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June 2008 - Posts

BillG Memories, part 1…

I’m going to be out of town tomorrow, so I won’t be able to post this on Bill’s last full time day at Microsoft, but I wanted to post a couple of anecdotes about Bill. This one actually comes from Valorie, it was her first interaction with Bill…   Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

Hold on, Oliver the Wonder Pony and his rider are ranked 14th in the Nation?

Wow. In the past, I've written about Oliver, the pony we bought a couple of years ago for my daughter to ride. Sharron's long given up riding, but fortunately a young woman in our barn, Margaret Odom decided to take a flier on Oliver and the two have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:48 PM by LarryOsterman | 2 Comments
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Who's on that banner?

For whatever reason, various groups at Microsoft love to run banners and posters that promote their products on campus. I'm not sure why they do it, I'd think that their money would be better spent advertising to (say) customers as opposed to advertising Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:40 AM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
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Off to the 5th Avenue Awards tonight!

Tonight we're going to be attending the 2008 5th Avenue High School Musical Awards show. It's the local equivalent of the Tony awards for High School musical productions. This year Daniel won an Honorable Mention for his performance as Brownlow in Overlake's Read More...
Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 9:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments
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News Flash: Spaces are legal characters in both filenames and passwords!

I recently figured out a problem that I've been having with one of our internal tools. The tool is used to automatically deploy our daily builds (extremely handy when you're doing that every other day to several test machines). As a part of the tool, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:34 PM by LarryOsterman | 33 Comments
 
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