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Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Bombay underwater
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over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
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‘Nuff said (or seen). See more pictures here . AI
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
All kindsa betas...
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over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
1
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I just realized how often I’ve used the word ‘beta’ in the last 7 months or so. I guess y’all probably know that betas of Windows Vista and IE7 are now available for download (to MSDN subscribers). Here are some ‘hot’ betas as of today : Windows...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Who will explode this season?
Posted
over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
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And, no, not literally… Football season is upon us. The NFL Pre-season is a month or so away, and the NCAA football season about 6–8 weeks away. I still feel USC ’s (lack-of-)strength-of-schedule propelled/elevated them to their proclaimed status last...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
ASP.NET 2.0 coming to a location near you...
Posted
over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
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Hello children, I’ll be back presenting at MSDN events this quarter starting August 2nd. Our focus is going to be entirely ASP.NET 2.0 . Here’s what my current schedule looks like (all times are local to the location) : Location Date...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
the little things in life...
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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Two of my favorite three sitcoms are “ Spin City ”, and “ Scrubs ”. Little did I know that both these shows were created by the same guy, Bill Lawrence , who by the way, is now my hero. Also, remember ‘Kate’ from the Drew Carey Show ? Kate is Christa...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
innovation and all that jazz...
Posted
over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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A few days back Rory Blyth blogged about innovation ( here , here and here ). While I respect everyone’s opinions on various topics, I’d like to think that I am always the one that’s right about them <wink>. So here’s my take on it… “Innovation...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Congratulations, CharlieG!
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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I’ve been spending the past few days back at the Cisco campus. I was with the Cisco account team here at Microsoft presenting to the Cisco tech community on a variety of IT Pro and Developer related topics. This morning, I heard of Cisco’s upper engineering...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
NUnit to VS2K5 Team Test Converter Available
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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A lot of folks have been wondering about how they can go about converting NUnit tests to VS2K5 Team Test. An alpha version of a 'converter tool' is now available. It supports both C# and VB.NET based tests. Give it a whirl, and I'd love to hear your feedback...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
We're hiring!
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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Are you passionate and pumped to engage the developer community? We’re now hiring dynamic Developer Evangelists in the US West Region , specifically in Northern California (Silicon Valley, Greater San Francisco Bay Area). If you need more information...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
the clock stops ticking
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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A day before the big birthday, my clock stops ticking… No, literally, check it out : At 4.47pm this afternoon : At 4.48pm this afternoon : At 4.49pm this afternoon : You get the idea… Propitious sign you say?
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
I want one! (I in italics)
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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A few weeks ago, my boss Paul blogged about how he considers buying the elise . I don’t blame him considering he has a lowly G35 coupe at the moment <wink> But seriously, the elise is to die for. I had the privilege of test-driving it this...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Free online books
Posted
over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
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Introducing VB 2005 for Developers Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Monad Beta-1 Now Available
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over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
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If you're as crazy about Monad as I am , well, here's your chance to sign up as a Beta tester and give it a whirl. Set up a passport account. If you already have a passport account, sign in using your account in step 2, and then skip to step 6....
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
the best $10.50 I've spent all year
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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Attention all prequels, calling all prequels, please step aside… Batman has begun. Today (well, actually starting last night), I watched “ Batman Begins ”. Growing up, of all the superheroes, Batman was my favorite one. His dark...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
MSDN Event in Baton Rouge - 6/14
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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Hello Baton Rouge homies, #1 - The little “add” security token to the RequestSoapContext was bugging the freakin’ life out of me. And something about trying to debug a problem in front of a live audience – it just don’t...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
single-lessness, unique-lessness - Monad-lessness *sigh*
Posted
over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
3
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I’m a CLI-kinda guy. And by CLI, I don’t mean the Common Language Interface, I mean the Command Line Interface. For years and years, I worked in a non-GUI environment (at Cisco), and I fell in love with it. It made me feel like a man –...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
us fair-weather children
Posted
over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
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On Wednesday, 6/8, I flew to Miami, Florida. We landed at around 10.30pm. I had no luggage. So I dashed out and looked to exit the terminal. The automatic doors opened and I stepped out. I stepped out to about 90F and 100% humidity. I’d forgotten that...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Whidbey and Yukon - 154 days (approximately) to go...
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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Let the countdown begin… 154 days or 13,305,600 seconds or 221,760 minutes or 3,696 hours or 22 weeks left : http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/TechEd2005Day2PR.mspx
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
get drunk, and blog…
Posted
over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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We’re about 25 days away from the official midpoint of the year (and coincidentally my birthday as well). And I wanted to know how you peeps out there were doing with your new year’s resolutions. How committed are you to those resolutions you made? ...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Eternal post of a blogless mind
Posted
over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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It was a typical Saturday evening in the city… A few of my friends and I were at the Fillmore , bar-hopping. I hadn’t bar-hopped in over 3 years, and I was tremendously excited to bar-hop. Bar-hopping was extremely common back in the good old Purdue days...
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HP Announces New National Identity System Solution Built on Microsoft .NET Platform
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050527/275136.html?.v=1
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Where are the #$#@!%@# VS2K5 DVDs you promised us?
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over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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Is the question posed in the subject line running through your mind? Do you wake up everyday, go to work, come back, check your mail slot to see if the VS2K5 DVDs we promised you at the MSDN Event you attended is in the mail? If you answered ‘yes’...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
This is just hilarious - Netscape 8.0 browser woes
Posted
over 8 years ago
by
truecalling91
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Timeline (and I quote)… May 19 : Netscape parades security features Netscape on Thursday released the final version of Netscape 8, a browser that includes features to protect Web surfers against online scams. (more here …) May 20 : Netscape fixes...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
Yukon-CLR's very own blog
Posted
over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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I was thinking to myself a few days ago (yeah, I sit back and think to myself a LOT), "man, wouldn't it be nice if there was a blog around all the stuff happening around the integration of the CLR in Yukon ?". Clearly the Riddler's at work, my brainwaves...
Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles
google me this, google me that...
Posted
over 8 years ago
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truecalling91
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Ok, I admit, Google is my starting home page. Its wonderful, easy, simple, fun, and yes, it has captivated me. I’m a google-r. Its mind-boggling how a webpage so freakingly trivial-looking feeds on top off all this complex search infrastructure...
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