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Friday, August 15, 2008 3:24 AM

Trouble Ahead- Trouble Behind

Well this marks roughly the one year anniversary of my blogging efforts, hence the eponymous post.  This happens to roughly coincide with the beginning of a long awaited vacation, and that portion of the annual review process where you review the
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:54 PM

Potential

The month since my last post has been incredibly hectic.  I've started this particular article several times, only to abandon the effort because there were too many other things needing to be done. So, just as the last time , I'm here working on
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 3:06 PM

Passion and Persistence

Well, it's the Memorial Day weekend here in Redmond, and I am in my office working for the second of the three days of the weekend.  Just can't stay away. Why? Because for months now I have been trying to improve the efficiency of our team's automated
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:04 AM

The light at the end of the WDF 1.7 tunnel

I know people want to know about this, but firm dates still prove elusive.  My best guess is today or tomorrow at this point. Basically we're trying to put an interim package up that satisfies everyone and isn't going to cause us foreseeable problems
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Friday, April 11, 2008 3:40 PM

Now for a different UMDF Coinstaller story...

This one can never affect you, so your blood pressure can start easing now.  It's just been a while since I tried to put on my "war stories" hat and tried tellin' one of them tales... In the Beginning was... the need to make sure drivers
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:15 AM

A New Target Date For WDF 1.7!

As noted in the previous post (among others) , I've not been saying anything about when WDF 1.7 will reappear for all those eager to begin using it, biding my time and waiting for a date that sounds achievable and has been given to a customer from our
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Monday, February 11, 2008 1:13 PM

Mystery caller unmasked

Well, I found out who left me the startling message about a KMDF 1.7 installation failure on Brazilian Windows 2000 on my instant messaging.  It was impish Ilias , who noticed the web interface for Messenger and wanted to see if it worked. 
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Friday, February 08, 2008 6:36 AM

How Things Really Work- Minding One's P's and Q's

Well, as I listen to the closing strains of Estimated Prophet [7/4 reggae, smoothly executed] followed by a rousing New Minglewood Blues (but my day began with Yoko Kanno's Adieu , just to show I retain some balance), I've decided to post some thoughts
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:49 PM

Worse than Phone Tag

Well, I put the Windows Live Messenger control up on my blog months ago. Today someone apparently used it- first time ever to the best of my knowledge. Of course, I was at a meeting (status should have shown as "Away"- it does when I test it, anyway).
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:51 AM

The Gump Factor

"Stupid is as stupid does"- folksy wisdom or just a trite phrase?. Many entries I write are in the spirit of the moment, and I take pains to be honest about the associated emotions, so my most recent posts may seem a bit over-wrought. No need to pay that
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:53 AM

Space is the Place

Just a brief note- since I have been prone to writing so much material that isn't quite technical enough it really belongs on MSDN, I've moved that kind of activity to my Windows Live Space [access limited]. As long as we're on the topic of space, I'll
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:36 AM

WDTF- so easy to use, I must have missed something...

This is admittedly a rework of an earlier (withdrawn) post. But I had occasion to play a bit with WDTF, and it was truly easy, so I've left most of it intact, just removing some out-of-place rants and a couple of typos... I'll leave the "Now Playing"
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Monday, November 12, 2007 11:09 AM

Just another Manic Monday

Now playing: Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop - The Egg and I Well, it seems that things really do stay the same the more they change! After posting my last post , it became clear one of those positions was indeed going to be filled within a few weeks. But the
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:54 AM

SOMEONE must want this job!

This isn't the sort of semi-permanent topic I'd like to be doing more of, but we've had an opening for an SDET or two for months now- I've been trying to do the work of more than one to cover this, things are going undone, customers are being under-served,
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 1:22 PM

Teachers will always matter

Yesterday was Worldwide Teacher Appreciation Day , and in honor of that, I'll post late, because that was a habit for me pretty much all through my formative years. For greatest personal impact to me, it's probably a tie: Mr. David Courtright, the mathematics
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