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Friday, October 20, 2006 8:44 PM

Switching... to Vista

About a year ago, I got nutty and bought a beautiful 15" PowerBook G4. I had been running OS X in an emulator, I was teaching myself Rails and, to a certain extent, I was bored of XP. I gave in to some strange, the other--I committed to switching my
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 2:22 AM

Origami = UMPC

I've been reading a fair bit of the Origami/UMPC hype. Alexandria actually looks more intriguing to me. Intel looks to be staging a partner site to build an enthusiast community around the device. It's running off of Community Server (hide that fav.ico
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Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:42 AM

File, Print Fedex Kinkos

A couple of months ago, I carped about Avis' SmartClient being neat but largely impractical. In the interest of equal time, File, Print Fedex Kinkos' is something I find useful. The computers are so slow at the local Kinkos, printing a color tabloid
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Monday, April 11, 2005 1:47 PM

Cristobal DiMarco

I'm not a major golf fan, but I've found the major events can make for solid sports drama--even more so if you actually care who wins. Yesterday, I was rooting for the guy who sat next to me in 9th grade Spanish class to pull off the upset: Cristóbal
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Friday, March 25, 2005 1:41 PM

JVC: In the Can?

This isn't a knock against Scoble per se, but it just struck me unusual that somewhere out there, the poor folks who worked hard to bring a new digitial video camera to market over at JVC are going to get wind of the fact that Robert Scoble is doing a
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Monday, March 21, 2005 9:37 AM

43 Folders: Useful, Short-sighted or Both?

I've been subscribed to 43 Folders for a while now. I can't say it's proven as indispensible as I thought it might when I initially happened upon it, but for whatever reason it was growing on me. Then the author announces that they have a new wiki and
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Monday, August 04, 2003 1:52 PM

CNET Chronicles RSS Standards Developments

The CNET article that was being mentioned a couple weeks ago is on their top banner today. Somewhat balanced, they didn't rake too much mud, I suppose. It seems that picking a name for !Pie/!Echo/!Atom has taken on as much importance as the actual standards
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Monday, June 16, 2003 12:24 AM

HtmlClean plug-in available

Well, let's give it a rip. By popular demand, we now have a HtmlClean plug-in available which will clean and convert the HTML output from NewsGator into valid xhtml before posting. It works in conjunction with any other posting plug-in. This plug-in
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Monday, June 09, 2003 10:22 PM

Back at the Reinstall Mines

You install and reinstall enough of the same applications over and over again and you're sure to have some peeves. As I rebuild my main work machine today, these peeves once again naturally rise to surface consciousness. The application I hate reinstalling
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Monday, June 02, 2003 10:47 PM

Reminded that ISerializable != XmlSerializable

So I thought I'd replace an explicit IConfigurationSectionHandler by making the relevant configuration object nice and neatly serializable via xml. I've done this a couple times previously, it just took some twiddling with the various serialization attributes,
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Monday, June 02, 2003 7:32 PM

Get Ashcroft on DDOS Enforcement

Sigh. I love Speakeasy. I've had DSL from them for years and it's been amazingly reliable. I live 3 blocks east of the WTC, they had me back online in a matter of weeks, way before I had phone service (and my DSL was the my last connectivity link to fail
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Monday, June 02, 2003 1:53 AM

Reloaded: I've Enjoyed BSODs More

Sam's post mirrors my disappointment with Reloaded. I saw it this afternoon and to say I was profoundly disappointed is an understatement. Which is really saying something since I was expecting a fair amount of disappointment based upon early returns.
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Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:12 PM

IE Died at v6 SP1, Netscape Died Today

Ron Green asked Scoble. Scoble presumably knows but can't really say, which is understandable given his assimilation. DonXML thinks it's as dead as COM. I don't agree with the point of comparison (COM, like the rest of us, is definitely going to die--it's
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Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:09 PM

System.UriBuilder: It's the Little Things

I was debugging some wierd behavior in my trackback ping routines earlier. Specifically, I was checking for an existing trackback entry on a target page for a given post. Issue a GET to the trackback url with __mode=rss appended to the querystring, seemed
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Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:23 AM

Amen, FreeTextBox.NET

Saw this via Jesse Ezell, amen, rejoice, etc. Well, if it turns out to be decent, I haven't worked it over yet--FreeTextBox.NET.I've been looking of a rich html editor that was both good and free for a while. I'm all for paying for decent components when
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