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Friday, April 11, 2008 9:25 PM

Slow blogging season

I apologize for the very light blogging of late. I've been busy working on the project for my latest class at the University of Illinois. CS classes really take a lot of time at the end of the semester. At the beginning you just have reading, homework,
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:59 AM

Ten Years Later...

It was ten years ago today that I joined Microsoft as a full time employee. When I started we were just finishing Windows 98. Microsoft was around 25,000 employees. My first job was testing DVD playback in the operating system. Since then I've reported
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Monday, March 10, 2008 7:57 PM

Four Years and 300 Posts Later

It was four years and approximately 300 posts ago that I began this blog with a simple hello world . Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to followed me during that time. It has been an honor to write for you and to receive feedback on my ideas.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007 2:30 PM

Let It Snow!

Here's my white Christmas:
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007 9:31 AM

Merry Christmas To All!

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you are all able to spend some good time with family and friends. I'm off to see what Santa brought me. [2 hours later] We finished opening presents and it started to snow! Not a little snow, but a lot of snow. Large flakes
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:33 AM

Happy Halloween!

It is once again Halloween which, here in the U.S. means a time when all the kids dress up in costumes and go door-to-door "trick or treating" (which means begging for Candy). I like this holiday. It's fun to see everyone dressed up at the door. Unfortunately
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:05 AM

Saying Goodbye to Illinois

I'm about to head out from my trip to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ( UIUC ). I've enjoyed my trip. I was able to interview 23 bright students. The quality was very high. The school should be proud. I also had a chance to see the places
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:11 AM

Enjoying Pandora

I've really been enjoying listening to Pandora lately. It is a net radio service that builds a "station" for you based on your tastes. You begin by entering a song or an artist you like. It then plays music it thinks is similar. You are allowed to give
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:25 AM

Visiting UIUC

If you follow this blog, you'll know that I'm currently working on my Masters in Computer Science through the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I really like the program I'm in. Most classes are real. There are real people meeting on campus 3
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Monday, August 27, 2007 5:28 PM

Penny Arcade Expo

This past weekend Seattle hosted what is reportedly the biggest video games expo in the United States. That honor used to belong to E3 but they changed their format this year. Now that title belongs to Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). Unlike E3, PAX is aimed
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:10 PM

My Team Got Me

It's a tradition at Microsoft that when someone leaves for a while, their office is vandalized in one way or another. Sometimes it is something big like moving the office into the hall or covering it in post-it notes. Other times, it's something more
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:38 PM

Summer Vacation Here I Come

I just turned in the project for my summer class. If you want to take a look, you can find it here . That means I'm now on summer vacation. I liked the class but it's nice to have it over with. Now I can get to some of that reading I didn't have time
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:45 AM

More Resources For Teaching Children To Program

As I've stated before , I have a young son who I have been trying on and off to teach to program. I still owe you a post talking about what I've found does and does not work. In the mean time, I ran across this article which give several good resources.
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Monday, July 16, 2007 9:27 PM

Bye Bye Sunrocket

Sunrocket was my phone company...until today. This evening I looked at TechMeme to see what was new in the world only to run into this post at GigaOm. Check the web site. Everything looks fine. Check the phone. No dial tone. Bummer. Look around a little
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Monday, July 16, 2007 8:12 AM

Back From the Cruise

My family and I went on an Alaskan cruise last week. It was my first cruise. I liked it. There is a lot you can do on a ship during a cruise. There is a casino, Broadway-style shows, art auctions, night clubs, various games (like trivia), and much more.
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