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Sunday, May 29, 2005 8:37 PM

To be continued... on my blog

Until further notice, I'm discontinuing cross posting to this blog. As always, all the posts here and future posts are published on my own hosted blog at http://www.shahine.com/omar . If you want to continue getting my content, I've provided some easy
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Saturday, May 21, 2005 3:58 PM

Treo 650 Review Part 3

I almost forgot that I never finished my Treo Review Series. The device is so integrated into my habits now that I don't even notice how much I depend on and value the device. It's been over a month since the last review, and that's a good thing because
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Saturday, May 21, 2005 2:39 PM

Good luck Dennis!

Dennis Cheung, someone that I interviewed for his first job out of college, and someone who I managed for a while in MacBU, announced that he is leaving the MacBU for the MSN Desktop Search Team . I seriously dig the hard work and attitude of the Desktop
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Friday, May 20, 2005 7:34 PM

This blog location

For a while now (since January 2004) I have been posting both to my personal blog ( http://www.shahine.com/omar/ ) and another blog located at http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/ . At the time there were about 140 Microsoft blogs on blogs.msdn.com. I don't actually
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:13 PM

Wow I was slashdotted!

I never thought it would happen, but thanks to Dan Crevier's recent patent, I was slashdotted because I have a blog post that gives some background on Dan (who to this day is still one of the smartest people I've had the honour of working with at Microsoft).
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:03 AM

Newsgator + FeedDemon

Interesting indeed . I started using FeedDemon because I grew tired of having my RSS in Outlook (I do not think RSS belongs there for high volume RSS readers). Before using FeedDemon though I was using NewsGator Online, and then added FeedDemon because
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Saturday, May 14, 2005 5:09 PM

When the work you do is architectural (MSN mobile messaging)

The other day I had an experience with my computer, and MSN's software that just made me smile. You see, for the past year or so folks on my team have been involved on a feature that took coordination from dozens of internal teams. This was a big feature,
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:52 AM

Yahoo Music

Here is why Yahoo Music is cool. Yes I work for MSN, and sure I wish MSN Music had this same feature, but I'm super excited that Yahoo Music launched their business. Why? THEY ARE BUILT ON OUR PLATFORM! Let me explain. A few months ago I wrote this post
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:28 AM

Vacation over, Maui rocked

Well I returned from a 10 day break from work this past Saturday, and on Monday I hit the ground running. Of course before I left for work I made two big mistakes. I subscribed to these two mailing lists at work and I didn't want them filling up my inbox
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Friday, April 29, 2005 7:48 PM

Vacation in progress

If you are trying to reach me over the next week, I will be unavailable. Many have asked me why I'm on vacation so much these past few weeks. Well, my wife has been in Oahu for the past 9 weeks doing a rotation at Kaiser Permanente. One of the things
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 11:21 PM

I'm not alone with my Comcast DVR woes

I'm not the only one who thinks the Comcast DVR with TV Guide software is buggy . I should call Comcast and ask for a refund. That will surely get them to notice the issues. Money talks...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 1:43 AM

Fixing Outlook Red "X" Problem

Every few months, Outlook 2003 will get into a situation where it will no longer render images in the preview pane or the message window. If you reply to the message, then you will see the image. Perplexed by the problem, I would take the brute force
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:08 AM

Interesting things Jimmy did see

My good buddy, Jimmy (a.k.a. JimmyG) who no longer works for MS, spends all day taking spy photos of interesting things in Dubai, U.A.E. He happend to grab a pic of a very rare Mercedes G Class, and Microsoft's CEO walking with the Crown Prince of Dubai
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Monday, April 25, 2005 11:45 PM

New VP of HR for Microsoft

Lisa Brummel was just named Vice President of Human Resources at Microsoft. Previous to this role Lisa was Corporate Vice President of the Home and Retail division, which is where the Mac Business Unit has been located for the past few years (before that,
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:10 AM

Photoshop CS2

First of all, a big shout out to Adobe for creating an awesome upgrade for Digital Camera owners. I still don't understand why you insist on installing Adobe ImageReady when I never use it and curse it when I accidentally double click a PNG and watch
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