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Context Sensitive Reality
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:25 PM

There was snow in the Seattle/Redmond area last night. From what I understand they had about 4 inches of snow and Microsoft's main campus is more or less shut down. Driving home last night was a nightmare for a lot of people. Now to be fair I understand

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Viva Las Vegas
Sunday, November 26, 2006 5:00 PM

Well this has been a longer time than usual for me to go without blogging. My wife and I took a vacation to Las Vegas and for five whole days I didn't really connect to the Internet at all. I sort of kept up with email using my Treo (running Windows Mobile

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A New World of Shopping
Monday, November 20, 2006 12:58 PM

Christmas shopping is a big deal for my wife and I. Well more for her as she is the one who does almost all of it. This year we are almost done with our shopping and it is more than a month left until Christmas. The thing that is even more amazing though

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Cooking v. Preparing a Meal
Friday, November 17, 2006 1:39 PM

There are a couple of things that have subtle differences. Driving v. steering a car for example. Cooking v. just preparing a meal. And then there is programming v. assembling pieces. I've been thinking about this since some discussions in my CS teacher

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XNA Video Samples
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:32 PM

Major Nelson of Xbox 360 fame announced a video montage of some XNA Game Studio Express games that people have been developing. The video is optimized for Zune even! Dave "LetsKillDave" Weller explains the video on his blog. People are already doing some

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Office 2007 To Understand Aussie
Monday, November 13, 2006 8:36 PM

I see that some words of Australian "informal language" will be part of the dictionary. So words like G'day, sickie, ute, trackies and bogan will not show up as spelling errors. I have no idea what most of those words mean though. I will have to

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A New Way to look at collections of pictures
Thursday, November 09, 2006 5:49 PM

Have you seen Photosynth yet? Picture a collection of pictures taken at different times and different people and put together to let you see travel through a location in three dimensions. The CTP is up now. Right now you can't make your own collection

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The Run is Broken
Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:37 AM

I took three trips in a row that had delays bad enough that I had to spend an unplanned overnight stay somewhere either on my way to some place or my way home. Two of them involved Chicago which is where I had to go this week. For some reason I foolishly

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Chili Time
Saturday, November 04, 2006 5:19 PM

I made some Chili last night. Chili is an interesting food on many levels. If you read the Wikipedia article you'll get some idea of the controversy that can be attached to it. There are almost unlimited variations and everyone who really likes chili

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Researchers: OpenOffice.org Security 'Insufficient'
Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:35 PM

I read an interesting article this morning on software security. There are some key learnings here. One of the is the suggestion that the Open Office people should have learned from some of the problems that Microsoft has already had and worked to solve.

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Great Turkey Comeback
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:05 AM

I used to wonder why anyone would care about their phone being able to take pictures. Then I got a Treo 700W which does take pictures. Now all of a sudden I keep finding things worth taking pictures of. Below is a picture of a wild turkey I saw this morning.

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