Triquint Semiconductor: Semiconductor Firm Migrates SAP to Microsoft on Dell; Doubles Performance, Pares Costs TriQuint Semiconductor provides high-performance modules and components for communications applications. The company uses SAP as its enterprise...

Supercomputer Leader Shortens Financial-Close Cycle by 20 Percent with Microsoft Office Solution At Cray, the monthly financial-close process was complex, involving six teams totaling more than 30 individuals distributed internationally and comprising...

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This was a hugely popular event last year when Bill introduced the concept of Connected Systems and demonstrated technology around Windows Workflow, Mendocino, and Office integration with SQL Server. Register now! MSDN Webcast: Bill Gates Office Developer...

Now that I'm back on the water, I'm putting the focus on two items: 1. Keeping winter muscle but leaning down to racing weight (going from about 208 lbs to 195). 2. Transitioning from static weight exercises to specific strength via in-the boat...

The article is titled "Connecting Web Services with the System.ServiceModel" and is summarized as follows: WCF is designed with the primary objective of solving some of those problems by unifying all the Microsoft technology stacks out there, such...

I am happy to say I am back on the water, the boat checks out after a couple months in storage, and I am now the proud owner of a blister on each hand! The Passaic was chilly and windy (raised the rig a couple notches), but quite clean - had a 10-mile...

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Don't know if anyone saw the clip from the press conference last night at which Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick were still going at each other. Seriously guys, on the world stage of a press conference, no one cares about your internal team squabbles, and...

Microsoft was ranked #6 globally, #10 in the US, and #2 for financial soundness in this year's Fortune Magazine survey. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/ My alma mater GE scored #1 both domestically and globally, and #1 for talent...

Not brand new, but haven't posted before: This is a solution template built using Microsoft Office to help automate value stream mapping and project management for lean transformations. http://www.microsoft.com/office/showcase/lean/default.mspx...

New release of Microsoft Dynamics Snap: Four new snap-in programs allow Microsoft Office 2003 users to interact with data and business processes from certain Microsoft Dynamics applications as they create documents, collaborate and manage their calendar...

Recent articles have sort of a "you reap what you sow" attitude toward the US losing its IOC executive board seat. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11273455/ This may be a net positive for rowing as the EU probably values it more broadly than the US...

Erg piece: 2K Total time: 6:29 Track 1: Bad Religion, "The Empire Strikes First" Track 2: Dag Nasty, "Safe" Why I picked these songs: Bad Religion sets a steady, heavy, rhythmic pace that carries through the 1000, then Dag Nasty brings...

Went to put the docks back in at Nereid Boat Club on Saturday - was fine for a while, but all of a sudden the wind reversed direction, the temperature dropped about 20 dgrees, and snow started blowing horizontally. That was the end of the dock installation...

Announcing the Peak Performance Summit Series We have a series of events coming up in March and April highlighting business issues and industry case studies involving customers who have achieved success with Microsoft and our partners in the following...

It is a commentary on the progress Microsoft has made in becoming a partner to the oil and gas industry that Ballmer was able to speak at one of teh major events of the year. Remarks posted at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2005/02-16cera...

Erg piece: 2K ErgTrack: "Lolita" by Elefant "I Drank the Wine" by Murder City Devils Total time: 6:44 This is about 15 seconds longer than my current target time, but matches very well to my race plan. "Lolita" starts heavy and steady...

As we approach the end of winter training season and CRASH-Bs, I thought it would be cool to post favorite SOUNDTRACKS that you use to motivate yourself for boring, painful ERG workouts. Hence the name "ErgTracks". It will also be interesting to see how...

1. An Empacher - bright yellow so Dick Cheney doesn't shoot you. 2. A Resolute - sleek black carbon fiber so that if Dick Cheney shoots you, he'll think it's classified and keep it a secret. 3. A Hudson - so that if Dick Cheney shoots you, he can...

Wanted to weigh in on some great results from a new strength program that I've tried this year. The theory is based on some recent research published in Peak Performance on the body's hormonal response to different types of strength training programs...

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