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June 2003 - Posts

Echo vs. RSS

The whole reason I started a blog was because I was interested in the technology behind it. I wanted to try and really get it and to do that I had to write. It's been pretty fun. I have a list an arm long of features I'd like to see and those that I already Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 29, 2003 5:28 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Star Wars Galaxies

Ahh yeah, Star Wars Galaxies is out. Have to pick that one up this weekend. You know I am totally going imperial. Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 28, 2003 1:06 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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.NET Registry Classes, ChooseColorDlg and Coding4Fun

Messed around with the Registry classes in .NET this afternoon. Find it interesting that they decided to put them in Microsoft.Win32 and not under the System namespace someplace. Also played with the ChooseColorDlg method on the dialogHelper object. Wish Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 28, 2003 12:57 AM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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ActiveSetup and MSI

Hmmm... trying to find information on using ActiveSetup to install an MSI is not easy. Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 28, 2003 12:52 AM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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What I do

Caught that XBOX thing on Discovery Channel on Friday night. Pretty cool. I was hoping to see some of my XBOX homies, but no. I have always thought that working in games would get old after a while, but I have to admit after seeing the show I was thinking Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2003 10:18 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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On community and synchronicity...

A bizarre thing about the technology of blogging, at least to me, is the emergence of community and the surprise of synchronicity. You can be at home on the couch after midnight, watching a little tv, chatting with someone about the Messenger 6 preview Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:39 AM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Work uses for blogging

I decided I would try to use my internal blog to keep track of certain docs I use from time to time to set up Exchange server or manipulate my development environment. They'd once been e-mails, then later modified and dumped onto a share. Since I am experimenting Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:18 AM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments

MSNBot

Cool, MSN Search has their own web crawler now. Building a spider was one of the first projects I worked on at Microsoft back in 1996. Mine was a "web monkey", which basically meant that its link traversal was stochastic. I remember setting it free on Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:48 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Scoble's on Slashdot

Wow. Surprised to see Scoble on Slashdot just a minute ago. Went to a Microsoft Community meeting today on the subject of blogging. Scoble , Goza and a few others were on a panel answering questions. I have to say that it is a really odd experience to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:24 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Linus leaves Transmeta to work full-time on kernel

Details here . I always thought it was weird that he had a day job. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:22 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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English to 12 Year Old AOL User Translator

http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:48 AM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Day in the Life

Hit the road at about nine. No slugs in the drive-way. Burn down Avondale in the bimmer. Pass a deer on side of the road. Arrive at work around 9:30. Sign into IM and check e-mail. No new e-mail because I check it all the time, even on weekends like everyone Read More...
Posted Monday, June 16, 2003 6:07 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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The Cambrian Period of Communications

It occurs to me that we are living in a Cambrian period of communications. Communication itself has a very long history - as long as ours to be sure. In the beginning, we communicated with sound and gesture. Then we learned to communicate via symbols Read More...
Posted Friday, June 13, 2003 5:08 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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Two Projects

Here are two projects I would love to build if I ever found time to do it. I want a news aggregator for PocketPC written to use the compact framework. No doubt a product like this exists somewhere and if you're reading this, feel free to drop the URL Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:38 AM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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a little of this, a little of that

I feel like I am .NET evangelist lately. I have brothers-in-law asking me about it, my intern is full of questions about it, even some of the non-techno people at MS are asking how hard it is to jump on board. I am not an evangelist strictly speaking. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2003 4:43 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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