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Friday, February 20, 2004 1:19 PM

My Motorolla MPX200 died

Rats! As I get ready to go on a vacation this next week, my Motorolla MPX-200 smartphone just up and died on me. I had to dust off my old T68i (thank god for GSM and SIM cards, I can just swap them). This is a real bummer though. I was planning on leaving
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:35 PM

DOCTYPE switch and web design

A lot of people don’t know that the DOCTYPE switch in your web page can have a profound impact on how your page layout works. For example, the CSS Box Model will look different in WinIE 6 depending on the DOCTYPE switch. If you are doing web design
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:12 PM

Referreral spam from John Kerry?

Yep, you guessed it. Seems that John Kerry’s blog is spamming my blog . I can’t think of any other reason this would appear on my Referrer log.
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:21 AM

IMAP, Thunderbird, and mail clients

For much of my career at Microsoft I’ve owned mail related features. I pretty much designed all the IMAP support in Entourage with Mike Fullerton and Steve Friesen and I’m pretty happy with how it works. IMAP itself is a complex protocol to implement
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:55 PM

software is expensive

As a Microsoft Employee I am very spoiled. I have the luxury of being able to install most any piece of Microsoft software I want, or purchasing that software for about 10% of its retail cost. Over time I’ve come to realize that this is a pretty
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 1:22 AM

Tablet PC + Office Internet Fax Service = Cool

In my effort to replace analogue systems in my life with digital ones, my Tablet PC has allowed me to completely replace the need to ever use a fax machine. I can send and receive faxes anywhere that I can get an Internet Connection. I can also annotate
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:59 AM

bye bye Gearhost , hello EAServe (ASP.NET hosts)

Sorry to all those folks who signed up with Gearhost on my recommendation. Having been with them for 4 months now, I've come to the conclusion that they have intolerable uptime and unacceptable customer service. My site goes down on average once a day.
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Friday, February 13, 2004 7:51 PM

WMA, AAC, MP3 and ripping audio

Jeff Key recently posted on WMA/AAC/iTunes etc etc. I personally don't care about any of this and here is why: I have an iPod I have a Windows Media Center PC I have a few Windows XP machines I have a few Macs I want to be able to listen to my music everywhere.
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Friday, February 13, 2004 1:05 AM

Highlighting .NET code from FreeTextBox

I've always wanted an easy (built into my blog editor) way to take a code snippet like this: // Hello World static void Main() { Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); } and make it look pretty like this: // Hello World static void Main() { Console.WriteLine(
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Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:12 PM

SBC, ATT and Vonage

I just received my last SBC phone bill today. That's right, no more DSL, no more local and no more long distance. For some weird reason I felt compelled to switch once I ditched DSL for the cable modem (3.1 down/ ~ 700 up) just because I could. Well,
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Thursday, February 12, 2004 8:24 AM

Palm drops Apple

Bad news for Apple I guess. The next Palm OS won't natively support the mac . I bet that Apple will manage to, er, “correct” this situation.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:07 AM

C# Cookbook

Just got my C# Cookbook . I've already checked out the chapter on Regular Expressions and it's pretty much exactly what I needed to figure out how to use them. You can read that sample chapter online . I've used our Microsoft Library to read lots of .NET
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004 6:47 PM

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-005 (Virtual PC for Mac)

If you are a Virtual PC 6 for Mac user you'll want to read the security bulletin and download the 6.1.1 update.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:40 AM

CSS styles generated in ASP.NET

I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions or advice on how to keep track of custom css styles that are generated by asp.net code. dasBlog has dozens of styles that are dynamically generated all over the place. While one can be good about manually adding
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Monday, February 09, 2004 7:06 PM

Another MacBU blogger

I think that brings us up to 4-5 bloggers in MacBU ? Not sure. Anyway, Rick Schaut has been working on Mac Word for almost half my life (14 years) ;-). Welcome to the blogsphere.
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Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:56 AM

C# coding standards for private member variables?

I've read numerous documents and books and seen various references on how to refer to private member variables in a class . I have been inconsistent myself depending on what I'm doing and I'm wondering what some others out there use or recommend. Here
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Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:23 AM

Will Apple Go .NET?

[OSNews] Will Apple Go .NET? Interesting article. I'm not holding my breath waiting, but I think this would be great. Personally, as a hobbyist programmer, I've found .NET: C# and VB.NET to be incredibly easy to learn and powerful. On the Mac I used to
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Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:40 PM

OneNote blog posting and CSS

So it seems there is a slight problem posting to this blog from OneNote. As soon as you add some ink to the post, OneNote uses CSS to absolutely position everything so that it's WYSIWYG. It doesn't do this for embedded images, just ink. That's kind of
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Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:47 PM

Post from OneNote

So, I didn't realize this, but it turns out that I can post to my blog using OneNote. Pretty cool stuff. I am using the Mail-To-Weblog feature of dasBlog to get this on my blog. Basically I compose the post in OneNote, click the e-mail button, and send
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