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Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:48 AM

Google maps goes legit

I got an email from a local rider yesterday, telling me that my Cycling climbs webpage was broken. I did some investigation and found that Google had rev'd their software, and I would need to make some small changes to get my site up and running again.
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:38 AM

How to update your C# language book without really trying

I posted this on Monday, but it got eaten during a server upgrade. Luckily, the lemmings post didn't. I'm very pleased to report that the third edition of my book has now shipped. As I've noted in the past (in a post I linked to in the first version of
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Monday, June 27, 2005 9:19 AM

Disappointed...

For the most part, being involved in blogs has been very positive, but every once in a while, something happens that makes you question the judgement of humanity. It's especially bad when it's somebody you know. I guess at my age, I shouldn't be surprised
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Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:37 AM

PDC 2005

I've heard that tickets are going fast to PDC 2005 , so if you're thinking about maybe going, it would be a good time to sign up. I also bring you PDC05 Road Trip - Episode 1 Which I think is pretty good, except for two things: 1) I don't understand the
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:54 PM

Remotable Windows Media Player in C#

Last August, I wrote a post talking about my efforts to create a remotable version of Windows Media Player from within C#. It's pretty easy to use COM interop to embed an instance of the windows media player in a C# application, but there's a class of
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 4:25 PM

Don't try this game...

Another in my series of time-waster games links: Poom Hint: Watch for the shadow...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 2:38 PM

Bicycle riding and nutrition

Jim posted a comment on my century ride, talking about what I ate. He totalled up what I ate during that time period, and remarked on how small it was. I agree, though I get a number that's even smaller than the one he got: Input: 330 calories in Clif
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Sunday, June 19, 2005 7:41 PM

Flying Wheels Summer Century 2005

Yesterday, I participated in my first Century of the year, a hilly 100-miler (hence the term "century") known as the Flying Wheels Summer Century (alternately known as the "Screamin Thighs Summer Century"). In last year's edition , I rode by myself and
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Friday, June 17, 2005 5:28 PM

Sigh... Sara Williams leaves Microsoft

Being a little behind in my blogs, I just today read that Sara Williams has left Microsoft . You may not have heard Sara's name before, but you certainly know about the projects she's worked on. Sara had the ability to go against the current and do things
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Friday, June 17, 2005 5:00 PM

Office Pranks on the Increase

Pocket Lint has a short article on office pranks, with a few examples. Such pranks have been a tradition at MS as long as I've been here. One guy on my corridor has a pink office as a result of such attention. Over the years, I've seen people's rooms
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:39 PM

Infoworld interview with Anders

From Dan : Microsoft's Hejlsberg touts .Net, C-Omega technologies
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:24 AM

Bicycle Climbs of Seattle, Eastside Edition

Spent a bit of time polishing up my google maps application last night, and it's ready for public showing. This is based on an idea I've had percolating away in the back of my mind for a few months now... Climbs of Seattle, Eastside Edition That takes
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:29 PM

Dangerous hacker

A tale of a dangerous hacker, attacking in real time over IRC. Note the IP address that the victim gives to the hacker.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:50 PM

Songs that go together

Every once in a while, I switch my music player app from "mix em up" mode to "album mode", so that it plays albums all the way through. This morning was one of those onces. (Note to the younger folks: you may have heard of something called a "record".
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:53 AM

Google Web Maps

I've been working on a project that could benefit from an online mapping component, so I've been playing around with Google Maps . I'm not quite ready to unveil the project yet, but I do want to talk about what it takes to do the mapping portion - especially
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Friday, June 10, 2005 3:03 PM

TechEd's on, and I'm not there

For the first time in about 4 years, there's a TechEd going on, and I'm not there to speak, answer questions and interact ( aka play Halo ) with customers. So, I guess that puts me in the same boat as many of the rest of you. This year, you can see a
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Thursday, June 09, 2005 5:43 PM

I "Lost" my VISA card...

Last weekend, my offer to pay for lunch with my VISA card was declined. A call on Monday to VISA sent me to my bank, who told me that it had been reported as lost or stolen. To which I replied "Huh?" There are two physical cards and both my wife and I
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:49 PM

PodQuiz

Last summer, I got invited by one of the C# PMs to go to a "Quiz Night" at an English pub in the Wallingford area of Seattle. I thought I would do okay, since I know a fair amount of trivia. I did poorly. Today, I came across PodQuiz , a quiz podcast,
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:29 PM

Making Wrong Code Produce Compiler Errors

Gregg writes about his response to a recent Joel article . I had the precise same response, based on some conversations I had with Jay a while back. To sum it up, the utility of creating a small class to encapsulate a specific "kind" of thing (as Joel
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:26 PM

Object Exhibitionists and Frameworkitis

Erich Gamma on Flexibility and Reuse I really like what Erich says here - I feel strongly that speculative development is the root of many evils, whether it be speculative frameworks, or speculative optimization.
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