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My blog (such as it is) went unreachable for a while. I apologize for that. In addition, I've managed to lose some posts - about two years worth. Given the rate I post, that worked out to 8 entries. Of course, they were my best entries ever.
So back up and running, and may have a post or two this year.
It also seems as though many of the posts got reordered and re-dated. All of these issues are attributable to my horrible backup policy of "occasionally backup, never verify"
I'm not dead. I just don't publish many of my posts, becase they seem.... pointless after I write them.
Anyway, I just got back from the HDC, and it was lots of fun. The pre-party the night before, the keynotes by Roky Lhotka and Andrew Troelsen, lots of great sessions, and other cool things. I hope I can make it next year, surely, and for all you people who missed it - sign up next year as soon as it's announced.... this conference has sold out every year, and fast! Joe Olsen told me there were over 100 on the waiting list for...
Megan Davis has an article available on using sysprep to use a copied .vhd to avoid having to re-setup the base operating system time and again. I love the SysPrep tip, but I use it on a “Base” .vhd (virtual hard disk), then I create differencing hard disks against that. This way, I only have one copy of the base 1.3GB OS install on my hard drive, and I can create a new machine using only the virtual server administration console. The disk savings are pretty meager, but being able to use only the web site to create and run...
As I was installing Windows codename “Longhorn” build 4074, I noticed that my computer was displaying a message: (sorry if the wording isn't exact. It's at least very close)
“Feel free to do something else or leave. Just come back in about 10 minutes.”
I love this! After installing six different OS versions / types on virtual PC's, I could never remember if the next step would just chug along for 30 minutes, or ask for two more button clicks in about 2 minutes. If I guessed wrong one way, I was chained to my computer for no reason. Guessing wrong the other would...
So, as I suggested in a previous post, I'd like to use the VS2005 CTPs. All of 'em. However, I don't want to tear my hair out trying to figure out what version we should use because the stuff I'm working with is broken in the latest version. I also don't want to have to try working with someting for a day only to figure out that it is newly broken, especially if someone else has already suffered through it.
So, Without further ado, I give you the Visual Studio 2005 Community Tech Preview community running change log (VS2K5CTPCRCL).
What Dave Bettin and I (and hopefully...
Perhaps not ever. Chris Pratley (the “One Note owner”, Group Program Manager of Office) posted a quick bit about using OneNote to organize blogs. It's great, isn't it? I used to do the same. In fact, I thought “Hey, I'll just make a quick OneNote plug-in to post directly to .Text and I'll be sitting pretty. Perhaps I can even use Ink occasionally.”. Alas, that was not meant to be.
You see, as many of you may know, OneNote has no automation facilities. At all. The API is not public, and can't be used. So if you put your blog notes...
I was looking in my junk suspects folder this morning, and found that SpamBayes had made a terrible error -- it had classified a note telling me that I had one the “International Lotto Programs” lottery and would receive $2.5 Million US if I contacted my claims agent.
Is this too good to be true? Looks legit to me. Lets ignore the fact that I have to keep my winnings strictly confidential (shh, don't tell), and even the existence of this lotto must be hush hush. It doesn't worry me that I didn't enter it. It doesn't worry me that they have...
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I'm sure many people have heard of experts-exchange.com -- a question/answer forum site with a twist. People ask questions and assign “points” to them, based on how hard they think the question is. “Experts” (anyone) can look at the question, and answer it if they wish - if the questioner accepts the answer, the expert gets the points.
So the expert can say to himself “Self, this question is hard, and only worth 10 points. I'll answer this easy one worth 500 instead” -- the intent being that the more points a qestioner gives to the question, the more likely...
Not that you can tell from my blogroll, but I subscribe to about 240 feeds. (by “about” I mean “exactly 240 feeds”). I love having lots of news, but lately clearing out my aggregator has seemed more like a chore than a joy.
I didn't use a computer at home for two days, and I have abount 400 unread items (by “about” I mean “I think it's 400 but it may be anywhere from 73 to 931, inclusive”). Will I read all of these? not a chance. I'll probably miss something cool.
Is 240 feeds too many for a person who doesn't...
I really don't like to move my blog. Not because it confuses readers (I don't really have any). Not because it kills my google juice (I don't care -- that much), but because it constitutes work on my part (I'm lazy).
But I'm doing it anyway. I really like being a part of weblogs.asp.net, and I'll probably keep crossposting my .net development stuff there. But I want to be my own master, not part of a managed community - so here I am.
You may have seen me on my first attempt, my second blog, or the other second blog -- but now...
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