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Power Toys for Visual Studio
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:49 PM

Have you read about the new Power Toys for Visual Studio yet? Sara Ford talks about them a bit on her blog. These toys, tools really, have been released as shared source at the http://codeplex.com web site. Shared source means that the code is available

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Live Life Like You Were Living
Sunday, May 28, 2006 3:43 PM

There is a song that is popular on the radio where I live that is called “Live Like You Were Dieing”. It talks about a man who finds out that he doesn’t have much time to live so he does a bunch of things he’d always wanted to do. At one point in the

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Things are quiet around here
Friday, May 26, 2006 12:30 AM

I haven't been blogging much here lately. I'm not sure why. I have been posting pretty much regularly in work related blogs (Computer Science Teacher blog and Education Blog at On10) and I've been a little more active than usual in my social computing

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Brooklyn Tech - where I went to high school
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:44 PM

Someone built a virtual tour of the high school I went to. Very cool. Note that the autotorium can be visited from each of the lower 4 floors. It's big. The whole thing makes me want to go back for a visit. I have not been there in person in over 34

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Hi Tech Work Out
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:59 AM

I joined a health club in January. I made my first actual visit there on Monday. Long story as to why it has taken so long to get started but the important thing is that I got started. Right? I went for an orientation workout with a trainer on Monday

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Hack your car
Monday, May 22, 2006 6:29 PM

I really don't spend enough time at On10. Today I stopped by and saw this great video of a car computer. GPS, Directions, multi-media and more under computer control with a touch screen.

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What about the boys?
Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:14 PM

Just in case anyone is interested I have joined the group blog at On10.net/Education for occasional posts. My first one is there now and is about the decline in male enrollment in American universities. There are others blogging there and if you don't

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In praise of small colleges
Friday, May 19, 2006 3:25 PM

I found this blog entry pretty interesting. The short version is that smaller colleges and universities send a much higher percentage of their female students on to PhD programs than large research schools. Apparently they get more attention and

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Home at last
Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:10 PM

There is a reason I don't fly United if I can help it. In two words customer service. When my flight was canceled last night there was no announcement at the gate where it was supposed to leave from. If I hadn't kept checking the monitors (why should

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The Joy Of Travel
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:57 PM

If one travels enough one is bound to run into difficulties from time to time. I travel enough and this is one such story. Chicago is known as the windy city and sometimes that wind (and related weather) makes flying into and out of Chicago's Airport

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Want to program a Messenger Bot and win $40,000
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 6:46 PM

Microsoft is challenging people directly to create bots for MSN® Messenger and Windows Live™ Messenger. The most original, useful robots collect $40,000 in total prizes. There is a lot of information about this at the web list. Looks like fun.

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More on the weather
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:08 PM

Well I continue to be in Tempe Az visiting ASU. ASU won the sumo bot competition at MEDC that Rob Miles wrote about the other day and they are very proud of that fact. This is the second year in a row that they have won so apparently they know something

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Live from Tempe AZ - where it is HOT
Sunday, May 14, 2006 5:58 PM

One of the things it is easy to forget at times is that the US is big. And with that big comes a wide variety of geography and all that means. Among other things that means weather is different. I live in New Hampshire which is in low mountains, reasonably

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Career Sweet Spot
Friday, May 12, 2006 4:53 PM

One last post before the weekend. I will be travelling Sunday and will most likely be busy all day on Saturday. Things continue to be busy and interesting in my personal and professional life. I spent a lot of time in the first part of the year thinking

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10 Rules of Egoless Programming
Friday, May 12, 2006 4:47 PM

I like the idea of egoless programming and have since I first heard the term a bunch of years ago. Today I found a link to 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming and thought them worth sharing. Personally I think that number 2 might be the most important.

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Whose fault is it?
Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:12 AM

I've been reading a lot of blogs lately that beat up Microsoft when a Microsoft web site doesn't work with Firefox. I have to admit that I don't understand why they blame Microsoft for what are clearly flaws in Firefox. There are pages at theSpoke

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Who pays for a university education in your country?
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:57 PM

I know that a lot of people who read this blog are from outside the US (which makes this site so much more valuable and interesting) so I thought I would take advantage of this to learn something about a university education in other places. I started

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Share Your OPML
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:15 AM

Have you seen Share Your OPML yet? People export the blog subscription lists from there RSS reader and share them on this site. You can see what blogs are the most subscribed to, who subscribes to the most blogs, and most interesting to me - who else

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Student Beta Experiments!
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:45 AM

Do you like to stay on the leading edge of technology? Are you always looking at web sites and magazines for information about Windows Vista and the upcoming new version of Microsoft Office? If so then we have a web site for you - http://www.room4experiments.com

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Why you need a degree is CS or SE
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 6:12 PM

Interesting article from David Lemphers on Why you should have a degree in computer science or computer engineering. Short answer - professionalism. That and transferable skill, better and more widely usable problem solving ability and better software

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Old man in the land of the young
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:57 PM

OK so maybe I'm not so old. My wife objects to me using that word for myself but sometimes it feels right as a relative term. When I was a school boy my Dad told me that there would be times in my life where people younger than me would be my boss. I

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Nice to be home
Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:00 PM

I got home from my latest trip (this one to Redmond) last night. I haven't spent any low stress time at home for about two weeks what with business, vacation and family business travel going on. I'm home for a week before I go away again. Last night my

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Microsoft Digital Photo Contest
Friday, May 05, 2006 12:17 PM

Microsoft is sponsoring a digital photo contest. Top prize is $20,000 which goes a long way. The contest is open to college students 18 years old and older. Pictures must be entered online by May 31st so you may want to get started.

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US Imagine Cup Tomorrow
Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:39 PM

What a week I've had. I jumped right back into work after my vacation by flying out to Redmond on Monday. The nex tthree days were full of meetings which finally ended at about 17.00 today. I went out to dinner with a couple of members of my group and

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Late night phone calls
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:19 AM

When the phone rings at 2AM it means one of two things. Someone on the west coast forgot to think about different time zones or something has gone wrong. Or both I guess. In my case the call was to tell me that my 5:30 AM flight was not going to happen

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