August 2003 - Posts

Fry's eXPerience
31 August 03 12:03 AM | RWlodarczyk | 8 Comments   
I apologize for the non-.NET post, but it's about Fry's... a geek's heaven. Today I decided to see what all this fuss about Fry's is. I've heard and read many things about Fry's Electronics stores from countless people. To me, being a displaced New Yorker Read More...
Ever wonder why you can't...
24 August 03 12:57 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
click on the map to change your time zone in Windows anymore... Raymond Chen has a great explaination here . Read More...
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CF.NET Development vs. Java/Symbian/etc...
24 August 03 12:17 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
Brian Jepson points to a great link talking about how much development for the Compact .NET Framework rocks (compared to developing Java solutions for mobile platforms). I had this discussion (CF vs Java Mobile development) with a die-hard Java developer Read More...
Account Permissions...
20 August 03 09:14 PM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
...take a while for them to propogate throughout Active Directory, especially quite a large one at that. I've been reading various docs theswe past few days and had a few meetings with my manager and teammates. Definitely cool stuff :) Will write more Read More...
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The famous disclaimer
18 August 03 09:51 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
I should of posted this first probably... Need to do my rendition of the standard disclaimer. This is something the Surgeon General of the US recommends to put on all blogs that are written by employees of any corporation... oh wait, since when is blogging Read More...
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First Day @ Microsoft
18 August 03 09:42 PM | RWlodarczyk | 5 Comments   
Ok, as promised, I said that I'd tell the story of my first day at Microsoft... Please bear with some of the parts of this, I'll just go through my entire day from start to end. Last night was the first night that I spent at my apartment that I leased Read More...
.NET 18K Checkup
17 August 03 09:23 PM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
Software Development Times has a check-up article about .NET . Read More...
Evening Before the Big Start Date
17 August 03 08:55 PM | RWlodarczyk | 21 Comments   
Tomorrow I begin work at Microsoft. This is the long awaited day since my acceptance back in July. This past week has been really crazy. Amidst all the craziness of setting up my new apartment, and many trips to Costco Home for furniture and stuff, I Read More...
Jedi Kid: Revisited
11 August 03 09:17 PM | RWlodarczyk | 5 Comments   
Ok, a while ago Steve posted a link to the Jedi Kid. Tonight over dinner one of my friends, Chris, pointed out this site . It has 56 clones of the original movie. Plus, there's a petition that will put the kid in Episode III (and supposedly George Lucas Read More...
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iPod Alternatives
11 August 03 02:15 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
I must admit, Apple got one thing right... the iPods. It's an elegant piece of technology, albiet a very simple one. However, apparently now there are other manufacturers who are coming out with similar looking devices. Michael W talks about some of these Read More...
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MSN 6 Error!!!
11 August 03 12:26 PM | RWlodarczyk | 5 Comments   
Ok, I just went to add Erik Porter to my MSN Messenger list and I got this error: What's up with this?!?!? Granted I now have 150 contacts in MSN Messenger (after adding Erik), but still, why limit to that many? BTW, Erik was still added successfully Read More...
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More on the Novel takeover of Ximian
11 August 03 12:17 AM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
CNET's Robert Lemos recently spoke to Chris Stone (Novell's vice chairman) about the takeover... When asked about how the takeover will affect the Mono Project, Chris had this to offer: “Mono is great. I like the idea very much of being able to run .Net Read More...
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Newsgroups & RSS --> why not?
10 August 03 11:22 PM | RWlodarczyk | 11 Comments   
Chris Sells made an excellent point last week when he said he doesn't read anything that doesn't have an RSS feed. You know, I was thinking just last night that I don't get around to reading the microsoft.* newsgroups as much as I want to recently. I Read More...
First SmartPhone 2003 Devices Announced
09 August 03 03:15 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
Oh, this is sweet!!! SmartPhone Thoughts talks about this company Dopod who announced the first SmartPhone 2003 device. Some good stuff with this phone. (Unfortunately I can not read Chinese, so the Dopod website makes no sense to me.) SmartPhone Thoughts Read More...
Night Out On The Town
09 August 03 03:07 PM | RWlodarczyk | 4 Comments   
Man, last night was a blast. Went out drinking with Stephen Forte and a few of his friends. Zum Schneider has this great bier... “das Ratler” (or something like that). Had a great time last night! Sucked getting into the city late because some guy who Read More...
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Left Computerless & Carless
08 August 03 02:31 PM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
Ok, well, as of an hour ago, I have been left carless. Completely reliant on other people to drive me places. Plus, I've been computerless since Monday (well, except for my laptop which will have to last me for another two weeks). I head out on Tuesday Read More...
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Linux Reconsidered
07 August 03 11:12 AM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
Alan writes a rebuttal to an earlier article posted on CNET about “ Reconsidering Linux ”... I think he hits the nail dead on. “... Linux is innovative? I think not. Since when is a legal DVD player big news on a platform? That's sad that it even gets Read More...
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Blogger Meet Up Next Wednesday
06 August 03 10:39 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
Scoble writes: "Sam Gentile is gonna be in Redmond next week. He wants to get a weblogger dinner together. So, how about next Wednesday evening. 7 p.m.? At the Crossroads? If anyone needs a ride from campus, let me know." I'll already be in Redmond next Read More...
Featured in the latest Null Pointer
04 August 03 03:13 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
My friend Brian has an amazing talent for drawing. He has this cartoon he does, Null Pointer . In his most recent “issue” he featured me in there. Sorry Brian about the “battle damage”. I really didn't mean to hit you with that spikey ball... Read More...
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On Novell & Mono
04 August 03 02:27 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
Richard Tallent writes some thoughts about today's aquisition of Ximian by Novell, and specifically how that may or may not affect the Mono Project. I just wanted to express some of my feelings about what this means. Personally, I think that it's a good Read More...
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Novell Snaps Up Ximian
04 August 03 11:45 AM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
Novell acquires Ximian ... wonder how this will affect the Mono Project . Read More...
Spammers Suck
04 August 03 10:18 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
An open letter to all the spammers out there: SPAMMERS SUCK!!! To explain myself, apparently some spammers are using one of my email accounts in the and fields. So, I'm getting some bounce-backs of emails. Damn it. Read More...
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SMTP woes
04 August 03 10:12 AM | RWlodarczyk | 6 Comments   
Sometime last week I was complaining to Eric J. about how much the SMTP protocol sucks. My primary reason for this was because I was beginning to write an Email Address Validator Control for ASP.NET. Ok, there are a few out there, but I just figured that Read More...
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AOL's in the Blog Game
03 August 03 11:14 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
Looks like AOL 9 will have blogging support . Let's see how badly AOL f'd this one up. Read More...
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Some more cool days
03 August 03 01:22 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
These past few days have been quite good indeed. Friday I was invited over to dinner to Diana & Jim's for dinner. Mmmm... Lobster Ravioli. Thank you! All day yesterday, CJ had a party at his home. As Jon and Mike describe in their blogs, the party Read More...
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Microsoft, MSR, Academia, & Research (oh my!)
01 August 03 12:12 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
This past week Microsoft held its annual Faculty Summit ( ref. 1 , ref. 2 , ref. 3 ). This is a conference where faculty members from the top research universities within the United States are invited to attend. (Actually, this year there were many invitiations Read More...
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