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Moving my blog

OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog . Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:38 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

I've not met Frank, but I know about his shirt.

I've not met Frank Arrigo in person, but I know about his shirt. In the latest episode of the 'Frank and His Shirt' reality show series, the hunt is on for an apparent posuer . The background to this rather potracted saga is a story unto itself, even Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:18 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Windows Live QnA service - public beta

Congrats to Betsy and the team : the Windows Live QnA service is now in public beta. I've been on the private beta for a little while and turned to it for help for a couple of things when I got stuck. One example was asking for good seafood restaurants Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:43 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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YouTube video - How to - using Windows Movie Maker

A video on how to make a YouTube video using Windows Movie Maker, on YouTube , made using Windows Movie Maker ... Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 2:31 PM by alexbarn | 12 Comments
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Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps

Somasega introduces the ' Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps ' 1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines 2. Enrich the user experience 3. Enable users to visualize, organize, and search 4. Run securely 5. Design for reliability and manageability Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:58 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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RSS feeds, OPMLs and Grazr

Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for your feedreader. Some good feeds worth checking out there, including a bunch of Windows Live individual employee and team blogs. Kevin, one way of displaying Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:37 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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Private equity buyouts and crack

Mitch Ratcliffe spotted a column published ealier this month on the FT. The article, written columinst John Plender , proposes that a leveraged buyout of Microsoft by private equity bankers would be a good thing. As Mitch points out, this scenario would Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:52 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Windows Live WiFi - beta testers wanted!

Laura John (who I used to work with while we were both at MSDN / TechNet), has blogged about something I've not heard of before...Windows Live WiFi: "We provide dial-up access to a ton of users across the United States but we've also been working on a Read More...
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 10:10 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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IE7 - RCs, Changes and CSS

As you probably know by now, Dean Hachamovitch announced this morning that Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is ready for download . So what is the difference between a 'Release Candidate' (RC) and a 'Beta'? Here's the short answer from Dean's Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:04 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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150 cool Windows XP downloads

150 cool Windows XP downloads . via JoshBlog Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 8:00 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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1 line in XAML

Tim Sneath asks : "What's the most impressive WPF demo you can construct in a single line of XAML? Can you improve on these?" Read More...
Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 10:00 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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On CodePlex, Open Source and Microsoft

Korby on CodePlex : "My take, from the trenches, is that CodePlex is Microsoft doing what it has always done: quietly supporting the needs and expressed wishes of our most important customers: developers developers developers developers, the fine folks Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:55 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Meet Erik Meijer on Channel 9 (and why he keeps a penguin in a box)

Meet Erik. Erik Meijer is an Architect in Microsoft's Data Programmability team. As you can see from these pics he let me shoot in his office, Erik keeps a penguin... I first knew of Erik when he was starring as the 'Head in the Box' on VBTV . (I wish Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:41 AM by alexbarn | 7 Comments
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Instant IM Translation and other winners

The Made In Express Contest is reaching its conclusion - there are a total of 10 finalists' projects and now it is time to pick the winners...Who will win? Well, that's really up to you . My personal favorite is the Instant IM Translation . I confess Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:55 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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ADO.NET vNext - a load of links....

The ADO.NET vNext Community Technology Preview ('CTP') went live today...Hopefully I can convince Tommy Williams to write up his 'from the trenches' post once he's recovered ;-) Anyways, on to the LINQs links: Today Announcing: The ADO.NET vNext August Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:44 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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