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Moving on to something new, but staying close

After working at Microsoft for over 7 years as an employee and almost 5 years before that as a contractor/vendor, I’ve decided it’s time for me to do become independent and start my own company. My official last day at Microsoft is July 18 Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 4:48 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Using Ctrl+F1 in Office 2007 to hide/show ribbon toolbar

I recently found a useful hotkey tip using various applications in Office 2007. Just toggle Ctrl+F1 to show and hide the ribbon toolbar area. This is similar to the F11 hotkey in Internet Explorer to toggle IE full screen view on and off. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:19 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Sara Ford commands ScooterCam-1 at TechEd07

At TechEd 2007, Sara Ford drives what she calls ScooterCam-1 to get around the conference due to her injured leg from a recent hiking incident (see her blog post Not broken after all ). The name ScooterCam is derived from the fact that she hooked up a Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:51 PM by klevy | 4 Comments
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RSS subscribers include the reader, the addict, and the pack-rat

As more people start creating blogs and more web sites that distribute new content provide RSS (and Atom) feeds, there is more and more opportunity to subscribe to content using some type of feed reader. I've been using the NewsGator add-in for Outlook Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:11 AM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Very cool illusion

This very cool illusion from an animated set of images shows how complex the relationship is between the eyes and the brain. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:10 PM by klevy | 1 Comments
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01:02:03 04/05/06, Pacific Time

The time/date is... 1,2,3,4,5,6. I'm posting this entry at 3 seconds after 1:02am on April 5th, 2006 - 1:02:03 4/5/06 . For those in Europe and other parts of the world who format dates using day/month/year , they can post look forward to this once in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:02 AM by klevy | 2 Comments
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Behind the camera on Channel 9, take 2

Since my blog post Behind the camera on Channel 9 last November, I have been behind the camera on Channel 9 for three video interviews with Visual Studio 2005 team members before I moved to the Windows Live Platform team in late February: Cameron Slade Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:36 AM by klevy | (Comments Off)

Channel 9 Behind the Scenes video

There is a new video interview on Channel 9 called Channel 9 Behind the Scenes , where I take my digital camera behind the scenes of the making of a Channel 9 video and interview Robert Scoble, joined by fellow channel 9 team member Charles Torre. I had Read More...
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 3:34 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Behind the camera on Channel 9

Recently, at the suggestion of Robert Scoble , I started going behind the camera on Channel 9 doing interviews and video recording. Listed below are the recent Channel 9 interviews I've done behind the camera. The most recent ones listed first along with Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:54 PM by klevy | 1 Comments

Scuba-Man speaks at Seattle Code Camp

In late August, I got into scuba diving by getting PADI open water certified just before my first visit to Hawaii (Maui). Last Friday night after work I went to Underwater Sports in Bellevue in a class with 3 others from 6pm-9pm for my advanced certification Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:19 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Currency conversions on the go

I find myself checking the XE.com web site about every other day just for fun to take a quick peak to see how the U.S. dollar is against the Euro. When I was in Europe last November, it was around 1.31 $ per Euro. The $ was down to 1.34 per Euro maybe Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:03 AM by klevy | 1 Comments
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Wandering bear takes dip in family's pool

This photo of a bear in someone's backyard pool in L.A. is one of the funniest I've seen in awhile. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 23, 2005 8:27 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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More on blogging benefits and Ultimate Ears

It wasn't that long ago when querying a top search engine on my name (Ken Levy) resulted in many top links to people other than me, I was pretty far down the result page. I notice now that both MSN Search and Google both have the #1 search result linking Read More...
Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 7:38 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)

Good things come to those who blog

There are many stories about people who have great blogs and as a result have had a door opened for them to get a better job, obtain new business opportunities, make new friends, and more. Often these opportunities would have have occurred if it wasn't Read More...
Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 2:20 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)

Microsoft TerraServer maps offer more detail than Google Maps

I recently posted a blog entry called Satellite views of Microsoft and more from Google Maps . While Google Maps is cool for getting driving maps and directions online, I found that Microsoft TerraServer map images have many times more up close detail Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:08 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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