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Happy New Year and update

First of all, happy new year to everyone! I've been on vacation for the last couple weeks and have another week of vacation left. :-) I just came back from India where our families hosted a wedding reception for friends and family in India. It was amazing...
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My Personal Space and Blog

These days, most of our information and announcements come in the form of our SharePoint Team Blog @ http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint . I think a team blog is a great way to communicate information about a specific technology and provides many different
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Just got engaged…

I've been a little quiet in the blogosphere over the last few months, and there's good reason for that. Last Friday, September 7 th , I proposed to my girlfriend and she said yes. J It's definitely the beginning of a new chapter in my life… and needless
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I've been tagged - 5 things you may not know about me

Stefan Gossner, a friend and colleague of mine, "tagged" me as did Spence Harbar , friend and MVP. Basically, I have to say 5 things that people may not necessarily know about me. Since this isn't work related and I'm on vacation, I thought I'd go ahead
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The New Year

I spent new year's eve and christmas with family and friends this year on the east coast. I had the opportunity to meet some great new people and really relax. The weather here was also very moderate - 50 degrees during the day. I also enjoyed my new
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Rishad Wadia

One of my really good friends, Rishad Wadia, runs a small company that uses Microsoft technology. The company has about 15 people and they use Small Business Server for email and scheduling . I recently introduced him to the world of SharePoint technology
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http://www.live.com

If you haven't been to http://www.live.com , created your own personal dashboard and used the search - you must check it out. It's great!
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Article for GenerationIndia.com: The American Dream: Is It Over?

I wrote an article for an online magazine, GenerationIndia, 15-18 months or so ago. You can find it in the past issues section of the website today. Several folks have asked me to post it elsewhere since the website requires you to register. Well, here
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personal vocabulary

I spent last evening with a couple friends of mine: Rishad Wadia and Uma Lakhani. We had dinner at an Indian restaurant in downtown Seattle. We were in our own little world when we realized there were people in the restaurant who didn't quite understand
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Mini-Microsoft

I read the business week article and, while I found it interesting as a whole, I found the whole Mini-Microsoft bit most entertaining. I have nothing against stating opinions... in fact, I think it's healthy and should be promoted. Everyone has a right
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10 great things about the next version of SharePoint Products and Technologies and CMS

There's a lot of great buzz in the community as well as Microsoft around the next version of Windows SharePoint Services and Office "12" servers. The amount of investment that's going into these technologies, if it wasn't obvious at PDC, is tremendous.
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texas holdem advice for beginners

I had an interesting conversation with a poker beginner recently. So I thought I'd blog about it. It's rather interesting to watch new poker players... they tend to lay down "good cards" early or, more often, they tend to hold on to bad cards until the
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Best CMS/SharePoint Blog

In my opinion, the best blog out there for new information on CMS and SharePoint Products and Technologies is Mark Harrison's blog @ http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/default.aspx . Mark blogs on a near-daily basis and posts high-quality information. If
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Mike Drip's entertaining article on "SharePoint"

This blog entry has been rewritten to focus on the content of the article. I came across Mike Drip's article recently that is published on informat.com. I don't feel the content of the article provides constructive feedback or solutions to SharePoint
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U2

I went to a U2 concert last night. It was fantastic. Mind blowing. After all these years, U2 still attracts people of all different ages and backgrounds. It's even more admirable how Bono uses his popularity and songs to try and change the world; to talk
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