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My "New" House
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:23 PM

Well it's not really a new house. We've lived here for 27 years now but we've done a lot of work on it lately. This is what it looks like today now that the landscapers are pretty much all done. A week ago a large tree would have prevented me from getting

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Stop and smell the lunch
Monday, October 30, 2006 2:55 PM

One of the nice things about working from home is that I can prepare good tasting food anytime I want. It costs much less than eating out. It always fits into my diet (I've lost almost 20 pounds so far) and I can eat just about anytime I want. On the

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Where I have been
Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:04 AM

Countries create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands That list is far too short. There are so many countries I want to visit. My cousin wants to visit Norway with me. I have been there once before but I really want to go again.

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Off My Game a Bit
Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:36 AM

My blogging productivity is way down this week. I have blogged a few times in my high school computer science blog but almost nothing here or in my blog at Windows Live Spaces. I feel something of an obligation to blog at the blog at MSDN because that

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Why I Don't Build My Own Computers
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:40 AM

This post started as a comment on The Old New Thing blog where he talked about the trials of upgrading his home computer when the mother board died. To start off, I got tired of installing hardware back in the early 80s and pretty much just buy a new

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Feeling Old
Sunday, October 22, 2006 10:35 PM

Lately I have been feeling a bit old. I think that part of it is that I keep being in the company of people who think 15-20 years of experience in the computer field is a long time. I guess there was a time when I probably would have agreed but that was

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The Editor as Teacher
Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:48 AM

Didith has a great post that compares editors to hairdressers, makup artists and other talented people who make others look as good as they can look. I have had the chance to work with professional editors on several occasions including three textbooks

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Ms. Dewey
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:03 PM

Ms. Dewey is a search engine with attitude. This is seriously not your old school search engine.

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Fall in New England
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:17 PM

This picture doesn't do it justice but it gives a taste of a New England Fall. This was taken with my phone camera from the 6th floor balcony of the Microsoft office in Waltham MA just outside of Boston. Yes, that is the vew with almost no buildings

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Girls Know How to Party
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:04 PM

OK I feel a bit uncomfortable using the word "girls" for adult women but this post about the recent Hopper Conference uses it so that's my excuse. I know a couple of people who sent to this (Diane is one and writes about it on her blog) and they all seem

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COBOL Lives
Monday, October 16, 2006 10:33 PM

Do you know COBOL? It's a programming language that most people think of as a dead langauge. I was at a meeting tonight with people from a number of companies. Well one was a government concern and the other an Ma insurance concern. Both were talking

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Flight Simulator X
Monday, October 16, 2006 3:55 PM

A short video showing two different planes landing at an airport. On one side a real airplane and on the other a virtual plane in Microsoft Flight Simularor X. There was a time with realism no where near that good cost millions of dollars to create.

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Distortion
Sunday, October 15, 2006 12:05 PM

I found this interesting video today as a link from this blog. It's pretty amazing. It show the transformation of a model first using makeup and hair style but then ending with photo editing that adds still more changes to her face and neck. The question

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New Bloggers at On10
Friday, October 13, 2006 12:07 AM

Some of you know On10, the site Microsoft runs for technology enthusiasts. There are some new bloggers there now and it is getting more of an international flair. Nic Fillingham is an Aussie based in Singapore. Benjamin Gauthey is French, apparently

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Back in the Classroom
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:20 PM

I taught a class tonight. It was something a little different for me. My wife teaches a GED preperation course and needed someone to take her place because of a conflict. So I stepped in. My wife had written the lesson plan and prepared worksheets for

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How to Answer the Coding Interview Question
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:21 AM

Diane has a great post that explains how she answers the infamous "code this" question on a job interview. I highly recommend the post for two reasons. One is the obvious "this is good advice for answering the question on the interveiw" but the other

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Geek Fun
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:18 PM

01000111 01100101 01100101 01101011 01110011 00100000 01101111 01101110 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01101100 01111001 So a while back I played with a message that was written in

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The Season of Color
Monday, October 09, 2006 8:05 PM

Winter where I live is the season of black and white. That which is not covered with snow is some shade of black. In spring there is a transition as green starts to replace much of the white and hides much of the black. Summer is a lot of green with blue

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Shoes
Monday, October 09, 2006 7:59 PM

OK I don't understand women and shoes. I have three pair of shoes One for casual wear one for dress wear and a pair of boots. That seems like plenty to me. My wife on the otherhand has a lot more than that. Plus women's shoes seem to wear out faster than

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Clearification
Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:51 AM

http://www.clearification.com/ is an interesting site. The fact that there is a Windows Vista logo and the character uses the word Vista suggests some sort of marketing thing. But the commentary and the first webispode that is published is

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The FAQ answers the wrong questions
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:48 AM

Well to be honest the "F" stands for "frequently" and I have a very infrequent question. Microsoft bought a company this week. They buy companies fairly regularly but this one is near to where I live. The last time they did this they took and moved the

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Diet Update
Monday, October 02, 2006 10:29 AM

Back in August my doctor told me I needed to lose weight. That is not an easy message to take because I really like eating. It's been just over 6 weeks since then but I have managed to lose about 18 pounds (about 8 kilos) so far. I'm about half way

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A picture of my project
Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:57 PM

Here are the shelves I spent much of yesterday customizing to fit into the available space. It's not the best picture in the world but it was taken with my SmartPhone and not a real camera.

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