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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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
Another Microsoftee
31 July 03 11:34 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
Looks like there will be another Microsoftee coming soon too... Alex Lowe has just joined the ASP.net team Developer Evangelism team at Microsoft. Congratulations to him!! :) Read More...
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Awesome Dinner...
31 July 03 11:31 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
Tonite, one of my friends, Gary and his lovely wife Galia, invited my mom and myself over to their apartment for a really great dinner. I must admit, the food was great. And of course just their generousity for inviting my mom and myself over was awesome Read More...
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