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April 2006 - Posts

Boilermakers, Trojans and Saints

I just *love* it when I’m right. Last year, I’d semi-predicted that Leinart’s decision to stay back at SC would be one of the worst, ever . I’m sitting at home watching the draft this morning, and as every round goes by, they show Leinart ’s sad, puppy,
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the conscientious evangelist

You know how sometimes, in life, everything suddenly starts to revolve around something you may have never really spent time thinking about? For example – your best friend buys a Porsche 911 (I hate that jackass, btw). And then suddenly, everywhere, you
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Destiny 2.0

Ahhh, the world is a better place today. Everyday I wake up just hoping and praying, that Kobe Bryant would change his jersey number . All world hunger, will now be solved. And the fact that Tom Cruise spent HOURS greeting a gabagillion of his “fans”
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darn those andes!

Have you seen a decently-figured developer? Do you know why? Its coz we eat. A lot. And when we realize we’re getting fatter, we put candy out for everyone else, so they can catch up. I was working out of the Mountain View office today, and I had occupied
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Free MSDN events in your area!

Hello all, We ( the MSDN events team ), are hitting the road again for the next few weeks talking about fun development stuff. The sessions at our events include : 1. Make it Simple – Language Enhancements in the .NET Framework 2.0 2. Make it Powerful
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WWYD - laptop dilemmas

I've been at the MTS here in Redmond for the most part of this week, and have been hanging out with geeks, a majority of who have laptops running MacOS or Linux. I get swayed very easily by shiny, neat looking thingies, and I must say, the Mac is one
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One upping Tim

Tim 's been blogging like crazy of late. I think he's posted like all of 387 times, in the last few hours. And I'm inclined to one up him, so that, you know, ummm, everyone realizes that I don't do any real work :| There isn't any real substance to this
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Heard of Meebo?

I was chatting with Jason McKerr (from the OSL ) today at the MTS, and he mentioned Meebo to me. Meebo's awesome! Do youbo? I can't think of anything witty to say :| "Ai" tags: mts06 , meebo [PS: Corrected the link to meebo.com] [PPS: Added the meebo
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Sleepy in Seattle?

I'm visiting the mother-ship in Redmond this week. We're hosting this summit called the MTS or Microsoft Technology Summit. I'm super stoked, because I'm sitting behind Tantek from Technorati , I look across the room and I see Brian Behlendorf and Jack
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Microsoft to extend SQL Server Mobile to all versions of Windows

Microsoft Corp. ( we ) said it ( we ) will extend the mobile version of its flagship SQL Server database to run on all versions of Windows. Read more... "Ai"
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I'm stressed

stress = a mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health, usually characterized by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, muscular tension,
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artificial ignorance saves lives

From: K To: Ai Sent : April 1, 2006 "... and must admit, your blog also buoyed my spirits slightly ...so, alls well now :)" My job here is done. "Ai" PS: This is no April Fool's jokes. PPS: Unless, the sender herself was April-Foolsing me... hmm...
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I *dislike* balloons

Yep, totally 'dislike' balloons. "Ai"
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The end of the blog-road

To all 9 of my dearest blog readers, I've decided that I'm going to stop blogging. Its a pointless, useless thing to do. I waste my time blogging, and when I'm not blogging, I'm thinking of blogging. Its an addiction, and its been suggested that I go
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