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I'm never going to catch up
Sunday, April 30, 2006 8:59 PM

The first thing you have to understand is that I am addicted to email. I admit it. I will wake up in the middle of the night for a drink of water and stop to check my email. So I am never behind in email. Until now. Oh to be sure I have read anything

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The Facebook
Friday, April 28, 2006 4:24 PM

I see that the Facebook is now open to company groups. I've joined up but don't have near enough time to really get into it today. I'm still on vacation although taking the red eye home for Vegas really knocked me out. I could not sleep because my knee

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Vacation is good
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:10 PM

Just a quick note to let you all know that I am still alive. I am having a great time in Las Vegas. Pictures will wait until I get home because I don't have the right cable with me to get them off the camara right now. I've been very good about staying

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WHo is the ubergeek?
Friday, April 21, 2006 4:23 PM

Mr I is the ubergeek. His school and his students are really lucky to have him. Go read his tale of disk hacking and data recovery.

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Vacation
Friday, April 21, 2006 11:58 AM

I always know when I need a vacation. I get all grumpy and whiny and my blog entries are often depressing. Work starts to seem like less fun and all sorts of things just start to bother me. Yes it is that time again. Lucky for me I have some vacation

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Visual Studio Express Announcements
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:07 PM

Check out Dan's blog for all the details. VS Express is now free for ever and not just for the first year. Also lots of new starter kits and interesting and fun starter kits.

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Computer Science Education Day
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:05 PM

[Cross posted from my Computer Science Teacher] blog Brian Scarbeau came up with what I think is a completely wonderful idea (read his proposal here). The short version is that while most subject departments at most schools have annual "days" or "weeks"

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President of China to Visit Microsoft
Monday, April 17, 2006 6:45 PM

Hu Jintao, the president of China, is coming to the US. One of his first stops is Seattle where he will be visiting Microsoft and Boeing. Several reports are that he will be having dinner at Bill Gates' house. Wouldn't you like to know what they talk

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Iron Python - why is it cool?
Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:18 PM

Here is a short 2 minute video with Jim Hugenin that explains what "Python on .NET" is and why it such a cool implimentation of Python. There is some talk about Visual Studio integration to come. Now that may be something cool to use with high school

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Ah, the week end
Friday, April 14, 2006 7:34 PM

Some weeks the fun never stops. Other weeks the work never stops. Sometimes those are the same thing and that is wonderful when it happens. Sometimes it's not all fun and games and then one really needs the week-end. This has been one of those weeks.

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Best Jobs in America
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:36 PM

MONEY Magazine and Salary.com rated careers based on salary and job prospects and CNN reports the results. 1. Software Engineer 7. Computer IT Analyst So apparently someone thinks there are good jobs in computing out there. The number two job was

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Academic Search from Microsoft
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:43 PM

Microsoft announced a new search tool today called Academic Search at http://academic.live.com/ It is in beta and so far is only deep in the areas of computer science, electrical engineering and physics and related areas. The results include both

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Retirement
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:19 AM

I've been thinking about retiring lately. Oh not that I actually can retire now or any time soon. I'm at least 10 years away from that. What I keep thinking about is what will I do to keep busy when I retire? I am afraid that I will let myself just eat,

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What matters for Express?
Saturday, April 08, 2006 6:16 PM

John Montgomery is responsible for the "Software Enthusiast" features for the next version of Visual Studio. Over at his blog he is asking people what should change, should stay the same and how else can Express improve. Do you have answers? Go give them

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It's cold in my house
Friday, April 07, 2006 6:48 AM

I hate waking up in a cold house. It’s not just that I don’t like to be cold although I do hate to be cold. No, the worst part about waking up in a cold house is that it means something is wrong. The house is really not supposed to be cold so if it is

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Port 25 Is Open
Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:34 PM

Port 25 is not just another community web site from Microsoft. This one is run by Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab.

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One more reason you need to know how to write
Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:05 AM

Great post in the Technical Careers at Microsoft Jobs blog today. It is about ways to get noticed by researching recruiters. There are more or less two parts to the advise. One is to become an expert. The other is to get out there and write about what

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A Reason NOT To Get A SmartPhone or Internet PDA
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:00 AM

I read this blog entry last night. Now I'm pretty adicted to email and to blogging but without a SmartPhone I am forced to keep that sort of thing out of the bedroom. And I have to stop to help my wife bring things in from the car. I think if my wife

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Roomba Development Tools
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:42 AM

RoboDynamics has started selling Roomba development kits to help you make the most of programming your Roomba from iRobot. I haven't looked too closely to see what the software pieces are like though.

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Been too busy
Monday, April 03, 2006 12:09 PM

It's been a busy weekend. Nothing at all to do with work for a change. We had a memorial service on Saturday for my mother in law who passed away recently. There were quite a few family and friends who came to our house after the service in the church

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Be careful today
Saturday, April 01, 2006 7:44 AM

It is April First - a day known for pulling pranks on people. The Internet has a long tradition of people putting out hoax emails, blog post, and other tricks on people.

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