I've been posting some comments about Indigo on my other blog - feel free to subscribe if you're interested in Indigo. Here are some of the Indigo entries I've written: http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/02/indigo-is-re-released-into-wild.html http...

To answer a question from my comments, the subscription feed for my moved blog is: http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

I find that (a) I don’t tend to write very many technical entries on this blog (which offends some readers), and (b) I feel constrained about posting on possibly-controversial topics, like politics or religion. Not that my thoughts are * that *...

Pat Helland just posted some terrible (and terribly personal) news on his blog – my heart goes out to him! http://blogs.msdn.com/PatHelland/archive/2004/10/28/249133.aspx

Reason #193 why I like working for Microsoft: I’m leaving work today, and as usual I take the elevator down to the lowest level of the underground parking (there are four underground levels). I get off the elevator and there, in the elevator entry...

It seems like the week for good customer service on the blogs I read – here we see an example of Home Depot doing right by their customers .

You so often hear about crappy service from credit card and financial services companies; it was a delight to read this very positive report by Chris Sells on BankOne’s actions in response to credit card fraud on one of his accounts: “Apparently...

Mitch Denny proposes a very cool idea for popping up in-place GUI when you need to edit a formatted string or other parameter in source code . He has posted his idea up on the Ladybug site ; I’ve voted for it, and you should too!

Mark Pilgrim explains how there are only two kinds of developer: assholes and morons.

A friend of mine recently posted about the Microsoft presence in Indian schools . He points out the great progress that Microsoft has made at Indian universities, and also points out some key areas for improvement. I hope Microsoft India is reading…

I read here that Rory is coming to work at Microsoft. Outstanding! I have to admit that when I do my daily blog reading, I often skip over Rory’s, perhaps just admiring the titles, but leaving them unread on my to-do list – because I’m...

I was reading a post about Visual Studio refactoring support in the next version , and I noticed that it described the process of refactoring the order of parameters for a function as something like this: 1. click on a function name 2. select refactor...

Despite my skepticism about head-mounted displays, I remain enthusiastic about the possibilities of ‘augmented reality’ – it is just too cool for words! Here you see a research project that lets folks run around a (real not virtual)...

If you think the MSDN Product Feedback Center rating equation isn’t right, go vote for this bug: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=00bf32ec-50e7-4def-8464-7e19cc4812ba

I noticed a post recently that commented on TiVo’s upcoming support for larger hard drives. This reminded me of another idea I had – TiVo should support additional external hard drives. After all, when I see something like La Cie’s new...

This is the story of an inspirational speech that, well – wasn’t. I went to a divisional meeting recently – lots of people, lots of powerpoint. The topics were a bit dry, and the last speaker was clearly trying to drum up some excitement...

I made the following challenge over on Channel 9 – anyone care to take up the gauntlet? “That takes me back - when I started at Microsoft eight years ago, I worked in the Windows build lab. This was back when we were working on SUR, and...

If you’ve ever coded in C, you owe it to yourself to check out the (fully functional) programs at this link: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~rhoads/Obfuscated_C/obfuscate.html Here is one of the programs presented: char*lie; double time, me= !0XFACE...

Apparently a professor (and ham radio enthusiast) from the University of Rhode Island has invented a new kind of radio antenna that performs as well as antennae three to nine times larger. The article mentions walkie-talkies as a possible application...

I notice Sam Gentile references a tool for registering managed objects in the COM+ catalog even if they don’t derive from Serviced Component. Oddly, I have recently read an internal mail thread on a similar customer issue. The upshot of the mail...

I was just doing some ego-surfing on technorati, and I ran across a link to http://bipinv.blogspot.com/ . Looking there, I don’t actually see any links to my blog, but I do notice several of my blog entries have been copied verbatim into that site...

I’m joining the current blog meme… “But worship was not on the docket that night, let me tell you.” The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, page 23 Instructions: Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence...

Wow, this car is incredible. Its price tag is a few orders of magnitude out of my league, but a man can dream, can’t he? http://auto.howstuffworks.com/bugatti.htm · A W-16 engine that can produce 1,001 horsepower · A top speed of 250...

Hank Wallace posted a question recently about the <NotifyTo> element in a WS-Eventing subscription request, and whether it really needed to contain an <Address> element or not. You can read my response in the comments, but while I was looking...

My wife recently needed a new laptop, so we splurged and got her a TabletPC. At first, I have to admit I was somewhat underwhelmed – it was a convertible model, and I noticed that she was always using it in laptop mode, not tablet mode. However...