Star Wars day is coming... more on this next week, also WinHEC is running in Seattle next week http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx - hopefully see you there... I'm signed up to CodeProject who recently passed the 1 Million signed up users...

My wife has an art studio downtown and she wanted some shelves. She wanted them to appear just to hang off the wall, to be very, very long, and to support about 40 pounds per lineal foot. Of course, the first thing I had to do was to buy a new table saw...

These are some great articles, written by Chris Pratley, a group program manager at Microsoft, ( Blog , Bio ) about the history of MS Word. These articles are too good for me to pass up. Very interesting history and perspective. Let’s...

I picked my wife up from the hospital yesterday after some work on some ruptured disks in her neck. Evidently, they gave her a sedative. Nearly her first words to me were, “Goooood drugs.” It reminded me of this cartoon I saw on bbspot.

Commerce Server 2002 introduced a feature which allowed content from one or more base catalogs to be aggregated into a virtual catalog using inclusion and exclusion rules. The values for the properties of the products and categories came from the base...

Calling a pure virtual function from the base class....

I don't know what's come over me....

MSN Careers has a quick article on job burnout, below are the symptoms: 1. chronic fatigue - exhaustion, tiredness, a sense of being physically run down 2. anger at those making demands 3. self-criticism for putting up with the demands 4. cynicism...

I just arrived in Berlin. The Developer Days 2004 will start tomorrow. I will hold the XPSP2 talk there and some of my demos are leveraging Virtual PC. It is my first time to demo on VPC images. I never had the hardware to run it smoothly. But with my...

Imagine a blog entry about the time when the Windows Installer XML toolset bug count seemed manageable and Rob was going to have to start writing documentation....

Scoble and Dudley are having a debate about fonts and I can't help but think the little screenshot isn't enough to go on. For one, it's clear that Japanese fonts are not rendered using ClearType, so that's a topic for a different day. Right now I want...

I was just on the first floor of my building and I noticed that they’ve put up laminated posters with the names and pictures of all the multimedia and MCE MVP’s on the wall – pretty cool actually. I don’t have a camera on me; otherwise I’d post a picture...