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Those who know me know I haven't been overly thrilled with the Seattle area and what I've seen of Washington in general as it's just too big/crowded/busy of a place. The news last week of the Washington Governor being refused entry to a bar...
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The laptop I use today is a rather slow Gateway M275 tablet device which is really only useful to me as a remote desktop client to the faster PC in my second bedroom and when I got an email this evening advertising a great deal on a laptop I was interested...
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Grrr. Yesterday my Xbox 360 started to have some issues with 3d rendering (2d and overlays were still fine) when playing Call of Duty 4. This issue also manifested itself when testing with Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and Halo 3 and quickly manifests itself even...
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Since starting at Microsoft I have found myself spending more time on email than ever before... so much so that I now find myself wanting a way to check my work email anytime/anywhere... the perfect job for a smartphone... so the hunt has been on and...
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Like many I wish our politicians could just get along and when they fly off the handle I too often times just shrug and wish I could vote them out... last night though I heard something that got my blood boiling and that couldn't be ignored. Last...
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Last weekend I ran across an episode of When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions and was... awestruck, completely and utterly dumbfounded... even as I (slowly) write this blog post I have to do so only during the commercials because the footage is incredible...
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I had a bunch of dll's I had checked out of a subversion repo that needed to have the execute bit set on them. Enter the find command. I have never had a great grasp on how to use find, but finally my laziness got the best of me such that I not only...
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With the recent public release the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 it is imperative that any users of Tab Manager take special care when upgrading to avoid being incessantly nagged . Problem Due to changes in the way the Console...
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What's worse than hearing multiple voices in your head? Trying to speak with multiple voices. The time has come to split my blogging as I now find myself having two separate voices... Brendan Grant, Software Development Engineer on the Windows Home...
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git alias's are very handy and powerful. Frequently I want to look through the log and have a quick view of who did what, so I created this alias git config --global --add alias.who-did-what 'log --pretty="format:%an - %s"' the output...
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eCRM uses several open source projects. When the open source project changes I need to get those changes, build the code on my machine and then copy the new dll's into eCRM's DependentFiles/<ProjectName> folder. I have this somewhat automated...
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Yesterday a little known aniversery came and went with little notice in the blogsphere... largely because I was too busy to celebrate it... until now. What is this anniversary? Two years ago I began a weight loss campaign that has been fairly successful...
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This morning I realized that one month ago yesterday (3/24) I arrived bright and early to building 43 on the Microsoft campus to begin NEO ( New Employee Orientation ) and to begin my career with Microsoft. What a month it's been. While all of the...
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Scott Hanselman started a little meme called the Alt.net Geek Code generator. Check out his post here for the details. For the record, here's my alt.net geek code. Click the link to view. IOC(CW):MOC(RM):TDD(NU):TDD(Xu):TDD(Mb):SCC(Svn):SCC(Git):ORM...
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Check out this post by Steve Harman He explains some of what we talked about on Saturday night far more eloquently than I ever could. And if you need some help explaining to your boss why you want to to do this it might help. There seems to be a fair...