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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:12 AM

Goodbye, MSDN. I'm moving to http://RobMensching.com/blog.

I started blogging three years ago when the MSDN blog site was still hosted on gotdotnet . Back then there were fifty or so Microsoft bloggers and people giggled when you said the word "blog". Now there are so many Microsoft blogs that nobody bothers
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Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:12 AM

It all begins in November...

As noted previously , there are some major changes going on in my life right now. This is the third and final change. There are a few people out there that read my blog to hear my thoughts on software installation topics . There are others who read my
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:41 PM

Joining Marketplace.

As noted previously , there are some major changes going on in my life right now. Derek leaving Microsoft and the affect that would have on the WiX toolset was the first one I made public. This is the second. It was two years ago this month that I moved
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:55 AM

Conflicts of Interest?

Nicholas Carr has a great blog entry about conflicts of interest in blogging . It got me thinking about a silent policy I've always had for myself when blogging here. I don't blog about the many vendors in the MSI creation space except the ones that I
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Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:18 PM

Nothing.

Thus far, today I have done absolutely nothing. Sure, I cleaned off the kitchen table, put away some dishes and folded some clothes. But I didn't really do anything. I spent a few hours playing through a few demo disks DJ lent me for the new Xbox 360
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:33 PM

Thursday Night "Deployment Dinner Discussion" with Charlie Poole.

Tonight I traveled to Anthony's Beach Cafe in Edmonds, WA to have dinner with Charlie Poole . Charlie is the active maintainer of the NUnit project . He contacted me (via my blog, IIRC) and we set up tonight's meeting. I expected he wanted to meet because
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 8:00 AM

The Windows Live Writer team rocks.

I installed Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta a while ago to test a project I was working on. I didn't actually boot the application or anything, just installed it. I think this proves how much of a setup geek I am. <smile/> Well, as you can see in my
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Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:14 AM

It isn't whether you win or lose, as long as you're growing.

Robert sent me a couple quotes from Ichiro in this morning’s Seattle Times . I thought they were quite appropriate to my “Here & Now” so I thought I’d just drop the quote in: "I think it's true for any player that they don't want to be on a losing
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:10 PM

Thursday Night "Deployment Dinner Discussions" with Carolyn Napier.

Imagine a blog entry where Jenny and I host Carolyn Napier and Steve Lesser at another Thursday Night "Deployment Dinner Discussion".
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Friday, September 15, 2006 10:13 PM

Bittersweet change, Derek Cicerone leaves WiX.

Imagine a blog entry where I talk about the many contributions Derek Cicerone made to the WiX community.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:13 AM

When it changes it pours.

Imagine a blog entry where I wax shortly on the topic of change.
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Friday, August 25, 2006 7:30 PM

Thursday Night "Deployment Dinner Discussions" with Rob Mensching.

Imagine a blog entry where I introduct Deployment Dinner Discussions at my house.
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:50 AM

This then this then this. What am I still doing here?

Imagine a blog entry where I blink and take another look around.
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Sunday, August 06, 2006 5:40 PM

Blogging from the outside.

Imagine a blog entry where I write it all outside.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:46 AM

Wow, Microsoft Acquires Wininternals.

Imagine a blog entry where I note that Microsoft acquires Wininternals.
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