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June 2006 - Posts

My Power Toy / Open Source Interview is now live on Port25
My video went live today. You can find it here at http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/06/29/2666.aspx Let me know your thoughts. (Pls note that i'm currently out of office attending my 10 year high school reunion in Waveland, MS - Katrina Ground Zero Read More...
Korby's Port25 Interview on CodePlex
Check out Korby's Interview on CodePlex on Port25 , a variation of a Channel 9-style website to hold discussions regarding Open Source and how it relates to Microsoft. The transcript hasn't been posted yet, so here's a (rough) breakdown of the discussion Read More...
Heading Back to Katrina Ground Zero 1 year later / BlogHer Presentation Outline
I'm headed back on this Friday for my 10 year high school reunion to be held hopefully somewhere. The school's website hasn't been updated with the latest details, so a bunch of us are just going to meet up at the Crab Fest after the Race to Rebuild . Read More...
Where do I find and hold on to a Mini Mario Mushroom?
I gave my husband a Nintendo DS Lite for his birthday, along with New Super Mario Brothers. I thought my nintendo / mario addiction ended way back in the early 90s, but i was wrong. I've beaten the game, and of course, i now have to find every Gold Star Read More...
Pave the Wave! - Rebuilding Waveland one brick at a time
Below is The Giving Circle's latest fundrasing effort. Definitely worth checking out the before / after shot of City Hall - it's the first before-Katrina shot of City Hall i've seen on the web. Also of interest is the stat that only 35 homes out of 8,000 Read More...
Windows CE Shared Source Contest
If you've read my power toy FY07 goals , you may have noticed the part about a power toy coding competition. I'm still in the very early stages of thinking about this, but fortunately there's already another team way ahead of me. Check out the Windows Read More...
Signed versions of the power toys available on MS Downloads
In case your organization requires installing only signed binaries, we've provided code-signed versions of the Power Toys on MS Downloads. If you do not require installing signed binaries, we strongly encourage you to download the power toys from CodePlex Read More...
Power Toys for Visual Studio FY07 Goals
Last week Josh posted his Developer Solutions FY07 success factors draft and asked me to write-up the FY07 goals for the power toys. I worked with everyone on the team to ensure their personal goals and ideas were reflected below, so I'm proud to present Read More...
Developer Escalation Model for Power Toy projects on CodePlex
The current CodePlex design provides an all-or-nothing access model to the source control repository. Either I give users full access to check in their code contributions or I (or another project developer) check-in the code on their behalf. Before we Read More...
Oh the pain - World Cup US v Czech Republic 0-3
There’s nothing worse than watching your team lose a soccer match than not being able to scream at the TV while they are losing. I watched the US vs Czech game on campus in the local café this morning, but to my surprise and disappointment, it was quite Read More...
Enabling Comment Moderation
First time since i started blogging 3 years ago that i've had to enable comment moderation. These sites for rape stories have been comment spamming me, and i've finally had enough. For just a little while, i'm going to enable comment moderation. I really Read More...
Waveland makes Wired Magazine
Now this was unexpected bedtime reading – talk about doing a triple-take. According to the June 06 article Fixer-Uppers , Waveland is getting a laundry mat. I asked a few folks at home, but no one has heard anything yet. So, I’ve contacted Wired for more Read More...
Return to Waveland - by NBC 6 South Florida
I know I’m not a writer. I knew it even before an English major rewrote a blog entry for me. So, I’m pleased to link to an entry about returning to Waveland from a NBC 6 South Florida Managing Editor. Thanks Barb for the plug! http://www.nbc6.net/weather/9296236/detail.html Read More...
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