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Monday, April 11, 2005 10:52 AM

Too little sleep, too much caffeine

It seems like forever since I got eight hours of decent sleep. I love my kids, but it sure would be nice if they would sleep past 6am! My wife is on me for drinking too much pop -- she thinks 4 a day is too many (if only she knew it was more like 5 or
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:15 PM

VS Core video on MSDN Channel 9

If you want to see what some of us VS Core and MSBuild folks look like in person, there's now a Channel 9 video of many of us. We each give a brief blurb on what we do. It's about 42min in length, so if you want to be able to skip around, here's how to
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:49 AM

New version of Sid Meier's "Pirates!" is a winner

Well, I got the game Pirates! for Christmas, and I have to say it’s one of the best games I’ve played in a long time. I was an addict of the original version back in the 80’s, and so I had high hopes for it. It doesn’t disappoint – it has many great components
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:04 PM

Come join the MSBuild team!!

MSBuild is one of the coolest technologies in Microsoft's Developer Division, and it also happens to be what I work on! We have a job opening for a Software Design Engineer, and are looking for world-class candidates. Here are some of the things we do
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:58 AM

Headhunters on the prowl

I am so jazzed...I've been at Microsoft for 11 years, often prowling public places with my MSFT account, and yet until today I've never had an outside recruiter come after me. But, my drought is finally up. "Barbara" (do they use aliases, I wonder?) called
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:40 AM

Back from the brink

Jimmy Buffet: "...like a man just released from indenture" Supertramp: "...like a ship without an anchor...like a slave without a chain..." Frank N. Furter: "I'm going home" OK, it's not quite as extreme as the legendary Transylvanian's final trip home,
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Friday, January 02, 2004 4:07 PM

Back from Easter Island and Chile

I had a great time on Easter Island. The pics are here . I'm having trouble getting Easter Island out of my head -- more than any other place I've visited overseas, it calls me to return. Take care! -Chris
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Friday, January 02, 2004 4:06 PM

Hello from ASP.NET!!

Greetings all - We've been moved (not voluntarily, I might add) to this new blog server. So far it looks like this a nicer system. Hopefully my old content will get moved over soon so that this blog isn't split up. Thanks for reading! Chris
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Friday, January 02, 2004 4:00 PM

My blog is moving

Dear Readers -   Please be advised that my blog is moving to http://weblogs.asp.net/cflaat  (but I don't have any content there yet).  See you there soon. Chris  
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Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:14 PM

Management tour of duty

Greetings, all!   My apologies again for doing such a bad job of keeping you up to date.   I have been absorbed with my duties as interim development manager for our team, and have not had much time to delve into the various technical things
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Friday, October 17, 2003 6:18 PM

Career crossroads

Greetings all –   My apologies for being a bit out of touch for the last few weeks.   There have been several “fires” burning that I’ve had to deal with, plus a short vacation for my 10-year college reunion a couple weeks ago.   And now,
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Monday, September 22, 2003 2:45 PM

Have to recommend "Whale Rider"

So, I saw the movie Whale Rider this weekend, and I have to say it's one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.  Reading a synopsis of the film you wouldn't think much of it, but it really grabs you.  The girl who plays the lead role does
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Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:15 PM

Software patents

Greetings, all!   It looks like the Europeans came to their senses and rejected American-style software patents.   See here for a ZDNet article on this.   There was a recent article in the Economist discussing the EU’s consideration of
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Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:19 PM

I exist!!!

So, the July stats for the GotDotNet blog pages came out, and I actually showed up with a statistically significant number of hits!  I started my blog in late June, and I had so few hits in June that I didn't even show up in the June report (kind
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Friday, July 25, 2003 7:05 PM

Easter Eggs & Credit Screens: good or bad?

Greetings, all.  So...I was re-reading (well, actually re-skimming) Pete McBreen's book Software Craftsmanship , which I think has a lot of interesting observations. One of the things he calls for is a return to the practice of letting software
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