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I’m on the final week of a three-week series of workshops Ireland Girl Geek Dinners are doing on Giving Technical Presentations , so wouldn’t you know that this would be the week I’ve had the absolute worst luck ever in my sessions? Last week
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Thanksgiving is one of my favourite holidays. If I could go home to my native Saint Louis once a year, it would always be for Thanksgiving. In fact I have never missed Thanksgiving with my family, even when I haven’t gone home for it. Well almost never,
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I took a break from blogging for a couple of weeks while I have been heads-down on a couple of projects as well as visiting the United States for my cousin’s wedding. I’m back and trying desperately to keep up with the barrage of announcements from
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With my Zune out of commission, I thought it was a good time to look for some additional podcasts and other content for my ears. I mentioned I had recently joined Audible.com, and one reason was because a friend recommended it so highly, and other
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Do you ever wonder how long things typically take you? Or where the day went? I have always been obsessed with productivity and tracking my tasks, even since I was a little kid. Sometimes I forget that I spent an afternoon helping
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June is a very interesting month at Microsoft Ireland. It’s very different from working in Redmond on a product team. In Redmond, your calendar and schedule, busy and non-busy times are defined by the product cycle. In subsidiaries,
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Apologies for the quietness around here – I’ve had a lot going on including planning for FY09, events and conferences, beta 2 releases (!), customer projects, guests in town and currently I’m living out of boxes in the middle of moving apartments.
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Do you use Twitter? Do you know what it is? Twitter is a microblogging tool. If that doesn't do anything to help clarify, let me try again. I like describing Twitter as a broadcast mechanism. I can broadcast whatever I'm doing, where I am, what I'm reading,
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Last Monday morning, I was doing some work at my desk, just like any normal Monday morning, except for one thing. There was someone standing over me, and an enormous camera pointed at me and my desk, filming some footage for a story on Ireland Girl Geek
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Okay now that I've had to endure two full Mondays I guess I'm supposed to be back in the full swing of things. I enjoyed a great, relaxing holiday and new year season including an amazing trip to India for the wedding of my friends Akshay and Shama! It
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I flew back to Dublin yesterday from my hometown of St. Louis after spending a week at home for Thanksgiving. The question I get most from people in Ireland lately is, "Isn't Thanksgiving bigger in the United States than Christmas?" The answer is actually,
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I just went to weather.com to see what I should pack for my Thanksgiving trip home. I laughed out loud when I saw this: Um, Missouri is completely and ridiculously flat. I clicked on it anyway and unsurprisingly, there won't be good snow or skiing in
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If there is one thing I love more than a three-day weekend, it's a three-day weekend with an extra hour baked in from Daylight Savings Time ending. I needed it, too. Earlier this week I came back from visiting one of my best friends who is volunteering
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Two weeks into my new stint in Dublin and here's the scoop: I'll be working primarily with Silverlight, WPF, AJAX/ASP.Net and other web technologies. I'll also be spending a fair amount of time working with students around Ireland. The Irish Microsoft
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It's hard to believe almost three months have passed - so much has changed with Silverlight, the former WPF/E. Mix was a success, we released some cool new surprises (not the least of which was a nice new name!), and our team is growing and working hard
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