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Moving on.

Alex Barnett here...a quick one: This will be my last post on blogs.msdn.com as I'm leaving Microsoft at the end of March 2007. If you're still subscribed to my RSS feed on blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn please note this blog won't be updated again from March Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:12 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

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

Sir Tim: Calm Down 2.0

This is what The Register said Sir TBL said about Web 2.0: "You should thank Tim Berners-Lee. Not just for giving us the web, but for articulating what's gone wrong in the lexicon and thinking of Silicon Valley. Hopefully, his standing in the web community Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:20 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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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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I still love the smell of comment spam in the morning.

I love the smell of comment spam in the morning. I did then , I do now. Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:36 AM by alexbarn | 7 Comments

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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oh yeah, I'm back...

From Yellowstone that is. Land of volcanos, bears, tents, and scary sounds at night. I nearly killed a coyote. Don't mess with me. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 12:17 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

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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