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Sunday, July 30, 2006 12:02 AM

My 'gala' event

From one event to the next... This evening I got to attend an HRC gala here in San Francisco. It was my first time at an HRC gala, and I was thrilled to be there. We (Microsoft) helped sponsor, and Sanjay Katyal, our NorCal diversity champion did a phenomenal
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:12 PM

OSCON Day 1 - navigating through your schedule

How many times have you attended a multi-day conference (like a TechEd, or a PDC) where you initially sign up for a set of sessions for the day, but then you walk through the hallways heading to the next session and you run in to your colleagues, one
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:46 PM

OSCON Day 1 - OSCamp

OSCON's too much fun. Its been awesome to see really passionate people and talk about their open source projects or products. I'm currently sitting in on Lam 's session on RubyCLR . The day started off with O'Reilly kicking off the keynote. We had some
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:04 PM

OSCON - Day 0

I caught an earlyyyyy morning flight from San Francisco in to Portland today, to attend some OSCON tutorials. I was absolutely shocked when I ran in to one of my favorite professors from Purdue , Prof Avi Kak in one of the hallways of the Convention Center
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:47 AM

Dear Elizabeth

I'm not a big social stigmas kinda guy. I'm immensely tolerant, and can also be occasionally tolerable. But, every now and then, things happen, like Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston deciding to do a movie together , or people just, being themselves when
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Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:20 PM

And I can't find the air ... imagining you care

Barely Breathing by Duncan Sheik I love this song... "ai" [update : added a youtube link]
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Friday, July 21, 2006 3:10 PM

See ya at OSCON

I'm off to attend OSCON next week in lovely Portland. I'm a fan of open-source products and projects, so I'm absolutely thrilled to be going there. It looks like some of the folks from Port25 are gonna be there as well. Drop me a note and let me know
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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:40 AM

myspace + youtube = mytube? or youspace?

I spend atleast 20 minutes a day on average (when I'm not actively working on, umm, Microsoft stuff) on myspace . I see so many profiles on there with links to youtube clips embedded or linked. And, myspace does a terrific job of hosting music content.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:13 PM

Fine, I shall cave to thee for now, OpenDNS

When Chris or Scott post about something in a seriously positive note or, umm not so much, the post sends reverberating vibes through 'teh' internet ( Chris's post , Scott's post ). Having worked as a developer at a networking company in the past, I was
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Sunday, July 16, 2006 12:29 AM

my what space?

http://www.mywhatspace.com/ Currently playing in my head : 'Promiscuous' by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland "ai"
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Friday, July 14, 2006 9:45 AM

Ruby and Rails in Visual Studio 2005

Dreams do come true - have you seen Sapphire in Steel ? This is an awesome way to leverage the Visual Studio IDE while enjoying the comfort of coding in Ruby and using the Rails framework. Here's a beautiful how-to - http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-Development-In-Steel
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:36 PM

shout out to Bombay

By now many of you have heard about the bombings that happened in Bombay . I've been reluctant to blog about this for a few reasons... First, I host my blog on blogs.msdn.com, which is a Microsoft-run blog server for its employees. While I can be opinionated,
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:46 PM

Friendster, Friendster, make me a friend

Couldn't resist linking to this on blaugh - Friend or Foe . "ai"
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:38 PM

Herrington's PHP Hacks gets awesome reviews on /.

I've been out of commission for a bit thanks to the flu. I was catching up on my subscribed feeds this afternoon when I saw this book review on slashdot. Congrats, Jack ! "ai"
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Friday, July 07, 2006 10:03 AM

Why I love teh Tim and my West Region v-team

A week or so ago, I (half-)jokingly told the Timster how I'd like the SLK 350 for my birthday. And the stellar super nice-ie that he is, Tim and my lovely West Region v-team got it for me for my birthday. Well, not exactly 'it', but a 1:18 scaled model.
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006 1:51 AM

To Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, I'd like my $$ back, please

Dear Mr. Vaughn and Ms. Aniston , I would like the $9.75 that I paid to watch the movie, " The Breakup ", back, please. I haven't watched a more ridiculously riduculous movie in a riduculously long time. I went to the 9.45pm showing of the movie, with
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Monday, July 03, 2006 11:19 PM

Craigslisters (all bazillion of you), beware!

"San Jose police are looking for a robber who is targeting people he has met on Craigslist while posing as a seller or buyer." ... "In cases where he has purported to buy something, the suspect has robbed the victim of the items -- small electronic devices
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Monday, July 03, 2006 2:03 PM

NewsMap - Signal vs Noise alright

I heard about NewsMap through 37 signals ( original post ). Sick. ai tags : 37signals , newsmap
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Saturday, July 01, 2006 12:21 PM

Lose or find something at BarCampSF?

If you misplaced or recovered something at BarCamp last weekend, check the "Lost & Found" section of the site out, and drop me a note . ai
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Saturday, July 01, 2006 12:45 AM

Wow - goodbye coach Walker

I was shocked to read the news today that Coach Randy Walker from Northwestern U had passed away . I can confidently say that I've seen this man (re)build the Northwestern Football program. He was a great leader with great principles. ai
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