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Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:08 PM

ok, seriously...

I've moved, like, 80 times since we broke up. And I'm still carrying gifts I got from her around with me. It wasn't too long ago that I was conscientious ... Now, I'm just annoyed. I'm looking at this brilliant painting that she made me (she is very talented).
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Monday, September 24, 2007 2:11 PM

Live from the Halo3 pre-launch party command center

I'm hanging here with Jason , JD , Erin and Jas scampering prepping for the big one this evening - the Halo3 pre-launch party . More to come later... " ai " Technorati Tags: halo3svc , halo3 pre-launch party
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Monday, September 17, 2007 2:00 PM

I'm no Mark Cuban, but...

I'm no Mark Cuban , he surely receives more emails than I do. But I just realized that the number of emails I need to do something about has now hit the magic number - I've started panicking. For those of you who don't know, that is the magic number -
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 4:27 PM

Live from SilverlightDevCampSF - afternoon 2

4 RedBulls and 3 Pizza Orgasmica slices later... We're a few sessions in. My favorite one so far has been the " Silverlight vs Flash (vs JavaFX )" session that Abdel (from Chico State) and Randy Fong ran ( session info ). Ryan Stewart and John Dowdell
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 10:46 AM

Live from SilverlightDevCampSF - day 2

We're up and running this morning with day 2 of SilverlightDevCampSF . Brian Ellis from Vertigo is kicking off the first session. Kurt did a slight shuffling of the sessions, so the sessions page may be out of date. Should be a promising day. I also want
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:02 AM

SilverlightDevCampSF - Day 1

We kicked off SilverlightDevCampSF this evening. I have one word - wow! Maybe its because I'm used to always standing in front of an audience and talking to them. Maybe its because I've never gotten so many questions about a Microsoft technology ( Silverlight
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:30 PM

Is TechCrunch turning Valleywag-ish?

Is it just me or have articles on TechCrunch started to look like things you'd see on Valleywag ? (reverse-chronologically) Looking at articles published since 8/20/2007 : Breast Isn’t Best On Facebook Something Going On At Twitter? Googlers Get Kinky
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Monday, September 10, 2007 8:46 PM

nfl : the worst possible news...

From "Surgeon: Everett has life-threatening spinal-cord injury " : Kevin Everett sustained a "catastrophic" and life-threatening spinal-cord injury while trying to make a tackle during the Buffalo Bills ' season opener and is unlikely to walk again, the
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:07 PM

bourne vs bond vs hunt vs batman

A few weeks back, I'd read this news article where Matt Damon talks about Bond . There is no doubt in my mind that Bourne is the deadliest and most lethal of all the spies. Ever. I've read the books by Ludlum (in fact, they're the only books I've read,
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Friday, September 07, 2007 12:07 PM

my high road

Its funny how everyone wants to be the master of their own domain, no matter how little or how big. And there's always people in the chain ready to tell you how you are not (the master of your domain). I've spent endless cycles all week trying to do one
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:52 AM

Silverlight (and related) events

Date Event Name Location Registration Link 9/14, 9/15 SilverlightDevCampSF Microsoft, San Francisco, CA Link , Upcoming , Facebook 9/18 MSDN Event Oakland, CA Link , Upcoming 9/22, 9/23 Central Coast Code Camp San Luis Obispo, CA Link 9/25 MSDN Event
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:04 PM

Silverlight 1.0 has launched; Moonlight the answer on Linux

Silverlight 1.0 has hit the web. The big news, IMO, is our support for Linux - we will work with Novell to support the Moonlight project - the answer for Silverlight on Linux. Here are some links that I think you'll find useful : Read more about the launch
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Monday, September 03, 2007 2:53 PM

(my) why you want to be "Breathing Under Water"

I logged on to my Myspace page after a few eons, and noticed a message from someone I'd befriended a while back : I just bought the new album, Breathing Under Water , on iTunes and got done listening to it. Holy wow! I first got a taste of the album when
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Saturday, September 01, 2007 8:00 PM

my colossal trek

Yesterday was a great day to go for a run. I don't run , but it seemed so right yesterday. There was a lot on my mind (most of which will make it to the blog soon). So I took off on foot, and just ran. And ran. And ran. Here's the route that I ended up
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