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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:12 PM

XBox Live Feature wanted

I was online yesterday, and I realized that there's something missing from the Live experience. I have a number of friends on my friends list, but unfortunately it's hard for me to correlate between their gamertag and their real name. Why not allow me
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Monday, May 28, 2007 9:08 PM

7 hills (+4) and 29 undulations of Kirkland, 2007 edition

Today I did my first hard ride of the year, the 11-hill version 58-mile "metric century" 7 hills ride. Last year I did CTS training , and while it did great for my aerobic endurance, I didn't think it had enough strength work or interval work. This year
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:40 AM

Corn

A couple months ago, our lunch crowd ended up talking about High-Fructose Corn Syrup, the heir apparent to the wrath that had previously been applied to fat. HFCS (as those in the "biz" call it) is certainly of some concern because of its high glycemic
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:37 AM

Do I like my new group?

I've been asked this by a couple of people that I know. Today, when I came in, sitting on my brand new laptop (Lenovo thinkpad T60P) (everybody in the team gets laptops because the team does a lot of in-office collaboration (you agile folks might use
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:54 AM

Eric should write a useful blog post on...

A post where you can ask me to comment on a specific topic. So, if you want to know what *my* opinion is on the effects of the size of Venuzuelan oil reserves on the balance of power in OPEC, you can ask. I won't answer, but you can ask. Or, you could
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Monday, May 14, 2007 6:20 PM

This too will come to pass...

This year, I got into RAMROD (though it should more correctly be named "Ride on the Eastside of Mount Rainier in One Day because the roads are washed out" - I guess ROTEMROD isn't terribly catchy...), which features (among other things) a climb up Sunrise
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:11 PM

The danger of surrogate metrics...

I was reading a "Joel" post (I like Joel's writing, but I wish that he allowed comments) entitled " The Econ 101 Management Method ", which I find myself mostly in agreement. I'd like to expand a bit in the area of metrics - specifically what I call "surrogate
Posted by ericgu | 5 Comments
Friday, May 04, 2007 10:28 AM

Unit testing support in VS Pro

I'm at least a month late in linking to this, but if you've been paying very little attention it might still be new that VS Pro will support unit testing in Orcas. Which I think is great news.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:26 AM

Watchdog timer expired...

Microcontrollers (and other embedded systems) often feature a "watchdog timer". It's a small bit of hardware - usually not much more than a counter - that runs independently from the normal system. When something interesting is going on in the system,
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