The Galactic Patrol

Saving the Universe from Boskone and Bugs

I've been posting some comments about Indigo on my other blog - feel free to subscribe if you're...

Date: 03/22/2005

To answer a question from my comments, the subscription feed for my moved blog is:...

Date: 11/19/2004

I find that (a) I don’t tend to write very many technical entries on this blog (which offends...

Date: 11/07/2004

Pat Helland just posted some terrible (and terribly personal) news on his blog – my heart goes...

Date: 10/29/2004

Reason #193 why I like working for Microsoft: I’m leaving work today, and as usual I take the...

Date: 10/14/2004

It seems like the week for good customer service on the blogs I read – here we see an example...

Date: 10/01/2004

Mitch Denny proposes a very cool idea for popping up in-place GUI when you need to edit a formatted...

Date: 08/17/2004

A friend of mine recently posted about the Microsoft presence in Indian schools. He points out the...

Date: 07/30/2004

I read here that Rory is coming to work at Microsoft. Outstanding! I have to admit that when I do my...

Date: 07/29/2004

I was reading a post about Visual Studio refactoring support in the next version, and I noticed that...

Date: 07/26/2004

Despite my skepticism about head-mounted displays, I remain enthusiastic about the possibilities of...

Date: 07/23/2004

If you think the MSDN Product Feedback Center rating equation isn’t right, go vote for this...

Date: 07/17/2004

This is the story of an inspirational speech that, well – wasn’t. I went to a divisional...

Date: 06/24/2004

I made the following challenge over on Channel 9 – anyone care to take up the gauntlet?...

Date: 06/22/2004

If you’ve ever coded in C, you owe it to yourself to check out the (fully functional) programs...

Date: 06/22/2004

Apparently a professor (and ham radio enthusiast) from the University of Rhode Island has invented a...

Date: 06/17/2004

I notice Sam Gentile references a tool for registering managed objects in the COM+ catalog even if...

Date: 05/11/2004

I’m joining the current blog meme… “But worship was not on the docket that night,...

Date: 04/30/2004

Wow, this car is incredible. Its price tag is a few orders of magnitude out of my league, but a man...

Date: 04/29/2004

Hank Wallace posted a question recently about the <NotifyTo> element in a WS-Eventing...

Date: 04/23/2004

My wife recently needed a new laptop, so we splurged and got her a TabletPC. At first, I have to...

Date: 04/14/2004

Just out of curiosity, how many people actually reload the toothbrush with toothpaste between doing...

Date: 03/30/2004

You see, back in the age of the mighty civilization of the dinosaurs, they had begun experimenting...

Date: 03/30/2004

I just ran across this interesting solicitation: a San Francisco high school competing in a robotic...

Date: 03/17/2004

I just ran across this article describing a pair of sunglasses with a video display built into it....

Date: 03/17/2004

A bit of terminology discussion here… In a recent article, Yasser introduced this following...

Date: 03/15/2004

Wow, Pat Helland is blogging – that’s too cool. Update: for those who don't know of Pat...

Date: 03/12/2004

I notice that the QID (the qualifying round) for the DARPA “Grand Challenge” robot race...

Date: 03/08/2004

I’ve noticed that Rich Turner has been posting some excellent Indigo posts recently on his...

Date: 03/08/2004

At home I am pretty steeped in a Democratic culture; my wife is a staunch Democrat, as are her...

Date: 03/08/2004

I build my blogroll while reading blogs – that is, when I follow a link to an interesting blog...

Date: 03/01/2004

I just ran across this magnificent home theater setup. (Found via Furrygoat.)

Date: 02/27/2004

As a sideline follower of the development of the Atom syndication format and API, I was at first...

Date: 02/27/2004

A co-worker of mine kindly pointed out an error in my WS-Eventing messages; the <NotifyTo>...

Date: 02/17/2004

Ok, now pay close attention; this part gets real complicated. The required elements of a...

Date: 02/17/2004

AConrad posts the following: “When the temperature is lower then -15 below zero, very hot...

Date: 02/13/2004

Before I talk about the optional elements on a WS-Eventing subscription, I’d like to quickly...

Date: 02/12/2004

In part I of my discussion of WS-Eventing, I deliberately left the namespaces off the elements of...

Date: 02/12/2004

(Warning: slightly off-color) Dino has an interesting take on “Attribute-Based...

Date: 02/12/2004

There was an interesting bit on NPR this morning about how the DEA is cracking down on some doctors...

Date: 02/12/2004

Wes makes an interesting conjecture about why 3D animated movies tend to be better than their 2D...

Date: 02/11/2004

James Avery recently had a discussion about the format of his blog entries. He tends to post once a...

Date: 02/11/2004

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