A View from Elsewhere

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I had a thought on the plane on the way over after we announced Atlas . The past ten years in programming has seen the rise of a huge number of ways of building similar-looking applications – from using VB6 to build a rich client experience, to dynamic...

Last weekend, I spent two days helping out a local charity, L'Arche Seattle . My version of helping is to go over and do some of the various light construction projects they need. A couple of months ago, for instance, I cut through a load-bearing wall...

Dan got picked up by Mary Jo . This project has been a total labor of love for Dan, whose full time job is C# product manager. The theory we had behind this Starter Kit was that the "micro ISV" was in decline due in part to the difficulty of getting...

I went to the men's room here at the RAI in Amsterdam. As I stood before the urinal, I looked down. There was a fly in the urinal. Not on the urinal, but actually etched into the porcelain in black ink. Ugh.

Brad Abrams seems to want a job . I do have openings, but they're going fast.

At the RAI, I noticed another thing in the bathroom. They have created a peculiar hybrid hand-drying machine. It uses paper (like paper towel) but puts it on a giant loop (like those towel rollers some bathrooms have), so you get the worst of both experiences...

Walking the Seattle Night and Day Challenge....

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Whenever I arrive at a new location, I want to check it out. Primarily, I want to know where my hotel is, and where my meetings are. To accomplish this, I've been trying to bend MSN Maps to my will (Google Maps doesn't have enough European coverage)....