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Alex Barnett here...a quick one: This will be my last post on blogs.msdn.com as I'm leaving...
Date: 03/27/2007
OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er,...
Date: 09/02/2006
This is what The Register said Sir TBL said about Web 2.0: "You should thank Tim Berners-Lee. Not...
Date: 08/31/2006
I've not met Frank Arrigo in person, but I know about his shirt. In the latest episode of the 'Frank...
Date: 08/30/2006
Congrats to Betsy and the team: the Windows Live QnA service is now in public beta. I've been on the...
Date: 08/29/2006
I love the smell of comment spam in the morning. I did then, I do now.
Date: 08/27/2006
A video on how to make a YouTube video using Windows Movie Maker, on YouTube, made using Windows...
Date: 08/26/2006
Somasega introduces the 'Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps' 1. Follow the Windows...
Date: 08/26/2006
Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for...
Date: 08/26/2006
Mitch Ratcliffe spotted a column published ealier this month on the FT. The article, written...
Date: 08/26/2006
Laura John (who I used to work with while we were both at MSDN / TechNet), has blogged about...
Date: 08/25/2006
From Yellowstone that is. Land of volcanos, bears, tents, and scary sounds at night. I nearly killed...
Date: 08/25/2006
As you probably know by now, Dean Hachamovitch announced this morning that Internet Explorer 7...
Date: 08/24/2006
150 cool Windows XP downloads. via JoshBlog
Date: 08/19/2006
Tim Sneath asks: "What's the most impressive WPF demo you can construct in a single line of XAML?...
Date: 08/18/2006
Korby on CodePlex: "My take, from the trenches, is that CodePlex is Microsoft doing what it has...
Date: 08/18/2006
Meet Erik. Erik Meijer is an Architect in Microsoft's Data Programmability team. As you can see from...
Date: 08/17/2006
....on a little vacation, so comments are on moderation - will be approved when I get back in a...
Date: 08/17/2006
The Made In Express Contest is reaching its conclusion - there are a total of 10 finalists' projects...
Date: 08/17/2006
0% off. Yay!
Date: 08/16/2006
What is not RSS? In case you were wondering.
Date: 08/16/2006
The ADO.NET vNext Community Technology Preview ('CTP') went live today...Hopefully I can convince...
Date: 08/15/2006
Clearly a classic post on the topic of tagging, but I've not seen it before: A cognitive analysis of...
Date: 08/14/2006
I blogged about a tagging tool for Outlook 2003, Taglocity, when it went to beta earlier this year....
Date: 08/14/2006
A few more links for you... 'Hirlpoo West' points out one of the two plugins Tim Heuer has already...
Date: 08/14/2006
This is my first post on my MSDN blog using the new Windows Live Writer released today by J.J....
Date: 08/13/2006
Tubes not found. via Digg.
Date: 08/12/2006
Although Judge Edward Fadeley didn't use the term, his warning is clear: 'Drive-by blogging' is out...
Date: 08/10/2006
Oh goodie! Pac-man released on Xbox Live Arcade today. As much as I love all those mutli-million...
Date: 08/09/2006
Bill's favorite pastime is to play Bridge. Via Todd Bishop, here's a pic of him playing last week. I...
Date: 08/09/2006
Mathew Gifford points out that Steve Gillmor has a new blog. And like Mathew, I'm not pointing to it...
Date: 08/09/2006
1991, August 6: "Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web." Here...
Date: 08/06/2006
From what I've seen over at Joshua's blog, it's no wonder we have parking problems.
Date: 08/06/2006
Yes, you read that right. LINQ to Amazon. "This example introduces Linq to Amazon, which allows...
Date: 08/04/2006
Tim O'Reilly's series of posts on book sales are giving up lots of interesting data and trends from...
Date: 08/03/2006
Classic Diggbait: Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls: "Here...
Date: 08/03/2006
Assaf @ Supr.c.ilio.us has the answers.
Date: 08/03/2006
If you like microformats and / or RSS you'll love it. If you don't know about microformats and / or...
Date: 08/02/2006
A few days ago I grumbled at the poor state of the search engines specializing in syndicated (RSS'd...
Date: 08/02/2006
I've been OOF since the beginning of last week, back in tomorrow. Adam was also OOF last week and...
Date: 08/01/2006
Data Visualization tools are great. Especially when using Oreos.
Date: 07/31/2006
Not this kind of mouse party... but this kind of mouse party... "Dude, tell me that hand isn't for...
Date: 07/31/2006
The real Microsoft news today is not that Microsoft (and Google) want to dominate the web, nor is it...
Date: 07/31/2006
Cesar sayz: "folks on the web are saying that it's a Microsoft teaser campaign for Zune. It's not."
Date: 07/31/2006
For a few months now, Randy Charles Morin has been tracking and grading the performance of search...
Date: 07/30/2006
Remember the Seadragon Software acquisition in February? Well, some of that technology and talent...
Date: 07/29/2006
Just a quick update to let you know that my surgery went very well on Tuesday and am recovering...
Date: 07/27/2006