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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:12 PM

Why This Blog Sucks

Reading this list on What Makes a Good Blog , serves to remind me just how much my blog sucks these days. Once upon a time, I think most of the listed attributes applied to this blog. Ah, well. I'm still hoping to get back into the swing of it. 1371
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 11:21 PM

TED: Simply John Maeda

Earlier this year ( Managing Complexity ) I blogged about John Maeda's book, The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) . Now you can watch a presentation he did around the same time at TED . The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:35 PM

Etiquette Rule #1 - Don't be a Sycophant

Today's edition of the Redmond Channel Partner newsletter links to a piece titled Minding Your Microsoft Manners , which is an interview with some companies who advise Microsoft partners on how to work with Microsoft. As I was reading it, I thought it
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Friday, June 22, 2007 11:58 AM

Coining a New Acronym

Just a passing thought that came up during a conversation with J.D. Meier today: Aggregated Human Aggregation (AHA) - The notion that we choose to collect information for our own personal knowledge base is merely an aggregation of information aggregated
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:45 AM

Steph Graduates Today!

Today is one of those special milestone dates for our family as our daughter, Stephanie, graduates from high school today. I'm quite proud that she's graduating with Honors from Redmond High School, and she'll be attending Washington State University
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Saturday, June 02, 2007 11:23 PM

TechEd 7.0

There's time to kill before boarding (redeye JetBlue flight to JFK, and then on to MCO) with decent wireless in one of the newer terminals at SeaTac, so I thought I'd post something. This is TechEd #7 for me. The early days of this blog started with posts
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:44 AM

Party with Palermo

Unless my redeye flight on Saturday night saps my energy, I plan to attend the TechEd 2007 edition of Party with Palermo on Sunday, June 3rd at the Glo Lounge. 1304
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Friday, March 02, 2007 5:35 PM

Test Post with Video from Soapbox

I have a few really cool videos to post very soon. I thought I should try a test post with a video I have sitting on my laptop that I shot last year of the Blue Angels when they were in Seattle. Video: Blue Angels in Seattle - August 2006 1258
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Sunday, January 07, 2007 11:30 PM

Five Things You Didn't Know About Me

Thanks, Martin . I need a mental break, so I'll play along. Here are five things you didn't know about me: When I was about a year old, I reached and pulled the cord of a coffee percolator from my high chair, which came crashing down on me resulting in
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Friday, November 24, 2006 8:28 PM

My Bloglebrity

After reading David Lemphers blog ( I'm Only Middle-Class! Bloglebrity That is! ), I was curious to see which list my blog is on according to Kineda . Like Frank Arrigo , Hey, I'm a B-Lister . 1190
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:37 PM

Mary Jo Foley, Journalist Blogger

In an interesting move (to go from blogging journalist to journalist blogger?), Mary Jo Foley says good-bye to Microsoft-Watch to launch a new blog ( All about Microsoft ) on ZDnet . Yep, this is my new gig. No more Microsoft-Watch for this Microsoft
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:01 PM

Wikipedia Featured Article: Rush

I just went out to Wikipedia to look something up and I see my favorite Canadian trio is Today's featured article . Rush is a Canadian progressive rock band comprising bassist , keyboardist and vocalist Geddy Lee , guitarist Alex Lifeson , and drummer
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:50 PM

Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft Bloggers: A Who's Who

Like Eileen Brown ( Blowing my own trumpet ), I was flattered to see that Mary Jo included my blog in her Foley on Microsoft column for the September issue of Redmond ( Microsoft Bloggers: A Who's Who ). Rob Caron ( http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/default.aspx
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Sunday, August 20, 2006 2:35 PM

Try Speedtest.net

I have to agree with Joel Semeniuk ( Joel From Canada: Speedtest.net ) on this one, Speedtest.net is pretty cool! Despite the simple URL, I'm posting it so I don't forget about it. 1035
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Sunday, August 06, 2006 8:51 PM

Dave Glover's Mini ITX Team Foundation Server

I've wanted to build a Mini ITX computer for a long time 'cause it looks like a lot of fun. Dave Glover blogs about the Mini ITX system he built to run Team Foundation Server. If you surf the Mini ITX site, you'll find pics of projects where people have
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