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It's In The Trees

Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:26 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
It’s In The Trees! It’s Coming! Oh goodie. Read More...
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Time for a trim

Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:51 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Oh, it’s truly a blissful morning. Three 1–hr meetings cancelled within 5 minutes. With my OPML file becoming dangerously Scoblized, it’s time for a haircut. First, save the old OPML file… Have I read the blog entries (read, not Read More...
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Great new MSPress title

Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:24 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
One of the kind folks over in MSPress just dropped off an advance copy of, “ Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for VB and C# Developers ”, and I’m having a great time reading it… I’d highly recommend at least a perusal Read More...
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MSDN Flash Letter from the Editor, Feb 21, 2005

Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 5:44 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Hey ya'll… My wife reminded me that it's time to plan our spring vacation. Little did I know there would be so much going on around the campus that I can't miss that scheduling our family vacation is becoming quite the adventure in reservations, coordinating Read More...
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Cross-posting - A new trend?

Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 1:48 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
A lot of us are now running both personal and corporate blogs. Stephen and I started discussing an idea to make this easier - server-side triggers that will post to another blog automatically. I can do this client-side right now - w.bloggar supports this, Read More...
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Hiring an Inbox Assistant

Posted Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:26 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Nothing clarifies the need for help managing the ol' inbox like being out of the country for a week. My inbox got pretty out of control last week, which drove me to search for some help. Don't get me wrong - Outlook is great, and has some interesting Read More...
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SkypeIn?

Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 8:25 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Skype really saved my hiney last week while I was in Copenhagen. It could always tunnel through whatever network I was hung off on, and the reception back to the States was pretty good. I'm absolutely sold. Now I want "SkypeIn". No, it doesn't exist yet, Read More...
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*Bizarre* issue with IRM and WindowBlinds

Posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:13 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Yeah, I do have Mac envy. So I had WindowBlinds, DesktopX, ObjectDock, all fired up and running happily away. Then I tried to open an IRM'ed (Microsoft-speak for DRM) email. Nada. Wouldn't open. I fired up OWA, and I could get the email to open. Weird. Read More...
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A real live rock star

Posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:28 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
It is so cool to see a real live rock star every now and then. I was headed to my last meeting of the evening, when a panicked Rory swung by, looking for an office to crash in. Luckily, I've got folks from my team slung out all over the green earth right Read More...
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Help w/ MCE 2k5

Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 12:01 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Now I've done it... I upgraded a prefectly working MCE 2k3 machine to MCE 2k5 (discs from MSDN Subscribers Download), and now I'm horked. Well, kinda horked... I flattened/paved the box, and did a clean install. I updated my nVidia GeForce3 drivers to Read More...
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LapLust - HP zd8K

Posted Thursday, November 04, 2004 4:37 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Updated now that I have one - see my review here . http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1706540,00.asp Check out this beast. Two tuner cards. Why anyone would call this a "laptop" is beyond me. System weight = 9.5 lbs. Could be a fantastic desktop replacement. Read More...
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Home Storage

Posted Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:43 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
This could certainly be interesting... Charlie and I used to work together on OLE technologies in the olden days. Now he's over in BobMu's Storage group, exploring some of the issues I'm running into. Namely, how to keep your hands around hundreds of Read More...
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Seeing Data - A really-should-have book

Posted Monday, September 06, 2004 10:11 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
I just received a copy of “ Seeing Data – Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET ” from the kind folks at Addison-Wesley. The simple explanation – it’s a book about how to create nice UI’s for database-driven Windows apps. Longer explanations Read More...
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Managing a small library

Posted Monday, August 30, 2004 1:36 PM by Shawn L. Morrissey
Because of my role in MSDN, I have a LOT of books in my office. I also have a LOT of folks on my team who like to borrow my books. I'm looking for a application to help me manage this process - displaying what I have, displaying who has it, etc. I'd prefer Read More...
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Read Discover Magazine this month

Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:59 AM by Shawn L. Morrissey
This month's Discover magazine focuses exclusively on Einstein - his biggest achievements, his biggest errors, and the impact of his thinking. If you're a theoretical physicist, this content will probably bore you. If you're a fan of the beauty of the Read More...
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