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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:17 AM

Just upgraded to Verizon FiOS from Comcast Blast

I've been using Comcast PowerBoost (6Mbps download / 768 Kbs upload) for about a year and have been pretty happy with it. The speed was fine and the price was good at $33/month. (Although I had to keep calling to get them to lower the price after the
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:33 PM

How to escape a leading # within the C preprocessor

This is probably a no-brainer for most people, but for some reason I banged my head against the wall for about an hour trying to figure this one out. Background Oftentimes you have source files (or in our case aspx files) that contain common headers,
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:13 PM

Hilarious video about what it's like to work here at Microsoft

This is a pretty realistic video of what it's like to work here. :) http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Life-At-Microsoft/
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:35 PM

SyncToy 1.4 and Vista 64-bit (x64) Error

I use the extremely useful SyncToy to mirror my data between various machines at home. However, it did not work on Vista x64. I found this very handy blog post which tells you how to fix the problem. I didn't feel like installing Windows Network Monitor
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:58 PM

Shahar has waaay too much time on his hands :)

Check out this blog post from Shahar, one of the devs I work with. http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2007/08/21/code-art-like-ascii-art-only-sucks-so-much-more-to-create.aspx
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Saturday, October 07, 2006 10:18 PM

Windows Vista RC2 has been released

I've been running RC1 for a little while now and I have been converted to Vista! It is very nice. RC2 has just been released and has some minor improvements and bug fixes. I'm downloading and installing it now. You can download it from http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc2/en/download.htm
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Friday, December 16, 2005 4:21 PM

A nice little article about defensive programming

Shahar Prish , one of my fellow teammates on the Excel Server (now called Excel Services by marketing) team has written a nice little article on defensive programming that I thought was pretty insightful. And no, I'm not Dev1, Dev2, or Dev3. :) http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2005/12/12/DefensiveProgramming1.asp
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:18 AM

Introductions

Well, I'm now a certified MSDN blogger. I've been meaning to do this for a long time, but just haven't gotten around to it. First of all, let me give a little information about myself. I'm a developer at Microsoft working on the next version of Excel
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