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February 2004 - Posts

Burritos

Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:04 PM by aaronbrethorst
I'm sure that most of you don't care about this, especially since it has nothing to do with technology whatsoever, but I am very excited to announce that a Chipotle (!!!!!) will be opening in Seattle sometime soon. Yay! I've been missing gigantic Chipotle Read More...
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Joel Spolsky

Posted Friday, February 27, 2004 9:58 AM by aaronbrethorst
I don't think I've mentioned here how much I love Joel Spolsky . So, let me just make this clear: I think Joel's absolutely hilarious (not to mention quite smart). Back in the early 90s, he was a Program Manager in Excel. Since then, he founded his own Read More...
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VSIP Partner Summit

Posted Monday, February 23, 2004 9:37 PM by aaronbrethorst
I just got to have dinner with a ton of our VSIP Partners in Bellevue this evening. To everyone I talked to tonight: thanks a lot for telling me about what you've been up to, and for offering your thoughts on what we can do better (and for those of you Read More...
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Cool development technologies

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:17 AM by aaronbrethorst
I think most people by now have heard about the complaints being registered about how it seems like every Microsoft blogger is talking about Whidbey, Longhorn, or other future technologies. I'm certainly guilty of this at times. There's no question about Read More...
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iTunes 4.2

Posted Sunday, February 08, 2004 7:23 PM by aaronbrethorst
Wow, Apple just completely redeemed themselves in my eyes with iTunes 4.2 on Windows. I've been trying to avoid reinstalling iTunes for a while now just because it makes me into a borderline psychotic to see a company that prides itself on design (Apple) Read More...
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Design from the other side of the pond

Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 2:37 PM by aaronbrethorst
I got to hear a former Sony designer (also a veteran of Apple's HIG) talk at MS Research today. He had a lot of interesting things to say, and he had a few interesting anecdotes about verbal jousting with Ken Kutaragi, the guy who came up with PlayStation Read More...
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William Gibson

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:05 PM by aaronbrethorst
William Gibson, of Neuromancer fame, is speaking at Microsoft today (actually, in a half-hour). I'm sitting in the front row of a lecture room waiting for his talk to begin. I was quite saddened that I forgot my copy of Pattern Recognition at home today, Read More...
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