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December 2004 - Posts

There are no stupid ideas...well, there are. I don't know why people say that.

Posted Friday, December 24, 2004 1:45 AM by kenhiatt
Leo McGarry (John Spencer) The West Wing, "Impact Winter" aired 12/15/2004 Read More...
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XBox Media Extender for Windows Media Center

Posted Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:52 PM by kenhiatt
I like Microsoft. I think we make cool products that make life better for folks. Despite my prejudice in this area, I do think that Microsoft often misses when it comes to first releases, especially when releasing things that involve hardware. I remember Read More...
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Hovercraft Anyone?

Posted Tuesday, December 21, 2004 6:38 PM by kenhiatt
It's a bit quiet in the EEC this week, most of the usual suspects are off enjoying an early break for the holidays. While I'm in the office and actually doing some work, I'm in a bit of a relaxed mode...it's amazing to me how productive you can be when Read More...
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If you've ever played foosball...

Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 11:16 AM by kenhiatt
...you have to take a look at this video (another from the same email newsletter). Read More...
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And folks tell me that skydiving is dangerous?

Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 7:06 AM by kenhiatt
Got a link to the video of a surfing shark tale via one of the email newsletters I receive. It's a bit long, but worth a watch. For the record, the only shark I've seen skydiving is located at Perris Valley, California. Read More...
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Who's writing Transact-SQL#?

Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 6:47 AM by kenhiatt
I understand the basic principles of SQL, can listen to DBAdmins without getting totally lost, and have used SQL Server to host all sorts of data from pictures to stats on which Free Cell games I've played. By no means do I consider myself a SQL programmer, Read More...
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Pot luck in the control center

Posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 7:05 PM by kenhiatt
From the title you might think that we had something weird going on in our data center, but no. It's the holiday season and our team had a pre-holiday break pot luck and white elephant gift exchange in our control center this afternoon. Everyone brought Read More...
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The Future of Home Entertainment

Posted Friday, December 10, 2004 3:28 AM by kenhiatt
I videotaped a short interview of a colleague the other day as part of the content for a web site that I am helping to create and one of the questions I posed was, "What product/feature would you like to see from Microsoft (or technology in general)?" Read More...
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A Digital Jaunt to the Library

Posted Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:02 PM by kenhiatt
Among the many resources I have at my disposal as a Microsoft employee is access to the Microsoft Library. As you might imagine for a company that spends billions of dollars each year in research and development, the Microsoft Library is a pretty good Read More...
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Quickstream DV - First Look

Posted Thursday, December 02, 2004 5:48 PM by kenhiatt
As part of my AV role within the EEC, I shoot and edit quite a bit of video. Currently most of the video we shoot is covering meetings between customers and product groups. We'll shoot using two cameras and the meeting will last about an hour. After the Read More...
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