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Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:28 AM

Because it's easier...

It's Tuesday, and I feel like I can't ignore the 'third notice' e-mails from authors and editors any more. I need to do some content today, not Ladybug. Hopefully he-who-must-not-be-named won't notice and chastise me for 'taking a day off'. Fortunately,
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Monday, September 29, 2003 10:16 AM

RssView.ascx

OK, Duncan has overly promoted a chunk of junk piece of code I wrote. So, I feel obliged to share, and embarrass myself again. Before I start, the requirements: The code was intended to run on the upcoming Longhorn Developer Center The idea was to have
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Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:29 PM

I return

For the two of you who noticed (other than people I work with), I am back. I thought about having some kind of 'Prodigal Content Strategist' posting or summut, but that's overly melodramatic. Where was I? I took a short trip through madness. Am I back?
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Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:39 PM

Thursday's E-mail index -- last day of the experiment...

Sent: 50 (the low end for my last job) Rec'd: 298 Tomorrow's 'Donuts for Community effort day' Thanks to those who commented on the experiment. For those who were annoyed, sorry. I close it with the immortal words of Laurie Anderson: 'Cause when love
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Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:06 PM

New content for ASP.NET DevCenter

Sorry it's been so long. Two new articles up on the ASP.NET Developer Center on MSDN: Creating a Cache Configuration Object for ASP.NET by Steve Smith Steve gathers up his good caching ideas into a handy object to automate best practices. Creating Custom
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Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:00 PM

I told them I shouldn't have been hired...

Finally tried the test Chris and Duncan (and ChrisAn) tried. Your Type is INTP Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving Strength of the preferences % 67 44 1 11 See? I don't even think enough... [Now Playing: Cumha Eoghain Rua Ui Neill (Lament For Owen
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Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:03 PM

one day, one day...

I'll look back on this morning and laugh. For details, get me drunk some time and say, "What does a Ladybug look like?" ( this one is appropriately named right now) Happier news -- I got my RAM for my server. The only problem in the install was that that
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Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:13 AM

E-mail only please

Didn't contribute to the experiment yesterday -- I was following in a great MSFT tradition -- "e-mail only" As all of you know, but not all of them do, it's impossible to code in 15 minute spurts. Sometimes, this is ... difficult ... for those that live
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 9:31 PM

The Quest for the Golden Interview

Brian writes of the interview process . While mine wasn't funny, I will overshare it with you all as I've grown melancholy (the treadmill of death will do that to you). My sad story began last century, in the glory days of 1999. This SOAP thing was just
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:11 PM

Raving about innovation

Just saw this interesting juxtaposition of Sun's upcoming simplified development environment, Project Rave and some other product. They are so good, Microsoft even copied their ideas before their product was publicly available. [Now Playing: Big Science
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:07 PM

Photos of the life of a Content Strategist

Or, stop me before I scribble myself As with the Academy awards, there are so many people to thank. At MSFT, one of the things I need to thank is the subsidized latte: However, I think it may either affect me, or Brian's camera hand: I have *got* to get
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 5:54 PM

Other duties as assigned (aka Day 3 of the experiment)

Looking back at my other postings, my life seems even more boring. It's much more fretful going through it the first time. Today's lowlights: Finished up my three POs (Weee!) Remembered I had another one to do (boooo!) Status meeting on that thing. "I
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Monday, September 08, 2003 5:34 PM

Distractions, distractions

Well, I got through one PO today. Three more to go, including a couple in 'yet another system that's supposed to make our lives easier'® While I should have been working on an internal project , or finishing the above three POs, I decided to get
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Monday, September 08, 2003 8:29 AM

Monday, grey Monday

Woke up at 4am. Not on purpose, not even because of my body having revenge . I made the mistake of buying Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on Saturday, and my fingers still wanted more. Very fine game. After the usual e-mail, scanning weblogs.asp.net
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Friday, September 05, 2003 2:13 PM

EOD 1

Have to leave early today -- apologies to those I didn't get paid. E-mail index Friday: Received: 199 Sent: 24
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Friday, September 05, 2003 11:11 AM

ongoing boredom/spam

Meeting done, only a few action items absorbed. Fortunately, people left the meeting early, so we could assign chunks to them. Cleaned up the Visual Studio Developer Center home page -- actually re-created the existing one in a new content management
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Friday, September 05, 2003 9:19 AM

A week in the life of a Content Strategist - Part 0

In my ongoing attempt to: Provide too much information Create blog spam Provide some transparency into Bill's Fish & Chips Shoppe Bore you all I have decided to start blogging of the comings and goings for a week. Why start on a Friday? I don't know,
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Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:31 PM

Public Resolution

I know it's not New Years' Eve, but I want to use this public venue to make a resolution. I, Kent Sharkey, promise to try to avoid commenting on the poor quality of other's code, except in a constructive manner. I likely simply don't understand the choices
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Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:14 PM

Making Better Software

Or is that 'Making Software Better'? An excellent database of features, bug-fixes et al for Visual Studio .NET. Thank you Adam Cogan for getting this up! Wish it had an RSS feed. Updated : Link added http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/BetterSoftwareSuggestions/VisualStudio.aspx
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Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:07 PM

Learn something new every night

OK, I should have looked, but I didn't. I happened to click on the Options tab up there ^ for the first time with the new UI. Wow. Did you see 'keywords'? It auto-magically replaces text in your postings with some text and/or an URL. Cool, now I'll never
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