I guess I'm monopolizing the “Ledgard” search on google nowadays. Recently I received this mail from Justin Ledgard (no relation that I know of)... Hey, i just put my name into a search engine to see what would come up with and i got this...

Inspired by this post and recalling a conversation I had a couple weeks ago with Korby I began to notice how my own news/blog reading changed for the better once I started doing it efficiently. The problem discussed was about how certain individuals are...

Over @ the Powertoys blog I posted an article with tips for using Macros inside Visual Studio . I really just wanted it to be a simple list of instructions that walked people through how they could use the macro code posted to the blog. I ended up walking...

I recently asked Chris to weigh in on the topic of NNTP, web forums, RSS, listserves, etc. In short; he wants them all wrapped up into a neat little package. But here are some choice quotes from hist post: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/#PostReplyAlphabetSoup...

I haven't made a post that fit into my Xbox category for a while, but if this is true I'm going to be one happy customer who can now throw out the cheap switch I had rigged up. http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/5724/Progressive-Scan-Dashboard-Available...

So I just grabbed Visual Blogger from Robert Mclaws. Good stuff that I'm confident it will only get cooler. For some reason I dislike having to go through the web UI to make my posts, so this type of tool is right up my alley. Here are some suggestions...

Scoble has decided to stop his “ illegal quoteblog ”. Too bad. Robert's strength really has been his ability to connect people. In his own blog, he adds commentary to interesting topics started by people I would have never found on my own...

What great timing. Just after we started the PowerToys Blog Roy announced he was organizing a Add-in/Macro coding contest ! You may have noticed the added decoraction on the side of my blog if you read it in Web form. I love it when stars align. I...

Almost a year ago we launched a static Powertoys page on gotdotnet. Today that page is no longer static! We're now feeding http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide with live content from the new Powertoys weblog . Overtime this site will become a categorized...

So I've been posting ideas about how we could best merge NNTP usefulness and feature rich web solutions @ Microsoft. The 3rd plan I outlined involves cutting ties with NNTP and creating a better offline client that also supports the added features of...

So this post has some good information on a product called Ipod Agent. It essentially lets you have rss feeds displayed on your Ipod. It also lets you sync your outlook information as well. I've tried this stuff out, but IMO the Ipod display was really...

I’m currently a Program Manager working to increase Developer Division customer satisfaction through our community participation efforts. I am also helping to shape the vision for community features to be built into Visual Studio. I took this job...

Where was http://pinvoke.net when I was writing bunches of our test automation platform that is essentially a lot of pinvoke calls? This could be a cool resource. Enjoy!

Check out the biographies page that has been set up here . Members of the “Core” Visual Studio team were asked to submit their biographies to this site. You can check out what I wrote here . I think it’s cool that they have also decided...

Daniel left some great comments in response to my brainstorming that I wanted to call out and respond to. I think one of the problems with my post is that I labeled things as “transition“ plans. Yes. I do believe there will be a transition...

Being out sick most of the week and the prescription strength cold medication I’ve been put on had me in the mood to go through my referral logs again in search more strange googlings ! Writing Real Well Sir, you clicked on the wrong link...

As promised… My first thoughts on some solutions to the problems I mentioned yesterday . I chatted today with one of the guys behind some of the central Microsoft community efforts such as the MS public newsgroup site. We talked about how...

During the MVP summit I made it my mission to seek out as much feedback from anyone who would talk to me about newsgroups, web forums, and the general scenarios around the people who answer a lot of questions and the people who need to find or ask for...

Steve has some great impresions here . And I love the attitude of the post title! Some highlights follow... “ I used to be one of those people who said code behind was joke, created extra files and was a PITA to migrate from one machine to another...

Mitch read my post and thinks so. I'm actually thinking that this might confuse users since there are legitimate reasons for sound from the window. The app just has to know when the user asked for sound and when the user didn't. It's just like the pop...

I received a bunch of responses to this post about all the new ads. I've played around with all of the solutions proposed over the last 2 days. Here are my comments. AdSubtract : This app seems to do the best at eliminating adds. It removed all the...

Eric Carter asks if Microsoft is approaching community in the right way ? My response follows: I don't believe there is singular "best" approach for Microsoft to participate in the community that is as simple as “Spend time doing X”. I...

So IE finally has an integrated pop-up blocker! This is great news for the millions of PC users that had not yet downloaded the google toolbar. I believe that it finally became OK for web browsers to do this because advertisers already have alternatives...

Sometimes I just wish Donald would just fire 2-3 of these people at a time. I'm not sure any of them should be running a piece of the Trump corporation. I guess there are reasons why he loses tons of money every year on pretty much everything but this...

I'm still working on digesting the detailed notes I took while engaging in discussions about online discussions and Microsoft's role in the community, but here are some random thoughts I had during the summit. More themed discussions: On Tuesday there...