John Lawrence (MSFT)

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:31 AM

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The recent earthquake tragedies must have been on my wife's mind heavily, because last night she woke me up at 4am because she was convinced she had been woken up by a tremor which had lasted for several minutes. I spent the next 15 minutes in a semi-comatose

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:18 PM

All the cool kids are talking about AJAX

It seems that everywhere I look today people are talking about AJAX . For a variety of reasons, web apps with highly responsive UIs have been of interest to a few of us on the Team Foundation team on and off for a while. When Google Suggest came out we

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:54 AM

Very cute kid's blog template - virtual fridge

[definitely not Team System related] Some our best friends, Mike and Hester Higton , have just switched their daughter’s blog from Movable Type to Wordpress (largely to help manage the comment spam they were getting) and they’ve taken the opportunity

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Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:28 PM

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trailer looking good...

As a British geek, it's inevitable that I grew up loving Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy Series. One of the many other British geeks just sent around a link to a new Hitchhiker's Movie Trailer I must admit I was ready for a Hollywood butchering,

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Tuesday, February 03, 2004 9:52 AM

Michael Creasy has a blog

Until recently Michael was one of the most prolific testers that the Speech group ever had (and consequently the bane of developers' lives...). Unfortunately for us, he recently moved to the Media Center group where he is playing with lots of cool toys.

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Friday, October 17, 2003 6:03 PM

You snooze, you lose!

A very amusing message went on our newsgroup today. One of our Test Leads, Tom Faber, had been trying to help a customer work through some issues with the SpeechControls. Unfortunately Tom didn't follow up on one of the customer's replies, and so this

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Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:56 PM

Position filled!

Finally I've managed to fill the open position on my team - I'm extremely happy :-) It seems like it has been open for a ridiculously long time, and I had been starting to despair. If positions stay open for too long, there is always a risk that the open

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Friday, August 22, 2003 11:18 PM