I didn't believe it until I saw it myself: My friend asked me to bring red and blue plastic cups to Sweden because the U.S. students really miss them. It's true. Here's why. (This needed to be explained to me because this was a part of U.S. college life...

It's Saturday morning, around 10:30 and I'm sitting in Doug Boling's Post Conference session. Doug is running us through building an application using the .NET Compact Framework. We're building a Conference planner application. Because it's a full day...

Was wondering if anyone knows about an add-on or some product which will let me add color to the output of SQL Server 2000 Query Analyzer? The reason I could use it is that I was running a test in QA that printed out a lot of PASS and FAIL statements...

In my comments , Kevin replies to my questions and indicates that he'll try to get more information on the attendee list. Thanks Kevin, your answers are appreciated. Also, I think your comment on Google and their “research” efforts is dead...

Today I took a stab at creating a prioritized feature list for the 2.0 version of the site. If I missed something or you think I have the ranking wrong let me know. Note: It is not a goal of ours to provide a tool upload mechanism. Tool downloads...

All in all i think it was a really good show this year. I met with lots of interesting people doing lots of interesting projects. I also heard ramblings that the show next year might be in San Francisco rather than San Jose. It was awfully crowded, so...

Kevin Schofield writes about the upcoming Social Computing Research Symposium at Microsoft Research, which Scoble has mentioned also . In looking at the list of attendees , I was surprised to not see any attendees from Google, Six Apart, or UserLand....

News coverage here: http://news.com.com/2100-1003_3-5180359.html?tag=nefd_top . For people don't know, Lenovo is the biggest computer OEM in China. Honestly, this is one of the few times I see a China company on main page of news.com.

A short follow-up on my Office HTML post . Rick Schaut, a long-time Mac Word developer (with a really interesting blog about Office history and the MacBU), noted that Word for Windows's filtered HTML feature appeared first on the Mac . Mac Word exposes...

I got into an interesting discussion in the comments on Dan Gillmor’s column about Microsoft’s behavior. Dan concludes that “Microsoft won’t reform itself.” Because I like my job and don’t like sitting in depositions...

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 Training has been posted to MSDN. The training labs in this section step you through the process of creating and working with Microsoft® Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 solutions using Microsoft...

These folks are spamming every one of my posts… I guess I need to break out Raymond’s comment scrubber… but still, can we ban that IP address or something like that? Are other folks being hit as well? ..brad Sender: anon...