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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:01 PM

Oh this is cool. A virtual drive thought the streets of Seattle or San Francisco. This looks lik a preview demo but when it is ready to go this is going to change the way we think about driving directions. The Channel 9 video is here. Thanks to Chandu

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My Blog and Technorati
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:26 AM

Technorati has a new feature that lets you create a list of favorite blogs. I'm starting to build mine up and you can see it at this link. You can use the link below to add this blog to your favorites list.

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When time is more than money
Monday, February 27, 2006 10:40 AM

This is the sort of thing that makes me proud to work for Microsoft. Microsoft will give every employee in Asia three-days paid leave this year to pursue community service projects aimed at narrowing the digital divide in the continent, the company said

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What is the Origami Project
Saturday, February 25, 2006 8:25 AM

What is the Origami Project? It's from Microsoft and it will be announced next week. I personally have missed the memo as to what it is about. I could, I suppose, get on the internal Microsoft network and try to find out. As it is I am thinking of waiting.

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The Intern experience
Friday, February 24, 2006 6:02 PM

Steven Sinofsky talks about the Intern Experience at Microsoft, particularly the Office Group that he runs. I've talked to a lot of people who have been interns at Microsoft and the ones I have talked to had a great time and learned a lot. Most of them

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The Code Room: Breaking into Las Vegas
Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:43 PM

This edition of the Code Room goes to Las Vegas to take a look at the world of application security where one mistake in code or procedures can mean losing millions of dollars. This eposode highlights the need to writing secure code and designing security

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University Lectures on Podcast
Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:43 AM

Someone sent me a link to these podcasts from the University of California at Berkeley. I've been listening to some of them. Most people talk to slow for me so I use Windows Media player to play the recordings at double time. It lets me get through the

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Anders Hejlsberg - Behind the Code
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:13 AM

Did I somehow forget to link to Anders Hejlsberg on Behind the Code? It is an hour long interview with one of the most impressive technical people at Microsoft. But this interview is about the person not the technical stuff. I've had the chance to meet

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Vint Cerf is coming to theSpoke
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:42 PM

Read all about it here. Vint Cerf is about as important a person in the creation of the Internet as you can imagine. If you want to ask him a question please post it on at this thread: http://thespoke.net/forums/938863/ShowPost.aspx.

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Using Live Meeting
Monday, February 20, 2006 4:06 PM

I've been making some presentations using Windows Live Meeting lately. I've been attending Live Meetings for several years now because we use them a lot inside Microsoft. But the last week or so has been the first time I have been an active presenter.

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Feedback on Help
Sunday, February 19, 2006 2:54 PM

One of the things I am playing with in my spare time is converting some of the sample code for Project Hoshimi into J#. There are some high school teachers I know who would like to use it with their Java students. The first thing one learns when taking

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A friend is gone
Saturday, February 18, 2006 1:47 PM

Twenty some years ago a co-worker introduced me to one of his friends. The friend, his name was Clark but everyone called him Corky, worked in another part of the building from me and lived a couple of miles away from where I do. We became close friends.

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Windows Live
Friday, February 17, 2006 10:01 AM

I can't say that I'm all that happy about the way Microsoft names products. This new way of calling everything something that begins with "Windows Live" seems like it is asking for trouble. But it is not my call. One thing I have enjoyed though is using

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Hacking the Vacuum Cleaner
Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:23 PM

I have a Roomba from iRobot that I call George. Now George does a reasonable job but he doesn't seem all that bright. Frankly his method of moving around the room seems a bit too much like a random walk to me. I have been thinking that I could write a

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New Version of Microsoft Anti-spyware
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:01 PM

Windows Defender is now in beta 2. Protect your computer from spyware. And it is free.

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What is (and is not) Office Live
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:48 PM

Interesting article about Office Live from Microsoft Monitor. More at a second article.

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May you live in interesting times
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:07 PM

I am told that the title of this blog is an ancient curse. "Interesting" is one of those words that cuts several ways. Sometimes it means something good. Sometimes something not so good. And sometimes it means something that is just plain different. These

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Ah, snow
Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:29 PM

I love snow. Well it is no fun to drive in and clearing it can be an issue. But other than that I like it. I was starting to worry that we would not have more of it this winter. Wll those fears are gone. It is still snowing and we've had about 10 inches

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Google Copies Microsoft Again
Saturday, February 11, 2006 2:17 PM

Actually again and again. Several times in the last couple of weeks Google has gotten attention for doing things that Microsoft has been doing for months. Dare lists three of them at his blog. Of course it is not really a matter of copying. In general

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Just in Time?
Saturday, February 11, 2006 10:51 AM

I just checked today's date (11 Feb) for something and it hit me. Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary. Obviously not mine alone as I share it with the wonderful woman who has been my wife for 29 years (as of tomorrow). But I don’t have a present for her.

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I've been spoiled
Friday, February 10, 2006 3:07 PM

I spent a couple of days in Austin Texas where the weather each day was between 60 and 75 (18-25 C) and now I'm back home in New Hampshire where it is currently 26 (-3 C) and I'm cold. Now if you live some place warm you're saying "of course you are cold.

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Traveling with Murphy
Wednesday, February 08, 2006 5:55 PM

I’m back in Texas today. Regular readers know that Texas is one of my favorite places to visit. I am in Austin, the capital of Texas, for the first time. It’s a really nice city. Well what of it I’ve seen anyway. Working a conference means one doesn’t

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Quotes of the Day
Monday, February 06, 2006 12:22 PM

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher Sometimes I think we look for to much in the

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Sometimes the days off are the busy ones
Saturday, February 04, 2006 5:32 PM

I have to say that I am pleased with how much I got done today. I had fallen way behind on work on my textbook of late. There has been a lot going on in my life. But today I resolved to catch up. The first issue was that my wife, who if anything has more

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Make your own IM BOT
Friday, February 03, 2006 2:37 PM

Nicole, from the MSN Messenger group (Windows Live Messenger?), has a blog entry about some existing Bots that you can use from MSN Messenger and some suggestions of Bots she would like to see. You may have already heard about the Encarta® Instant Answers

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Plain text or HTML/RTF Email?
Friday, February 03, 2006 12:42 PM

I keep reading and hearing people complain about HTML email messages and asking people to use plain text. I just don't get it. I much prefer HTML or RTF email. It's just so much easier on the eyes. I've had decades of reading non-proportional fonts and

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Open Source Games? From Microsoft?
Friday, February 03, 2006 11:00 AM

An interesting article on the future of computer games. The focus is on ways to let the user modify the game in new and interesting ways.

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OK now for something completely different, no really
Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:49 PM

Rory is making threats to eat junk food if people do not visit his TinyThings web site. Now I would not take the threats seriously. In fact I am not sure how much of anything Rory says I would take seriously. On the other hand if you even think you

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What's it like to be a Dev at Microsoft
Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:42 PM

Steven Sinofsky talks about what being a software developer at Microsoft means. Beign a developer at a company that makes products that millions of people can use is an amazing experience. I was an OS dev for a while years ago and I remember how cool

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The Nerd Boat
Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:25 PM

Microsoft ran a conference on a cruise ship recently. I was supposed to go but had to back out at the last minute because of some family issues. But from this article and this post (which includes pictures) it seems to have gone on well without me. So

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For Everyone Who Gets asked to Fix Computers
Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:04 AM

Today's Dilbert cartoon is for you.

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