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Smartphone Development Resources

Posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:33 AM by aaronbrethorst
It almost goes without saying that I'm completely addicted to my Windows Mobile-based phone. I have an Audiovox SMT 5600, which runs Windows Mobile 2003 and has support built in for the .Net Compact Framework. There's something wonderfully compelling Read More...
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Halo 2 Has Gone Gold!!!

Posted Monday, October 11, 2004 1:13 PM by aaronbrethorst
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=GoneGoldAnnouncer&p=811577 I want to congratulate all of the flaming ninjas over at Bungie, you guys rock! Man, I can't wait until this ships! :-) Read More...
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Mount St. Helens Pictures

Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:33 PM by aaronbrethorst
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 Read More...
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Review Time

Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 1:53 AM by aaronbrethorst
I finally just finished writing my annual performance review. I've been working on this thing for the past few days in fits and spurts, but I really needed to have it done for my meeting with my Lead Program Manager, Jason, later this morning. In other Read More...
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Slashdot

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 9:46 PM by aaronbrethorst
Apparently I wasn't the only person to link to Chris Pratley's phenomenal blog entry about the history of Word today. I just discovered that Chris's blog entry appeared on the front page of Slashdot earlier today. It's shocking I didn't notice this before, Read More...
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The Microsoft Way

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:21 PM by aaronbrethorst
From Chris Pratley : “ So, that in a nutshell is the Microsoft method. Understand the market, and the customers, and then go pedal to the metal, with release after release focused on what the customers need, incorporating their feedback.” Read More...
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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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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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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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U of Minnesota Recruiting Wrapup

Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 10:35 PM by aaronbrethorst
I have been really bad about blogging in the past week because it's just been nuts for me. Unlike Scoble, blogging tends to be the first thing I cut from my daily list of activities (a double-edged sword, for sure). In any case, I imagine that I will Read More...
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Seattle Area Blog Meetup

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:09 AM by aaronbrethorst
Tonight, Wed. January 21 2004 @ 7pm. Leilani Lanes 10201 Greenwood Ave N Seattle . Read More...
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U of Minnesota/IEEE Career Fair

Posted Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:36 PM by aaronbrethorst
This is just a head's up to any students at the University of Minnesota (or other schools in the Twin Cities): the U of MN's IEEE student group is sponsoring a career fair a week from tomorrow (which would make it Monday, January 26) at the McNamara Alumni Read More...
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About Me

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:06 PM by aaronbrethorst
About Me: I work for Microsoft. I'm a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Core team. Specifically, I work on Core IDE functionality. Which means what? Basically, I'm responsible for ensuring cross-suite user interface consistency and accessibility, among Read More...
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