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More than meets the eye...

Posted Saturday, July 07, 2007 3:05 PM by CRathjen
Totally off topic: We just got back from watching Transformers . I'll write up a bigger review if there's interest. The short version: It was awesome. Great action movie, one of the few that actually does a decent job at also telling a story and connecting Read More...
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We have added his biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.

Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 10:18 AM by CRathjen
Becoming a full-time employee of Microsoft (or "MSFTie") is often jokingly referred to as " joining the collective " in public and even within our cybernetic halls. I mentioned awhile back that we'd gotten some additional team-members on the Setup/Admin/Ops Read More...
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Tagged!

Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 6:08 PM by CRathjen
James tagged me - I guess it was only a matter of time. Being the avid Snow Crash fan that I am, I feel like I'm propagating a virus... gen(n-1) tag: James Five Things You Didn't Know About Me In the same vein (no pun intended) as James', I was quite Read More...
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Vista RC1 goodness

Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 10:26 AM by CRathjen
Slightly off my normal topics, but I wanted to post a quick note about Vista. More of a "datapoint" than a general review. On the downside, I'm discovering that 1GB of RAM just really isn't enough for what I do with a machine (professionally) these days Read More...
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Team Foundation Server: Why are my files transferring so slowly?

Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:59 PM by CRathjen
I'm not sure if anyone "in the field" has run into this (yet), but it's happened to us a couple times internally now, and I figured other folks might be interested in the issue. We've seen situations where larger files (in the latest case, 100 meg) take Read More...
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Dust-busting for fun and profit: Your computer will thank you!

Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 11:00 AM by CRathjen
I was just reading Raymond's latest post , partially relating to computer heat (and how the symptoms it typically presents might not be heat-related after all). I was going to comment with my own anecdote, but it's more of an aside, so I decided to post Read More...
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Random XP tip: Scheduled disk defragmentation

Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 11:25 AM by CRathjen
It came to my attention that a lot of folks don't know about one of the very nice additions that came long with the rest of Windows XP: A command-line interface to the disk defragmenter. This means it's now easy to setup a scheduled task to defrag your Read More...
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Resolved Work Item: Get Married

Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:23 AM by CRathjen
Two weeks ago, I was working extra-hard to help get our branch/merge features ready for the Release Candidate. Last week was a change of pace - I was on the beautiful island of St. Lucia, getting married! It was something of an open secret (hmm, they've Read More...
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Shameless Plug: Fog Creek Copilot

Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:56 AM by CRathjen
I had another opportunity to use Copilot last night, helping out a relative with a cranky printer. What is Copilot? I'll sum it up as "Remote Desktop for Dummies," but I mean that in the best possible way. Basically, it's a tool to let a geek get at a Read More...
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So close...yet so far...

Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 5:38 PM by CRathjen
There's a LOT to like in the 2.0 version of the Framework and Base Class Library. But, I ran into something today that I feel is missing. Or at least, it'd be really cool of it was there. I want to be able to override the ToString method on an enum. I Read More...
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Non-work blog

Posted Friday, September 02, 2005 11:09 AM by CRathjen
Pointer to personal blog... Read More...
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<-- Blogging n00b

Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 1:16 PM by CRathjen
Apparently, I'm more of a blogging neophyte than I thought. Or, I could blame the infrastructure, I suppose. I set anonymous comments to 'moderate' instead of publish by default. Which is great, but apparently I don't get notified when there are unmoderated Read More...
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Computer Science != Software Engineering

Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:51 PM by CRathjen
I like to think the title of this blog post is common knowledge, but I still see places where the terms are used interchangeably all too often. As Dijkstra is often quoted, "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." Read More...
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Rant: Cell phone drivers are a SOLVEABLE PROBLEM!

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 9:34 AM by CRathjen
So, I got to watch some of the spectacular side effects of driving while cradling a cell phone on the way home yesterday. You know, the mile-long backup from a trivial accident, and the countless near misses behind it as drivers with cell phones change Read More...
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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:18 PM by CRathjen
So, since I saw Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith last week, and since I’m a self-respecting geek, I just have to render my opinion. I’m not a manager, but I’ll use a bullet list anyway. :) Warning: Mild spoilers may follow. The Good The action sequences Read More...
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