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Microsoft Exposed?
Friday, June 30, 2006 11:35 AM

The Microsoft College Recruiting site has a cute video about Microsoft. Soma (blog) as it turns out can be very funny. I've been in a couple of meetings with him and he tends to listen very carefully, ask very good (other tough) questions and generally

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Are you going to the Imagine Cup?
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:54 AM

I'm not going. I have mixed feelings about that because I really would like to visit India (among a bunch of places) but I also have other plans for this summer. My friend and fellow team member, Diane, is going. She writes a bit about it at her blog.

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Home and yet not home
Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:02 PM

As I said earlier I am visiting my father at his home in the village of East Hampton. You may actually heard of this little village or at least the area which is known as "The Hamptons" these days. The hotlink for the village shows a bunch of historical

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Home Again
Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:32 AM

I'm in my home town - the town we lived in when I was born - this weekend. We moved away when I was 5 but returned for a number of years for vacations until my mother died when I was ten. But my father owned a piece of property here and about 15 years

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Busy, busy, busy
Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:59 PM

I've actually been blogging a lot lately. Just not here. I'm sorry about that. I've found a couple of interesting things to blog about at my Social Computing blog lately. Sometimes I just get on a role with somethings I want to talk about but it is all

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Windows Live Messenger
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:12 PM

Have you seen the latest video demo of Windows Live Messenger at On 10? Looks pretty cool. I really need to try the PC to PC calling though.

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Are you interested in robots?
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:15 PM

Microsoft announced a new robotics program including a development environment called the Microsoft Robotics Studio this week. The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create

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Happy Father's Day
Sunday, June 18, 2006 5:09 PM

So does the rest of the world mark Father's Day today or is that just the US? So far it't been a pretty good day. My son and I went out in the kayaks into Portsmouth harbor. The one in New Hampshire USA and not the English namesake. It was a nice day

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Bill and Steve on Channel 9
Friday, June 16, 2006 10:42 AM

There is an interview with Bill and Steve about Bill stepping down on Channel 9.

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Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie
Friday, June 16, 2006 6:47 AM

The things that happen when you are travelling and out of touch. While I was on my way home from Atlanta Georgia (really from Kennesaw State University north of Atlanta) Microsoft had a big press announcement that Bill Gates is stepping down over a two

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Never underestimate the value of a conversation
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:22 PM

Working out of my home I don’t get a lot of real conversations in an average day. There is a lot of email, a good bit of Instant Messaging (I have an IM going in another window right now actually) but I don’t get to talk to people face to face every day.

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Who will be the next Robert Scoble?
Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:49 PM

It's a silly question really. Robert Scoble (who is a famous Microsoft blogger who is leaving Microsoft in a couple of weeks) is unique. One doesn't hire someone and say "you go do what Scoble does and make the top 25 in the Technorati 100." It's not

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Marketing The Academy
Friday, June 09, 2006 5:32 PM

Apparently a lot of colleges are working hard to attract students. Kevin Schofield writes about one such university at the Education Blog at On10. Penn State is trying to remake the school's image as "chic" according to this article. Recently a mild competition

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Are you ready to follow the World Cup?
Friday, June 09, 2006 2:43 PM

Interesting little gadget from Microsoft (download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=df6a6e6e-21af-4786-ad1d-a38e8bfda82f&DisplayLang=en) that lets you keep track of who is playing who, who is winning and even add an RSS

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ASP .NET Web Hosting and Contest
Friday, June 09, 2006 12:01 AM

There doesn't appear to be much activity at the ASP .NET Web hosting link here at theSpoke. Or am I just missing something? If I were allowed to enter I'd be working on a web site for this contest. Those of you who have finished up with school for the

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When old things become new again
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:18 PM

I sometimes wonder if anyone ever comes up with really new things in computer software anymore. Some twembnty years ago I used to work with a thin client. It was what we called a dumb terminal. It was connected to a large computer somewhere else in the

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Who is that guy?
Monday, June 05, 2006 5:32 PM

At some risk to my ego I looked up my old yearbooks from college and high school and scanned in the pictures. High School - Senior year 1971 http://thespoke.net/photos/alfredtwo/picture960610.aspx College - senior year 1975 http://thespoke.net/photos/alfredtwo/picture960611.aspx

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This is going to be good
Monday, June 05, 2006 2:16 PM

As some of you know there is a blog on education at the On10.net web site. You may also know that I post there occasionally. But today a third member of that group blog started his participation. Joe Wilson kicked off his first post at the Education Blog

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I hate computers
Sunday, June 04, 2006 5:00 PM

I love software but these hardware people have a lot to learn about ease of use. I have a couple of older laptops that aren't quite working. One of them is actually powerful and loaded even by modern standards even though it is at least 5 years old. But

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Word 2007
Friday, June 02, 2006 10:47 PM

So I bit the bullet today and installed Beta 2 of Office 2007 on one of my machines. It looks really cool. It's different though and that is taking a while to get used to. But I think its going to be worth it. One of the things that Word 2007 does is

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Valet Parking and Tablet Hints
Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:52 AM

I see in the papers that Microsoft has added free valet parking for some buildings on campus. Construction has made parking near some buildings very difficult as spaces are taken away by construction equipment and related materials. People spend enough

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