Florin Lazar - Consistency Checkpoint : Personal

Why is the new MSN Search engine ignoring my blog?

florinlazar — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:37:00 GMT

The new MSN Search engine is simply ignoring my blog: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%22Florin+Lazar%22&FORM=QBHP

Any other search engine will point the first hit to http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar but MSN Search seems to skip my page. I don't know why...

[Update April 18, 2005] Good news, MSN Search finally got to my blog today.

More about buying online

florinlazar — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:52:00 GMT

I spent 4 hours looking on the web for a camcorder. In reality most of this time I was reading reviews about resellers. Until I found this PC World article: Web buyer beware. And all the research ended.

Now I know why those websites sell products with hundreds of dollars below the retail price. Now I also know for sure that I will stick only with the merchants that are well-known (Amazon, Circuit-City etc). I'll have to pay more but at least the risk is much lower.

I learned once again that nothing in life comes "for free".

Buying online

florinlazar — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 23:53:00 GMT

I'm looking around to buy a camcorder. I know what I want: a Sony DCR-TRV22 Handycam Mini DV Digital Camcorder.

But I'm not decided from where to buy it. I'm looking at http://shopping.com/xPC-JVC_DCR_TRV22_MiniDV_Handycam_ and I see the price range: $449.99 - $894.77 for buying it online. What I don't understand is how a company can offer the product with $449.99 while the price is $699.99 at Sony's website.

Are the two products exactly the same? If yes, how come they have this big difference in price? How do YOU trust a website when buying online? Do you buy online? Thanks for any advice.

Hello World!

florinlazar — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 01:38:00 GMT

My name is Florin Lazar. I'm a member of XML Enterprise Services team at Microsoft. My main focus is making sure that our transaction services (MSDTC, System.Transactions etc) work as they should.

Why blogging? Because I find it to be a great way to share my thoughts and perspective. I will NOT be the official company line on any topic, but I will write about what I know and what I care about.

[originally posted Oct 12, 2003]

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/florinl/

florinlazar — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 01:22:00 GMT

My blog is moving now from http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/florinl/ to http://weblogs.asp.net/florinlazar

I will start migrating the existing posts to this new location.