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November 2003 - Posts

Connected DVD Player

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:34 AM by lauraj
Oh, and if you were wondering, "Hey, where'd the music go?", No worries, I'm just listening to my playlists on our new Gateway connected DVD player .  The software has a MusicMatch plug-in, so I got ALL my playlists and music when I scanned -- what Read More...
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Sharepoint love

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:25 AM by lauraj
Tonight I updated our MSDN Intranet and I was reminded, once again, how much I love Sharepoint/WSS.  Oh, don't get me wrong, there are things that I would absolutely change if I could... like not being able to switch an events list/calendar to begin Read More...
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Fabulous concert, and venue!

Posted Monday, November 17, 2003 3:43 AM by lauraj
What an amazing concert.  First of all, the new auditorium is beautiful, and very sound-a-licious.  The way they've arranged the seating is really wonderful -- the boxes look like they're floating in air (like at Benaroya).  Our seats were Read More...
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Songwriters tonight

Posted Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:40 PM by lauraj
Tonight we're going to the new McCaw Hall at Seattle Center to see what's being billed as the Songwriter's tour .  It's an acoustic evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin and Dar Williams, together on stage.  I heard Read More...
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Developer Perspective: Newsgroups or forums?

Posted Saturday, November 15, 2003 4:24 PM by lauraj
Yesterday I was talking with Betsy and Tina about Newsgroups vs. Forums, and whether developers prefer one over the other. For me, it's kind of a mixed bag.  In general, I like the rich client experience that I see in forums, but I also like the Read More...
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Outlook/Newsgator Test Post

Posted Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:42 PM by lauraj
This is a test of posting from Outlook via the Newsgator plug-in. [Now Playing: Indigo Girls - Least Complicated (Live) (05:15)] Updated to add category and change title. Read More...
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It was a good dream, I think...

Posted Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:51 PM by lauraj
Okay, apparently I dreamt that there was a BlogX WMP plugin and that I installed it. As to what really happened, well, I'm not exactly sure.  Perhaps I've entered the twilight zone .  I recently started a personal blog, and now I'm feeling a Read More...
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MSDN Bloggers resurface

Posted Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:23 PM by lauraj
Gosh, I look away for a couple days, and *poof* Tommy and Andy , two of my favorite MSDN bloggers resurface. Yippee! Read More...
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Music on the laptop

Posted Friday, November 14, 2003 11:59 PM by lauraj
I got an iPod early this year, and spent a bunch of time ripping most of our CD's, but since then, all of my music has been on my home desktop machine.  At work I just plug my iPod into some rockin' portable speakers.  Since I've been at MSDN, Read More...
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My traveling favorites

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 11:56 PM by lauraj
For a while now, I've been using a Blogger page as a traveling favorites and personal knowledge management system -- it's very handy.  I keep it as my browser homepage on my home and work computers, and on someone else's computer, it's only a URL Read More...
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Pictures from PDC

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 6:45 PM by lauraj
The pictures on my moblog are all categorized now, so if you want to see only the pictures from PDC, here they are . Read More...
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Updated categories = updated feed

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 6:43 PM by lauraj
My apologies to anyone who is subscribed to the RSS feed for my moblog... I went through and categorized pics today, and it marked them all as new and included them in the feed again.  Read More...
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Warning: Rory Blyth has spewage potential

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:33 PM by lauraj
Heh.  Don Box linked to some really funny posts of Rory Blyth's.  I'd never read Rory, but when I read the posts that Don linked to, I just had to subscribe to his feed.  It was late, so I didn't explore his site further.  Then, this Read More...
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Mt. Rainier -- still time to comment

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:21 PM by lauraj
Mt. Rainier currently has one service guiding folks up the mountain on summit attempts.  The NPS is currently in the process of soliciting comments on their new Commercial Services Plan.  I think that the "preferred alternative" number Read More...
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"Beautiful, Fresh, Exciting, Spastic, Cool, Noisy, Nutty, Brilliant, Loud, Insightful, Big!"

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:36 PM by lauraj
H ey, check this out, Tom Peters, in a free web seminar .  Who knew? I find stuff like this and think to myself "My company is doing some pretty cool things." Cool things in addition, of course, to Whidbey, and Longhorn, and Indigo, and Read More...
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MSDN Developer Centers

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 1:07 AM by lauraj
You know we have Dev Centers , right?   Places where our Content Strategists ( Kent , Duncan , Brian , Matt , Steve, Chris , Frank and Shawn ) pick out the best resources for your technology, including technical articles, downloads, community links, Read More...
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Eric Sink: The Business of Software -- MSDN

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 1:04 AM by lauraj
There’s also a new column in the Visual Studio Dev Center called The Business of Software .   It’s by Eric Sink, and it looks like it’s going to be a good column.   I like his writing style, and got a big kick out of this . Read More...
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FoodMovers: Building Distributed Applications using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:14 AM by lauraj
Because I subscribe to the MSDN Just Published RSS feed , I noticed that we've released a 6 part technical article/project by Brian Travis. "Through this project of six sections, you will learn how Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect Read More...
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Something missing, can't Go

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 2:47 AM by lauraj
For reasons that escape me, the error message "Something missing, can't Go" popped into my mind this evening. Probably something about nostalgia and old age. In any case, though, let's see just how small the world really is... there's a prize Read More...
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My Matrix Confession

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 2:22 AM by lauraj
Yesterday, Katherine said she was going to see The Matrix with Shawn on Friday.  I didn't comment, but thought to myself "Huh, is that still in theaters?"  It seemed like a while ago that I heard about the opening.  Then, early this morning, Read More...
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Project 2003 discovery

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 1:55 AM by lauraj
Today I discovered that when adding resources in Project 2003, one of the options is to select them from the Outlook address book.  And if you specify a distribution list, it prompts to warn you that it's going to convert the list to individual names.  Read More...
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Google Debuts Desktop Search

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 1:52 AM by lauraj
"On Thursday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company debuted the Google Deskbar. The downloadable software for users of Microsoft's Windows operating system puts a Google search box in the desktop taskbar. Using the free tool, people can search Read More...
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Mutant HDL

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 1:42 AM by lauraj
Intravenous doses of a synthetic component of good cholesterol reduced artery disease in just six weeks in a small study with startlingly big implications for treating the nation's No. 1 killer. ( MSNBC ) I heard about this story on NPR.  The discovery Read More...
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Study suggests why males are needed

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 1:31 AM by lauraj
Heh.  This headline made me laugh . Read More...
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Women on Top at Medical School

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 1:28 AM by lauraj
After a 6-year decline, the number of applicants to US medical schools is on the rise. The main reason for the increase was an almost 7% rise in the number of women applicants over last year. Women made up the majority of medical school applicants for Read More...
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XML is so picky!

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 12:59 AM by lauraj
The reason my blogroll wasn't hot is because I forgot that XML is so picky.  Here's what happened.  I have been using Newsgator, and since it exports in OPML I decided to export, do a little massaging, and then use it in BlogX.  Cut and Read More...
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Susan Warren is blogging!

Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 12:48 AM by lauraj
I was so happy to see on Julia's weblog that Susan Warren has a blog now.  I really enjoyed talking with Susan at PDC, and look forward to reading her as she blogs. Read More...
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A blogger with a quality frame of mind

Posted Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:12 AM by lauraj
Tonight, when I was cruising my new friend Jeff Julian's site , I ran across this blog by Siva. It's all about Software Quality -- a topic that I haven't seen many folks blogging about (although it could the that I just surf in the wrong circles ;-) so Read More...
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Oops, my blogroll isn't hot

Posted Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:37 AM by lauraj
Somehow I managed to make my lovely new blogroll useless since none of the items are linked. And I don't have access to the files on the server right now. Dang. Worse, though, is that I spelled Shawn Morrissey's name wrong. Wanna know how I know? Because Read More...
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Restore default Treo 600 ringtones

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:15 AM by lauraj
In this thread in a TreoCentral forum, Llynx says: Yikes! I tried hot-syncing my old midi ringtones from my Treo 300 to my 600 and when I went to check I had NO ringtones! Zero!! So I went to the "delete" function and then had a soft reset ... So ... Read More...
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Nuisance barking

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:41 AM by lauraj
We have a nuisance barker.  Zara. She drives us Crazy.  In our frustration, we had considered those shock collars, but they seem so inhumane. A couple weekends ago, a woman at the local pet store recommended a collar that sprayed Read More...
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Chris Anderson on MSDN!

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:21 AM by lauraj
Hey, according to Chris Anderson, he's going to be co-writing a column on MSDN! In addition to this exciting news, his post cracked me up for two reasons.  First because it's titled "Working on work" but categorized "Personal Life" and second because Read More...
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