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Sunday, October 31, 2004 5:26 PM

Halloween Circuitry

I managed to steal a bit of time in the past few weeks to build some circuitry for Halloween. I'd hoped to do something with pneumatics, but that didn't happen, so we had to settle for a few smaller things. I'm also using this as an opportunity to teach
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Friday, October 29, 2004 11:08 AM

Corporate blogging and PR...

I came across an interesting discussion on Corporate blogging and PR departments (via Scoble ), and as so often happens, my short reply turned into a long one, and I thought I'd post it here. BTW, I agree with what Clarke said. The question is whether
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Friday, October 29, 2004 8:10 AM

Flu

There's a new flu going around Microsoft. So far, it's only been caught by a few people, but I think that in the next two weeks, it's going to reach epidemic proportions. Apparently, if you've got it, you can't even get out of your chair for hours, and
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Monday, October 25, 2004 7:54 AM

More on group blogs

I got an email today from Gary Cornell (Apress publisher), who told me that they had decided to split their blogs out into individual blogs, based partly on my comments about group blogs . That triggered another thought about group blogs, something I
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Friday, October 22, 2004 2:17 PM

NASA World Wind (Warning: Don't read this post)

You had to go and read it, didn't you. Today I got a link to an application I had been hoping to write, someday. Take various sources of imagery of the earth (landsat, topo maps, USGS aerial, etc.) Add in elevation data from the Shuttle synthetic aperture
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Monday, October 18, 2004 8:38 PM

Donate to your local phone company

I was looking at my Cingular bill tonight, at the various fees. For our most recent bill, we paid $4.75 in "other fees and charges". The details are: Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee = $2.50 Federal Universal Services Charge = $1.88 State B and O Surcharge
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Friday, October 15, 2004 10:51 AM

Edit and Continue in Whidbey...

Soma has just announced that C# will support Edit and Continue in Whidbey . Waaay back when we first planned Whidbey, one of the questions we asked was "is refactoring or edit and continue more important"? We knew that our users wanted both, but we didn't
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 9:18 AM

LCD Monitors and ClearType

XP does a nice job of enabling ClearType automatically if you have a laptop, but it doesn't know if you have an LCD display, so many people don't benefit from it. Here's a page that helps you turn it on and tune it.
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Friday, October 08, 2004 11:16 AM

And a recommendation for you...

Waaaaay back in about 1988, my wife and I wandered over to a Medieval arts fair in Kent, WA. I've had friends that were in SCA , but I was never really into it myself, so we didn't really have a purpose to be there. While we we wandering, we came across
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Friday, October 08, 2004 10:53 AM

Music Recommendations - Thanks...

Wow. Thanks for all the ideas. It's a pretty big list, and while there were a few groups I already listen to (it was nice to see "Toto" make the list - I listened to Hydra last week. Given when I went to school, I've certainly heard "The sun is the same
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Friday, October 08, 2004 8:35 AM

Visual Studio "Orcas"

There has been some talk about the follow-on release to Visual Studio Whidbey , which is codenamed "Orcas". I won't comment on the release, since I'm not on the team any more, but Dan's title makes an allusion to Marine Mammals, and some of you might
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Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:40 PM

Music Recommendations

I'm spending a lot more time listening to music in my new job, and I'd like to expand my collection. That's where you come in. I need some recommendations. For reference, here are a few group I listen to: Rock/Pop: Rush Green Day Third Eye Blind The aforementioned
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Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:33 PM

Couches * 2 (thank you Levitz)

This morning two new couches showed up at our residence this morning. We'd originally headed out furniture shopping - not one of my favorite pasttimes - because we had some couch needs. The basement / rec room couch was nearly 15 years old (that's 90
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:59 PM

Review: American Idiot

My CD of Green Day's new "American Idiot" showed up Monday, and after listening to it a few times, I think it's a pretty good effort. But it may not be the Green Day that you're used to hearing, and, while I'm not really sure where the boundaries of "punk"
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Monday, October 04, 2004 1:02 PM

Aerodynamic Flutter

A discussion on flutter in rocket fins let to this archive of Flutter tests from the Smithsonian. Don't watch this if you're going to be flying soon...
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Monday, October 04, 2004 9:18 AM

Burt and Paul...

Before I came in this morning, I watched the second launch of Burt Rutan's and Paul Allen's (well, Scaled Composite's , really...) SpaceShip One , in pursuit of the Ansari X Prize . All appearances are that they have won, but it's not official until the
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Monday, October 04, 2004 9:00 AM

What's wrong with this code? (Answer)

A few days ago, I posted some code with a problem in it. Here's the segment I posted: IWMStreamConfig iStreamConfig = ...; // set somewhere else... DirectShow.IWMMediaProps mediaProperties = (DirectShow.IWMMediaProps) iStreamConfig; uint typeSize = 0;
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Sunday, October 03, 2004 9:38 PM

More bicycle test rides...

I took advantage of the wonderful early October weather today to do some more test riding. I'd plannd on going to Bicycle Center of Issaquah , but today was "keep people away from our businesses" day at Issaquah, so after spending 20 minutes in traffic
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Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:32 PM

Halloween Fun

My daughter and I have been planning on a special Halloween surprise for our Trick-or-treaters for a few days, and this morning we went to our local Halloween-surprise-superstore. What, you don't have such a store? Well, neither do we. Sure, one can head
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