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Friday, November 26, 2004 1:52 PM

Working from Paris for a week

I get to work in Paris, France next week (November 30 - December 4) and my French is VERY limited. So, I may end up adding a couple of posts about my experiences while in Paris. This will be my 4th time there, but I always see something different each
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Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:56 AM

Great Windows Applications to Download

I am often amazed at some of the applications people come up with. Here are a couple of specific ones that I have tried lately, and have been impressed with. DateLense for a very interesting and efficient way to look at your calendar (thanks Shish ) KeyHole
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:11 PM

BioDiesel = No Problem

A quick update to my BioDiesel question . We have now filled up our new diesel VW Beetle (the TDI model) with 100% BioDiesel, which I think is all soy beans in this country (USA). I am happy to report that the car drives exactly like it did with regular
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Monday, November 22, 2004 2:45 PM

Resource Kits

Resource Kits have some of the greatest tools for digging into a Microsoft product for fun, to learn more about the product, to support it better, or just to make your life easier. Here are a few that we find useful when building, running, and maintaining
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Friday, November 19, 2004 3:25 PM

Management Tip: The Upwardly Global MBA

I ran across a good article in strategy+business called The Upwardly Global MBA . While the article mostly focuses on how business schools need to change to prepare MBA students for today’s business world, I got some good tips on leadership from the article:
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:03 PM

Script to invoke the current user’s screen saver

Thanks to The Scripting Dude for this script, which I made a small correction to. Save it as a .vbs file and run it to invoke the screen saver for the currently logged on user. ' This script runs the screen saver associated to the current user. Set oShell
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 7:45 PM

Comparing search results

I wanted to find some materials to read to improve some skills, so I searched for "Improving Business Strategy Skills", without the quotes. None of the following resulted in anything useful for me, so I guess I need to refine my search. However, I figured
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Saturday, November 13, 2004 10:30 AM

Shish has a blog!

The Office, Project, InfoPath, and SharePoint (SPS and WSS) guru on my team finally has a blog. Visit The ShiSh List to see what things he is working on and what sailing races he has been in recently.
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Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:47 PM

Command-line view of ports in use

Here is a quick and easy way to dig into what ports are being used, and what apps are using them. Step 1: Find out what ports are being used: C:\>NetStat -o Which will return the following (your list will probably be much longer): Proto Local Address
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Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:46 PM

VB Script to get list of services into an Excel list

Borrowing some code from the following from the TechNet Script Repository for Office : Format a range of cells List Service Data in a Spreadsheet List Excel Color Values I was able to make a little VB Script app that lists all of the services on my Windows
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Sunday, November 07, 2004 5:33 PM

Management Tip: Hiring Great People

At the request of Bryce , I'm adding another tip on management; hiring great people. Of course, the EEC already has great people, so I took his request as a bit of a challenge. I've been fortunate enough to have interviewed numerous people during my time
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Saturday, November 06, 2004 5:10 PM

Free Microsoft Software

I didn’t realize it, but Microsoft has a TON of software you can try out for free. Microsoft’s Trial Software Center site has links to everything. Specifically: Windows Office Developers IT Professionals Business Users Home Users Games There is even a
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Friday, November 05, 2004 2:45 PM

10x10 - Interesting view of top news stories

http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html has an interesting view of the top news stories. An explanation from Micro Persuasion is: David Krane from Google points to a killer new site called 10x10 that every hour scans the RSS feeds of several leading international
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Friday, November 05, 2004 2:30 PM

Amazing job opportunity

One of the more impressive groups at Microsoft, in my opinion, is the one that runs the EEC. Why? Because they get to work on some of the most complex and forward thinking solutions with customers, and they get to have an immediate interaction and impact
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Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:30 PM

Microsoft 10-year party

I went to a dinner/party tonight for anyone who has been a Microsoft employee for 10 years. It was a good opportunity to meet up with some folks I used to work with back in PSS and swap some old stories: 24x7 support for LAN Manager, dialing into customer
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Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:23 AM

Improved Command-Line with Web Services App

Thanks to Darshan Singh from http://www.yukonxml.com/ . My simple app now formats the XML before displaying it to you. Here's the code - I know I learned something from it, so hopefully you can too: set SOAPClient = createobject("MSSOAP.SOAPClient") SOAPClient.mssoapinit
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Monday, November 01, 2004 6:24 PM

Command-line with Web Services and Arguments

I added the small feature of being able to pass an argument to the Stock.vbs file so you can pass it any stock quote. My Stock.vbs file is: set SOAPClient = createobject("MSSOAP.SOAPClient") SOAPClient.mssoapinit " http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx?WSDL
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