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Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 9:13 PM by jledgard
Read and display the comment count so I can see how many people have an opinion about the post. Read More...
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Ebay Spam

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:33 AM by jledgard
I wonder what E-bay does to try and stop phishers from leaching off of their membership. Seems like a problem they would want to solve. Gretchen and I recently used Ebay to sell some stuff and incurred the seller fees. Maybe we were ignorant. I just assumed Read More...
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Spam killed MyblogLog

Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:48 AM by jledgard
I removed the "My Blog Log" list of recent readers from the side of my page. That group, now at Yahoo, has some work to do in order to deal with the SPAM. For the last couple of days my recent reader list has included ads for "free online pharmacies" Read More...
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An easy way to bulk copy sharepoint document libraries

Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:36 AM by jledgard
Our team was migrating to a hosted TFS server environment this week so that we don't have to manage our own server anymore. One of the challenges I wasn't looking forward to was migrating our sharepoint document libraries. Thankfully I found this page Read More...
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Brad Abrams : PM Tip #21: Sanity Will Prevail

Posted Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:22 AM by jledgard
So, next time a “stupid” decision gets made rather than sulking about it, re-examine your case honestly then if you still believe in the vision tell yourself (and others) that sanity will prevail then go work towards making sure it does. Brad Read More...
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What's that blue post?

Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:33 AM by jledgard
I have RSSBandit set to flag any posts that mention my blog in blue. Today there was a blue flag from Joystiq . I didn't realize they read my blog. Good thing I put up my gamertag the other day... although my gamerscore is sort of embarrassing. If you Read More...
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The importance of setting good examples

Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 11:16 AM by jledgard
http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/mickey_gousset/archive/2006/01/06/590.aspx Given that, I shot an email off to Soma expressing my appreciation, but I didn't necessarily expect to hear back right way, if at all. And now comes the part where I say Microsoft Read More...
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Does brownie mix have more or less calories when it's cooked?

Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:31 AM by jledgard
Its slow around here this time of year and the subject of this post became the topic of a lunch conversation on our team. It's been suggested that Internet search engines can provide an answer to almost any inane question one could come up with. We proposed Read More...
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Kicking blogging off again with some humor

Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:04 PM by jledgard
I'm a little late to the party on this one, but you have to check out the latest Microsoft innovation... WSYP Via Church of the Customer Microsoft's new masochism initiative Microsoft WYSP : We feel your pain. Literally. I've just been waiting for this Read More...
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Advice on Giving Technical Presentations for Presenters

Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 2:30 PM by jledgard
Just blogging this for my own archives to read again in the future. [Via Fabulous Adventures In Coding ] A few months ago an old friend had to give her first talk at a conference. Now, she used to do community theatre back when we were in school together, Read More...
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The Two Faces of Microsoft

Posted Monday, March 28, 2005 10:30 AM by jledgard
Via Scoble What Make MS Evil I saw a company that cared about it’s employees and only getting the best people they could to create products that would empower people to do jobs. I was starting to believe Microsoft’s slogan on their company TV ads; “Your Read More...
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No Shock Here: Credit Card Signatures are Useless

Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:21 AM by jledgard
<Gasp!> I wasn't surprised to read this yesterday . I have, perhaps, some of the worst handwriting known to man. I'll be forever grateful that I took the SATs before they include a cursive writing portion. Maybe it helps to explain that my father Read More...
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Scooby Snax: My Filming and Editing Debut

Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:00 PM by jledgard
My Filming and Editing Debut: I just finished posting Devdiv's first "self produced" channel9 videos. We go through the end to end process of testcase analysis. Blame me if you get vertigo while watching these. I gained much respect for Scobles filming Read More...
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Scooby Snax: I don't like math

Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:58 PM by jledgard
Bad Math: I had the same thoughts Kevin did when I saw the Napster Superbowl ad telling me to do the math. "If you sign up when you are 15 years old. By the time your my age (30), you'll have spent $2,700 to not have your music collection in your physical Read More...
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Scooby Snax: Powertoys, iPods, and Groundhog Day

Posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:51 AM by jledgard
The History of Developer Powertoys: Raymond Chen wrote a decent post that outlined his involved in and the history of the classic "Windows Powertoys". One of my favorite parts was: "This was all back in the day when it was easy to put up something for Read More...
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