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January 2005 - Posts

Monday, January 31, 2005 7:17 PM

SOA Demo on MSDN's Channel 9

Our video is now live on http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=38823 . To repeat the explanation of this demo, which originated in e-mail from me to the Scobleizer himself is: I work in the Redmond MTC (Microsoft Technology Center) and we have
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Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:27 PM

Windows Media High Definition Video

Robert X. Cringely has an interested article where he guesses that the Mac Mini is going to be a device for downloading and watching movies in High Definition (HD), and make it proprietary like the iPod . Sounds pretty cool to me, but I already download
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:50 PM

BioDiesel Update: 33mpg on 100% vegetables (no petroleum)

A few people have asked me how the VW New Beetle (does anyone call it that, or just a “bug”?) is running on BioDiesel since my last post . I am happy to report that even though we drive it as if it were a sports car, since our other car is a Volvo wagon,
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Friday, January 21, 2005 6:11 PM

New Blog Look

Thanks to Josh Ledgard , my blog site now has a new look, including my photo. Now I'm sure that's pretty exciting for everyone! (Yes, it is a slow evening, the wife is working and the dog is sleeping).
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:34 PM

Fellow Microsoft Bloggers - where will it lead?

As you may have read, there are a bunch of Microsoft people from around the world in Redmond this week for an internal training event we call Envision. We even had a session today with Robert Scoble , Betsy Aoki , and Mike Torres leading an open discussion,
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Monday, January 17, 2005 10:53 PM

Good Demo Tips

I just found this useful blog entry, even though it is a few months old. It is from The Demo Coach Playbook . Basically, it says: It's a good thing to answer a question with "I don't know" so you can have something to follow up with after your demo. Also
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Friday, January 14, 2005 9:09 PM

Defending Microsoft’s Products and Bill Gates

At the risk of getting flamed from in the blogsphere, I’ve got to stand up and voice my opinion against Charles Cooper’s “ Gates and the code-jockey elite ”. It is generally filled with negative comments about Bill Gates being Chief Software Architect
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:22 PM

Passion by employees = great ideas and products

The Seattle PI has a story about The story behind Microsoft's new hand-held multimedia device , which is all about how 3 guys worked on their own time to make the Portable Media Center a reality. It's an interesting glimpse into how a single employee
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:11 PM

TulaFale: A Security Tool for Web Services

TulaFala looks to be pretting interesting. It is part of the Samoa Project from Microsoft Research in Cambridge. See http://securing.ws/ . The description of the problem and the project sounds impressive, and useful: An XML web service is, to a first
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Sunday, January 09, 2005 1:15 AM

Managing Yourself

This month’s (Jan 2005) edition of the Harvard Business Review is all about how to either get yourself through the day at the office, work your way up the corporate ladder, and other articles that make for a pretty good read for those of us working in
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