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Airjelly

November 6, 2008

I want one of these to play with!

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Windows 7 Shake to hide

November 4, 2008

I tried this out in build 6801, but it doesn’t work there yet. I can’t wait to get the new features.

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Azure Services Platform

November 4, 2008

Back home from PDC and I’m still processing all the information that I put in to my brain.  There was a lot to take in and I think it will be a while before we start to see the effects of all this new technology that was introduced.  Congratulations to Microsoft for continuing to innovate [...]

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PDC day 2 keynote – updated

October 28, 2008

update: okay that was a bust. As soon as I started blogging the WiFi dropped out and I lost connectivity. So I switched to my phone and started using the WordPress for iPhone app. Then the cell network started getting throttled as everyone else started doing the same and then it died. Sigh. All this [...]

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Silverlight 2 Release soon

October 13, 2008

Silverlight 2 will be released within the next 24 hours.  I’ve been working with it since day one earlier last year and I’m very excited for the Silverlight team to have reached this major milestone.  Congratulations! Highlights of new Silverlight 2 features include the following: .NET Framework support with a rich base class library. This [...]

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Sprout

October 13, 2008

I’ve been playing around with Sprout today. It’s a web based Flash widget building tool.   My favorite part about it is the Components service.  This little tool bar provides loads of easy to build functionality in to my widget.  The widget above was build using the RSS reader.  All I did was supply the feed [...]

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I heart my new cup

October 9, 2008

I heart my new cup Originally uploaded by futileboy This is my new favorite travel mug. It’s a double wall ceramic cup with a silicone lid. Most important of all it’s dishwasher and microwave safe. I’ve always liked the New York coffee mug that Graham made, but I really always wanted a lid.

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Rick & Noah talk economics

October 8, 2008

Great blog post on the Barbarian Group site titled Baudrillard, Economics and the  Death of Reality.  I feel like I’ve become a lot smarter about our country’s economic systems in the last few weeks.  Be sure to read Rick’s comments as well.  If you haven’t heard it yet be sure to check out the two [...]

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dark detecting circuit for your jack-o’-lantern

October 8, 2008

I found this nice and simple little LED project for your jack o’ lantern over at the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories blog. There design uses a darkness detecting LED circuit to automatically light up the eyes at night I think this is just the sort of weekend project I’ve been looking for.  I might try [...]

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customized chumby

October 6, 2008

DSC09695.JPG Originally uploaded by Sara Antoinette Martin I like the idea of replacing the fabric to create a custom chumby look. Check out the other pics in her flickr pool of the custom job.

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