduate school for a PhD. There are a number of things that stop me from actually doing it. One is that studying for a PhD is pretty much a full-time job. While you can do the course work part-time (in

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Visual Gaming is back!
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:50 AM

Richard announced in his blog today that Project Hoshimi is back for another year. The "Official web site" is here and goes live November 1st. Keep watching for details.

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Having it both ways
Sunday, September 25, 2005 7:54 PM

There are some people whose career takes them back and forth between academia and industry. I more or less fit into that category as I followed 18 years in the computer industry with 9 years of teaching and am now back in industry. I know others as well.

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Mice and laptops
Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:47 PM

I am seeing people all over the place using laptops with mice attached. I just don't get it. To me it seems like you lose some of the advantage of having a laptop computer by insisting on using a mouse. Isn't the idea that you can just pick up the laptop,

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Anders Hejlsberg
Friday, September 23, 2005 2:24 PM

This must be my trip to Redmond to meet famous Microsoft people. Yesterday I spent some time with Robert Scoble (famous Microsoft Geek Blogger and founding member of the Channel 9 Team). Robert and I have met before and we had a great conversation. Today

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I'm blogging this
Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:36 PM

This is kind of cool. My friend Pat Phillips is interviewing Robert Scoble. I'm sort of a fly on the wall listening quietly. The result is going to be a podcast at the MainFunction community web site for high school (secondary school) computer teachers.

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Didith is back
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:07 PM

I visited Mario this morning and one of the things I asked him was about one of my favorite theSpoke bloggers who didn't make the initial migration for some reason. I was very happy when he told me her account had been migrated. If you are reading this

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Things that cost a lot but are worth it
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:53 AM

I think I’m going to do the unthinkable. I think I’m going to actually spend $300 for a set of headphones. I’m sitting on an airplane with a set of noise reducing headphones plugged into my computer. The sound from my laptop is actually pretty good and

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Steve Jobs on software pirates
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:09 PM

The always interesting Steve Jobs was asked about people getting copies of the new Intel version of MAC OS and hacking them to run on PCs. But Apple’s leader isn’t pulling punches when it comes to his battle with the pirates. “Theft is bad”, he said,

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The down side of a good weekend away
Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:18 PM

So now I want to retire. I want to hang out where my Dad lives and not work anymore. It's not that I don't like my job (really it's the best job I've ever had) but having a couple of days with no responsibility can get habit forming. Oh well I did not

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Art?
Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:50 AM

I'm visiting my Dad this weekend. He lives in East Hampton which is an interesting village in New York. If you've watched Seinfeld or Law and Order on TV you have probably heard references to "the Hamptons." The rich people always seem to have houses

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Visual Basic 9.0 futures
Friday, September 16, 2005 4:22 PM

VB 8.0 comes out in November but there is already talk about VB 9.0. And it is going to be cool. So much for the people who thought that C# was going to kill Visual Basic. Not happening. And I sure am glad.

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PDC Blogging
Friday, September 16, 2005 12:15 AM

If you are not reading Rob Miles blog you are missing some of the best, if not the best, reporting of what is going on at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference on the Internet. Seriously. Go read Rob's blog. A lot of the things being talked

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IIS
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:54 PM

What a wonderful and horrible day all at the same time. I have been playing with IIS on my laptops. The horrible thing is that because I run so much beta software and lock my system down so tightly I am running into all sorts of issues. The wonderful

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What a day
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:54 PM

The CD reader on one of my laptops has decided not to work anymore. Of course it died in the middle of an installation of Windows XP. The computer which I really need is now useless until I buy a new drive or something. Very frustrating. And of course

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Technorati Top 100
Monday, September 12, 2005 12:59 PM

I was reading a blog today ("Scott's Site Expert Place") where he was talking about miking the Technorati Top 100 list at number 100. It looks like he's off right now. Maybe this link will put him back on. In any case it was interesting to note that it

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You look like a man who needs to shoot
Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:09 PM

The title is what a man manning a booth said to me today. And he was right. I enjoy target shooting but have not been to the range in quite a while. This conversation happened at one of my favorite stores - Kittery Trading Post. They are having what

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Posting drop off
Sunday, September 11, 2005 1:13 AM

For some reason I just have not been in the blogging mode the last week or two. It's not just at theSpoke either. All of my blogs have seen a drop off. I don't think it is not having anything to say either as I have mentally writen a number of blog entries

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Bill Gates Interview
Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:05 PM

Now up on Channel 9 - Bill Gates.

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It's taking forever to catch up
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:44 PM

I haven't had the time to search through for everyone I used to read. Judging by my subscriber list and read count I am not alone in that. I really wish the subscriber lists had come over in the upgrade. I've communicated that feeling in other places

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No Ivy League Degree? No problem!
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:14 PM

Jenna over that the Microsoft JobsBlog is looking for talented qualified people who don't have fancy degrees. Nows a good chance to get some well deserved attention. Go visit and she what she's saying.

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Katrina
Sunday, September 04, 2005 6:44 PM

You may have heard that the US was hit by a major hurricane last week. A friend of mine gave me some numbers that may help put things in perspective. The area that was seriously damaged is 90,000 square miles. Great Britain, including England Scotland

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DevRadio.com
Saturday, September 03, 2005 2:39 PM

I got this announcement in email today. I listened to the interview with Dave Massy and found it very interesting. Check it out. DevRadio.com launched today with its first 3 shows. 1.) Inside Out with Jesse Liberty – Jesse

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User Hubs
Friday, September 02, 2005 6:47 PM

I've been trying to use as many features of the new theSpoke as I can. These individual hubs seem interesting. Mine is here. There is an announcement section where I plan to make a note when I am travelling. There are also individual polls. I have one

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Life is uncertain
Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:35 PM

I was driving through town today and saw an old man walking along the side of the road. I realized that it was a man who lives just a bit down the street from me who I haven’t seen in quite a while. It appeared that he was walking home so I called his

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