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Olympic Cold
15 August 08 11:26 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   

A few of my coworkers and I were discussing the Olympic controversy regarding the ages of the female gymnasts. After much thoughtful discussion, we came up with several possible rational explanations for the discrepancies. Time travel - perhaps the gymnasts Read More...

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Measuring up
26 July 08 05:56 PM | Adam Singer | 5 Comments   

I just had a somewhat random thought. Throughout the history of computing, we've come up with one syllable abbreviations for collections of bits. First there were "bytes", then "k", followed by "megs" and now "gigs". How will we shorten "terabytes" to Read More...

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Hyper-V: They've gone plaid!
25 July 08 10:02 AM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   

The title is a reference to "Spaceballs", of course. Recently, I've been doing all of my development on a machine that doesn't exist. This both amuses me greatly and increases my productivity. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm using a Hyper-V Read More...

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More machine than man now
02 August 07 02:20 PM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   

The other day, someone not in the computer related fields asked me an interesting question. He wanted to know what I think the difference is between the human brain and a computer. Now, it's been a long time since I took biology, but I believe I remember Read More...

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On msiproperty.ini
08 June 07 05:00 PM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   

Recently, in part because of such interesting capabilities as Sudhir mentions in his post on Analysis Services Flexibility , we had an e-mail discussion about the msiproperty.ini file. As such discussions are wont to do, this one became somewhat humorous. Read More...

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No 'I' in 'Team'
28 March 07 12:45 PM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   

I've had this brewing in my head for awhile now and wanted to share it with you, my fellow netizens. This stems in part from a philosophy course I took back during my undergraduate days called "Freedom and Responsibility". The basic question in the course Read More...

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Now We Are Five
12 January 07 05:03 PM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   

Having been tagged at least twice , I felt I should take the time to write a little something about myself. I'm engaged to be married to the most beautiful, caring woman in the world this coming October. Her coworkers are jealous of the fact that I bake Read More...

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Truth in advertizing
05 January 07 02:25 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   

I'm an avid fan of Battlestar Galactica, as is only appropriate for a former Trekkie who only saw only the first two Matrix movies and was not impressed by the second. Therefore, when I saw the advertisement Visual Studio 2005 had on the SciFi web site Read More...

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Precognization
02 January 07 05:35 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   

Around this time of year, you see plenty of folks trying to make predictions about what's going to happen over the next year. Not one to be left out, I have a few surefire predictions about what we can expect to happen: Customers will purchase Windows Read More...

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Must be Monday
06 November 06 08:56 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   

Steps to have an interesting Monday morning: Arrive at work to find that your coworker 's door has been locked from the inside Realize that nobody in the office has keys Push up the ceiling tiles in an attempt to drop a book over the door through the Read More...

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That was easy
27 September 06 01:36 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   

Remember those Staples commercials with the "easy button"? Well, it seems like they're actually selling them now! I found out when my girlfriend bought me one yesterday. Like Chris said, they're kind of like this year's version of the red stapler from Read More...

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It's always darkest...
07 November 05 12:52 PM | Adam Singer | 7 Comments   

...just before it goes pitch black. These past three weeks, the Visual Studio Team Foundation testers have been darker than dark (we called it "dark dark"). We got tons of new automation written, analyzed numerous automated runs, and even managed to find Read More...

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Stream of conscience
27 January 05 03:14 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   

A friend out in Redmond recently passed along this link . Stan Zdonik was my advisor up at Brown , and I was fortunate enough to help out on the StreamBase project when it was called Aurora . Apparently, Forbes.com found out about StreamBase and wanted Read More...

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