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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:22 AM

reason #47375057 to attend GNoTECon

Mike Ward, of Aggreg8 fame has just told us he'd like to sponsor a cocktail reception (read - booze) at GNoTECon . Bring your ID (and a designated driver) <grin> Also, thanks to (the) Guy for blogging about us , and thanks to everyone for all the
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Saturday, November 25, 2006 9:37 AM

anyone know a good GUI school?

So, clearly, some of us need to go to GUI school :) The GNoTE website was something we slapped together real quick. And we didn't do a good job of it. The site was meant to be über-simple, and we traded aesthetics for simplicity. Lesson learned. Bad developer
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Friday, November 24, 2006 12:19 PM

R.I.P, my SDA

I pronounced it - at 4pm on 11/22/2006, my SDA died of severe complications. The complications started at around noon on Wednesday, when my friend Sharran , was driving up to visit me. He called, and I almost answered but I didn't. Then I called him right
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Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:30 AM

playing in my head...

Joshua Radin - Closer "ai" Technorati tags: joshua+radin
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:15 PM

And, in the news today...

I open up start.com and I see two Purdue -related articles in my feeds. Completely unrelated however : Here're the two articles : Purdue Streams a Movie At 7.5Gb/sec Two Purdue players arrested, won't play at Hawaii Go Boilers! "ai" Technorati tags: purdue
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:20 PM

Sleepless in Ann Arbor? In Columbus?

Early this year, the USC Texas game was touted as the biggestest game ever. It made sense - they were the two best teams at the time. That was the National Championship Game. The National Championship. This time round, the biggestest game of the year
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 8:19 PM

my new favorite show - FNL

" Friday Night Lights ". Love the show. The drama's gripping. The cinematography is awesome. The story is way too predictable in a lot of ways, like the starting QB, who gets knocked out of the game and gets hospitalized in the first episode, and his
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:57 AM

Launching GNoTE

It's very uncommon for me to get through a day without being asked what my official title ('Developer Evangelist') actually means. I typically ask people what they think the title means in return, and I get a lot of different answers. And typically in
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Monday, November 13, 2006 11:17 AM

my LINQ slides

Sorry for the delay in getting these out... Here are the slides I've been using for my LINQ talks . If you want a recap of what I'd covered, you can watch a recording of the webcast I'd done. Special thanks to Scott Guthrie and Kashif Alam - I'd borrowed
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Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:41 PM

my death space?

Considering all the talk of death that's been happening around me lately, I found it eerily coincidental when my friend pointed me to mydeathspace.com . What's scary is howmany "articles" (obituaries) on the site cite the cause of death as an automobile
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:13 AM

my favoritest websites

There're a few websites that I use everyday that I can't live without. Here's what they are, and why... flickr I take tons of pictures using my smartphone . And without having to do any extra work on my phone, I get to upload my pictures using ShoZu to
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Monday, November 06, 2006 1:57 PM

kinda sorta crazy, she says...

So, I got an email this past weekend that looked like this : Dear Ai, Sorry I rushed out on you the other day. ... I think I'm getting hitched and apart from being overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted, I'm also very happy. ... Love you, [name deleted]
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