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I just fixed up a few minor bugs in RightSideUp that had been reported by a few users over time (mostly avoiding some unhandled exceptions in some corner cases and a few cosmetic things). Not a huge update overall but still probably worth the quick download
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but I am actually still around. There are definite signs of life on my personal blog (which has recently moved from jixal.com to MSN Spaces ) but it's definitely been slow on the work blog. Still piling up a bunch of topics that I should get around to
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Just got my Gmail account. It's pretty nice overall. I like the labeling system and how threads work in general. I also found the Gmail Notifier application which makes using gmail even better. It doesn't seem to be listed on Google's main labs page or
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Eric has decided to try something new after what I believe has been close to 10 years of compiler land (C++ and then C#). Eric was my first manager at MS when C# was about to go from SafeC to COOL. I've really enjoyed working with him over time and it's
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I installed XP SP2 RC2 a little over a week or so ago. The greatest thing happened as a result though I just realized it was possible. I can now type without any worries in the Address bar in IE that it will not interrupt or move my caret around if my
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Somehow I came across the Folklore site which has a bunch of interesting early-Apple stories straight from some of the original Macintosh guys like Andy Hertzfeld . Tons of interesting stuff if you enjoy that kind of reading. I sure do .
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The last few weeks have been the definition of busy for me. Getting beta 1 out the door hasn't exactly been a relaxed process and there's a bunch of other stuff going on at the same time. But the beta is finally out. Express SKUs are finally out. The
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I've been shacked up at the Rainbow Lodge Retreat with about twenty-something other MS managers this week attending one of the many management development courses available to us. It's been very interesting so far and have definitely picked up a few insights
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Another member of the C# compiler QA team has started blogging recently. Santosh is a very interesting guy. He's the only one on our team with an autographed artificial leg resting on his bookshelf that he brought with him from his previous work where
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I've got a Samsung Syncmaster 213T flat panel display at home. I love it except for how power save seems to have a mind of its own. At times and definitely on the rare side, a quick mouse click or key press will immediately “wake” the display.
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I haven't posted in a while so I figured I'd post a quick update on what's been going on (work and far from work-related): We're definitely getting into ship mode. Tough decisions are being made about what changes can still be made to the beta and every
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Today, I had one of those moments of minor frustration where a 'feature' bugged me. So I tried to find a way to fix it and it took about 10 minutes to figure out and confirm it worked. That's about 9.5 minutes longer than I would have liked, so I figured
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Grant has been my next-(office)door neighbor for a long time now. But tomorrow it comes to an end as he's moving upstairs to the JIT64 team . Grant started full-time about a month after I did almost five years ago now. It's going to be strange not having
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Got my new laptop today around 3pm. After spending ~2-3 hours, it's all ready to go. Got all the tools I use on it (VS, Perl, NUnit, Office, etc.), my enlistments to the dev and test source trees, and all the loving it could get from Windows Update. Overall,
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It's been almost a month since my last real post. Posts about ubercool bulldogs and mice (the furry kind) don't really count. But if anyone's interested it took about 3 days, but we got the first mouse and none since. Hopefully, it was a one hit wonder.
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