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August 2003 - Posts

PowerPoint is NOT Evil

Posted Friday, August 29, 2003 7:51 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
I really hope the goal of Edward Tufte’s article in the latest Wired was to whack a beehive, since he certainly succeeded there. The same mentality is behind the recent lawsuits blaming McDonald’s for obesity. I’m waiting for next month’s guest commentary Read More...
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Fry's Electronics in Renton - Now Open For Business

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:08 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Wahoo! Good supply and crappy customer service! There’s no In ‘n Out, and there is Fatburger and Dick’s… On the way to work this morning, I stopped in at the Renton Fry's, which opened last night. It's huge. It's clean. It has a sandwich shop in the center Read More...
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Targeting the wireless

Posted Monday, August 25, 2003 1:48 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Wow – I guess the Redmond area would be considered rather “feature rich” for this kind of crap… From a friend who wants to remain anonymous: A friend in Belmont (MA) was among a group of neighbors whose laptops were stolen from their homes. It seems the Read More...
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<%YourDiety%>'s gift to Multimon

Posted Monday, August 25, 2003 10:38 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
I just upgraded to a Compaq Evo N800c. I likey! Like Kent and Duncan , while at my desk, I’m running it in dual monitor mode. Duncan just sent me a link that anyone who’s running dual monitors (or more) should be using – UltraMon , by Realtime Software. Read More...
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RSS. Comments. Please discuss.

Posted Friday, August 22, 2003 12:41 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
A bunch of people sent me mail, basically asking, “WTF?!” So, what do I want? I want an RSS feeder to also check if an engine has implemented the comments API, and if it has, grab those comments and associate them visually with the original post. It would Read More...
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Jim McGee. A shift from managing knowledge to coaching knowledge workers. ...

Posted Friday, August 22, 2003 11:05 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
I know have something meaty to ponder while riding my riding mower this weekend. Coolio. Jim McGee . A shift from managing knowledge to coaching knowledge workers. Excellent. The fatal flaw in thinking in terms of knowledge management is in adopting the Read More...
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New Managed Code .NET Show is live

Posted Friday, August 22, 2003 9:42 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Oh, you know this is going to be good… A new episode featuring Brad Abrams, Anders Hejlsberg, Nick Hodapp, and Chris Sells is live: http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/ Managed Code Perhaps one of the most important aspects of developing an application Read More...
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Effects of the blackout

Posted Friday, August 22, 2003 9:28 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Kent found a really cool pic of “The Blackout”… http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16273 Read More...
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RSS. Comments. Please discuss.

Posted Friday, August 22, 2003 6:39 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
No wonder we don’t listen any better that we currently do. We get to be lazy and listen to one voice at a time, rather that a cacophony of voices. I was thinking about which I like better for following RSS feeds – NewsGator or FeedDemon . I like that Read More...
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Mobility Embedded Developer Center

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:20 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
For those with mobile devices, check this out – we finally render nicely on WAP devices… http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobiledefault.aspx MSDN just posted a new Developer Center . Visit the new one-stop shop for all mobile and embedded information, including Read More...
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New "Coding 4 Fun" article is up...

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:12 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
The first column Duncan wrote in pieces on his blog is now up on msdn. As always, good stuff. Make sure you follow the link the Henry’s site – Henry’s so cool, it’s scary…B-) Should be up and live already so here is the URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/using/columns/code4fun/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun08222003.asp Read More...
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How much is your brain worth?

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:50 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
I lost my hard drive a couple weeks ago now. I just received an estimate from OnTrack , the folks who do our * serious * data recovery – a little north of $2K. Is it worth it? I don’t know – I’m going to go for a run with some folks from my team, and Read More...
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Buffering .NET Console Output

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:48 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
I am *SO* happy to have Chris working for the good guys…B-) The one where I can't believe that .NET Console output isn't buffered by default, then come to appreciate why they did it that way and finally figure out how to turn buffering back on at will, Read More...
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Posting to your Weblog from NewsGator

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:44 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
If you weren’t aware of this feature, it rocks. NewsGator includes the capability to post directly to most weblog systems right from Outlook. To do this, you will need to download a plug-in from the NewsGator plug-ins directory . Numerous plug-ins are Read More...
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Wedding Bride from Hell

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:39 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Dear <%wedding_attendee%>, Thank you for attending our wedding. Rather than send gifts, I am asking folks to send money (for bail)… This story reminds me of my wedding night... NOT. If Adrienne Samen ever forgets the details of her wedding reception, Read More...
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Career Calculus

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:12 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
The .NET Redneck just friggin’ rocks. Thanks Eric. A couple weeks ago there was a flurry of blogging over the price of Microsoft's upcoming Professional Developers Conference ( PDC ). In the midst of this controversy, Doug Reilly chimed in with a post Read More...
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PDC Birds of a Feather Sessions

Posted Monday, August 18, 2003 6:26 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
If Brad’s posting about the BOFs, you know we’re in for some good stuff…B-) I thought I’d put my own plug in for PDC BOF sessions . The PDC planning group here is very excited about having a community lead time at the event. We are looking forward to Read More...
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BOF Sessions at the PDC

Posted Monday, August 18, 2003 6:18 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Woo-Hoo! Ya’ll own the BOF sessions this year. If you have an idea for a good BOF session, click here . Read More...
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Welcome Back

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:43 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
A huge thanks to Scott and Kent for making my return to weblogs.asp.net so easy. Hey - where did the dotnotweblogs address go? Now, where was I? Oh yeah, what the heck is a backup, and how do you make one? B-) Read More...
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