| 1. |  | The Venting Game  - Captured: 23-1-2005 15:15:41
As all large corporations Microsoft also has a few execs who see little of what comes
from their work. Thats the problem with living the 40 000 feet scenario continuously.
On the other hand there are these others who have never understood that 40 000 above
reality is pretty high and some greasy details never make it there. The problem here
is misunderstanding. While the execs get news papers to communicate with the folks
below 40 000 feet, the rest of the world never get...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 2. | | Mount St. Helens Pictures - Captured: 7-10-2004 15:33:00
Apologies about the lack of blogging over the past two months. I will get back to it soon, I've just been unfortunately swamped. Anyway, the USGS has a set of really amazing photos of Mount St. Helens from the past few days. Well worth the look. They come in sizes up to 650x400 pixels and so, and look terrific as desktop backgrounds. (Link) Update:
There are volcano pics from Thursday at the link above, I'd suggest checking there for more content. :-)
From: aaron's weblog |
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| 3. | | ASP.NET Connections - Captured: 31-1-2005 13:49:00
In March, we are sending several members of the product team to lovely Orlando to speak at the ASP.NET Connections conference. DevConnections consistently puts on one of most educational and entertaining regional shows and provides great access directly to industry experts as well as Microsoft experts. I know I always learn a lot and have a great time at the connections shows - I definitely reccommend checking it out. You can learn more at http://www.devconnections.com/
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 4. | | Meta Products Download Express - Captured: 22-1-2005 8:28:00
Meta Products Download Express is a download accelerator for both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firebox. I have installed the add-in for both browsers. The installation was seemless and could be done when both browsers were open but you needed to close the browsers and re-open them to make use of Download Express's new features. Download Express certainly seemed to make a significant impact on the couple of files I downloading as a test. I was getting pretty much a 100% increase on download sp...
From: VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com |
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| 5. | | Which is easier to read... - Captured: 5-11-2004 16:49:00
... in other words, which is easier to maintain?
chunk = chunk.PadRight(4, " "c).ToLower
-- Or --
chunk = LCase(Left(chunk & Space(4), 4))
I'm converting (or rather resurrecting) some code from VB6 to build a library for some fellow .NET developers and am going through the process of porting various pieces over where it makes sense. ...
From: AddressOf.com |
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| 6. | | Geeking out on Bluetooth - Captured: 4-2-2005 6:40:45
Now that I appear to have a cell phone that actually works, I have been enjoying a
very cool feature.
My phone is Bluetooth-enabled. Bluetooth is a short-range radio protocol that allows
devices to communicate with each other. It basically creates a "personal area network"
by which your various devices (phone, PDA, laptop, earphones, microphone, whatever)
can talk to each other.
Both my laptop and PDA are also Bluetooth enabled, so they can talk to my phone. ...
From: Visions of Shadow and Light |
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| 7. | | More cell phone fun - Captured: 28-1-2005 18:42:57
Yesterday
my newest replacement phone arrived. This is replacement number 3, phone number 4.
To recap my fun thus far:
Phone 1 locked up with increasing
frequency
Replacement 1 had physical damage,
including the display not working reliably
Replacement 2 had worn contacts
and so didn't charge reliably, nor could it be connected to my computer (and Bluetooth
wasn't enabled)
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From: Visions of Shadow and Light |
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| 8. | | Is It A Distraction Or Procrastination? - Captured: 10-2-2005 11:24:44
The New York Times has a very interesting article about computer distractions. There have been articles about this before. Thanks to computers and the internet, it's so easy to be doing something else, whether that's checking email, instant messaging, fiddling with your music collection, or just surfing the web. The Times piece focuses on the idea of getting people into a "flow" state and making sure that interruptions and distraction only occur when people aren't in a flow state. For exampl...
From: Techdirt |
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| 9. | | Blogging in Bermuda Redux - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:38
My Bermuda blogvangelism trip was certainly a treat in many ways, not the least of which was how much I learned. One thing that is so humbling about these Read/Write Web technologies is that despite knowing some of them very well, there is so much yet to explore and understand. And having the opportunity to give workshops to motivated and enthusiastic teachers like the ones at the Whitney Middle School give me an opportunity to learn from them, which is half if not most of the fun. I feel very f...
From: Weblogg-ed |
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| 10. | | Threading in VB.NET - Captured: 10-2-2005 15:32:00
A few people have been asking me how to build threading into their applications to improve the applications responsiveness and/or perceived performance. Rather then rehash what's already been well written about, here's a few articles that I suggest reading:
Ted Pattison has done a series of articles on the subject for the Basic Instincts column in MSDN Magazine.
Implementing Callback Notifications Using Delegates (Part 1)
Implementing Callback Notifications Using Delegates (Part 2)
A...
From: AddressOf.com |
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| 11. | | My Yahoo Subscriber Numbers - Captured: 11-2-2005 22:57:23
After publishing our initial RSS market share findings a couple of weeks ago, we received a number of emails from publishers and other interested parties cross-checking our numbers and asking for further detail on our report. A number of these emails asked us to look into supposed anomalies, and we have followed up on all of these requests. As we double checked inquiries against our statistics, we repeatedly found that our numbers accurately reflected the data we were processing, but there was o...
From: Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog |
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| 12. | | The Cricket Club Café, Colpetty, Colombo 3, Sri Lanka - Captured: 12-2-2005 16:01:00
Another pleasant evening in Colombo was spent in the Cricket Club Café (CCC) which we introduced to Ken, a Canadian, who had just arrived in Sri Lanka to work. Ken had contacted me via my blog , this afternoon, and we arranged to meet at the CCC at 17:30. Helen, my wife, and myself spent a very enjoyable couple of hours chatting to Ken and I hope he enjoyed it just as much :) Ken & myself had the Chilli crab which, as always, was excellent and Helen had Nachos which she enjoyed. Ken &am...
From: VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com |
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| 13. | | Flipping Coins To See The Future? - Captured: 14-2-2005 9:08:53
How can you resist writing about a bunch of scientists who think they've figured out a way to (just slightly) predict the future? Found over at Slashdot is this story about a series of "black boxes" that generate random numbers and seem to go slightly non-random during big events... and sometimes even goes slightly non-random right before really big events -- or so the article claims. As you might imagine, there are a lot of skeptics out there, and many of them are found in Slashdot's comments...
From: Techdirt |
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| 14. | | Italian DJ Fined 1.4 Million Euros For MP3s - Captured: 17-2-2005 2:02:04
While most of the stories about the recording industry cracking down on unauthorized MP3s focus on home users, it looks like they're checking out more professional MP3 abusers as well. Over in Italy, a DJ has been fined $1.4 million euros for copyright infringement. Police said that he had 2,000 MP3s and 500 music videos on his computer. However, what's unclear from the story is where these files came from. Were they files that he had made from CDs and DVDs he had purchased, or were they all...
From: Techdirt |
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| 15. | | EveryDNS - Captured: 17-2-2005 7:42:40
http://www.everydns.net I've been utilizing the services of EveryDNS for quite some time now, and have found them to be extremely reliable. I would highly recommend checking them out for primary or secondary DNS services. They have four DNS servers spread out over the world, and best of all, their services are totally free! They do request donations to help defer the costs of operation, and I think that a donation is well worth the quality of service they provide.
Enjoy.
Jeff
From: nethub.org |
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| 16. | | Malliddon’s Prophecy Expansion - Captured: 17-2-2005 16:51:59
Malliddon's Prophecy Expansion
Originally uploaded by seanabrady.
Perseverance!! I have been waiting and occasionally checking TRUS, Target , and occasionally Wal-Mart for these expansion packs. Well, last night a trip to Wal-Mart for cat litter yielded a much better prize. A single set of all 4 blister packs in stock.
I was pretty [...]
From: Gaming in Pearland |
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| 17. | | checking in - Captured: 18-2-2005 5:48:24
Quick update from the streets of Manhattan, wifi is everywhere! Using a
free hotspot in a hotel coffeeshop on 44th street, love that.
Weather is nice, meetings are fun and educational, still buzzing from
the biddies. Tonite I have time to play catch up on email and will be
podcasting from the room or maybe street if it doesn't rain.
From: CURRY.COM |
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| 18. | | Make your application part of the VS 2005 / .NET F/X 2.0 test suite - Captured: 18-2-2005 9:15:00
Jay Roxe is working to identify 3rd party applications (your applications) to use at tests for VS2005 -- get all the details here, it is worth checking out -- some benefits from his blog are: Microsoft will test your application on the latest Whidbey bits. The degree of this testing will vary from application to application based on compatibility requirements being tested. Microsoft will report to you the pass/fail result along with the issues in the application ...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 19. | | Checking Back In On The VoIP For Life Folks -- Still Ticking, For Now - Captured: 22-2-2005 20:36:34
A couple months back, some company came out with the gimmick of offering VoIP for life for $1,000. You can assume, of course, that the "for life" part is more likely to refer to the life of the company, rather than the customer. In fact, as we noted at the time, this company now has the incentive to sign up a few customers, and then quickly go out of business, because those customers all become a liability. It appears, however, that the company has convinced about 400 people to sign up, though...
From: Techdirt |
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| 20. | | FeedForAll, an RSS Feed Creation Tool, Makes Content Syndication Easy for Everyone - Captured: 27-2-2005 22:06:56
FeedForAll, a software tool designed to create, edit and publish RSS feeds, has been released by NotePage, Inc. Now, with FeedForAll, webmasters have the ability to create new RSS feeds from scratch, or modify and enhance existing RSS feeds.
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication, an XML format for distributing news headlines on the Web. RSS has evolved into a popular means to syndicate headlines and share content on the Internet.
FeedForAll...
From: An RSS Blog - Daily News and Information Related to RSS Feeds, Syndication and Aggregation. |
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| 21. | | Gotdotnet, the uptimes and the downtimes - which is Feb 28th to be precise - Captured: 27-2-2005 18:58:00
Hi all, I'm blogging this on the eve of our next Workspaces code drop: some performance fixes, a couple interface tweaks having to do with the FAQ, a subtle Gotdotnet home page change, and a majority of the bugs you've seen in Workspaces (knock on formica) nailed. Because we did not manage to make the January drop due to angry hardware, and that set back our timeframes, this February drop does not nail ALL the Workspace bugs as we had hoped. However, at this time tomorrow, we hope you will see t...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 22. | | Everybodys favorite topic - NULL - Captured: 28-2-2005 14:18:00
In V1 of .net, value types could not be null. Since, this was contradictory to relational databases use of null, the DataSet needed to have a concept of nullable value types – hence DBNull was invented. DBNull is simple type in the System namespace. It does not have a constructor, but a static method (DBNull.Value) that returns a singleton instance of the class. Even though it is designed to support relational database scenarios, it does not support 3 part logic. ...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 23. | | What happened during February 2005 at vbCity - Captured: 2-3-2005 10:00:00
Each month I try to post a personal review of what happened at vbCity during the previous month and this month is no exception :)
Helper Of The Month (HOTM)
Congratulations to Larry Blake Larry Blake for winning the February 2005 HOTM in another close contest, that ended up even closer than last month. At the beginning of the month at least 6 posters had a good chance of winning the award. And even on the last day of the month 3 posters could still conceivably have won. Larry hung on with jus...
From: VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com |
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| 24. | | ChoicePoint Sold Info To Scammers In The Past Without Disclosing - Captured: 3-3-2005 2:23:57
Since ChoicePoint has been getting tons of attention for handing out personal info to a bunch of scammers without actually checking their backgrounds, the company has been pleading with the public that they've learned their lesson and will be changing their policies. However, the news is coming out today that ChoicePoint was caught doing the exact same thing a few years ago -- leading to a number of identity theft problems. Apparently ChoicePoint didn't learn their lesson that time. The diffe...
From: Techdirt |
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| 25. | | Check Out An Audio Book On An iPod - Captured: 4-3-2005 2:24:15
Rather than checking out tapes of audio books, one library in NY (total random aside: it's a library I used to go to quite often growing up) has apparently started offering patrons an iPod Shuffle with the audio books on them already. They had looked at offering books-on-iPods before, but they were too expensive. The cheaper Shuffle is apparently perfect for holding a single book. In fact, the library says it saves them money, since the electronic versions of the audio books are much cheaper ...
From: Techdirt |
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