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A blog about life, Microsoft, random technology and general academic stuff.
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August 2004 - Posts
100 Subscribers!
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:41 PM
I just checked and it appears that I now have 100 subscribers. That is just so cool. Now I know that not all of you read my blog everyday but it is flattering that you have added me to the list of blogs you subscribe to. I will try my best to write interesting
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Thoughts on Longhorn
Monday, August 30, 2004 3:18 PM
I like to think that time and experience gives one some perspective. I’m been around computers a while. I’ve been programming for over 30 years for example. I’ve been using the internet for only 20 years though. I say “only” because I have friends who
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Microsoft Research
Sunday, August 29, 2004 7:40 PM
Mark made a reference to wanting to get into Microsoft Research in a comment to one of my other blogs. This made me thing that some of you might like some direct pointers to information about what MSR (as we call Microsoft Research because we like three
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Olympics
Saturday, August 28, 2004 3:19 PM
There have been three common threads of discussion among bloggers I read and people I am friendly with about the Olympics this year.
USA Basketball
Olympic judging
Sports that do not belong in the Olympics.
I’ve decided to do a blog about the three
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American Basketball
Thursday, August 26, 2004 2:37 PM
I’m worried about American basketball. I think the current situation with the US Olympic team highlights some of the problems with American basketball. In short, we’ve lost sight of the fundamentals. It’s not a new problem though. I saw it coming. In
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Allergies (I Hope)
Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:08 AM
I give up. I’ve been trying to get a combination of Microsoft work and personal work (including a really great blog entry) done for the last two hours. My sinuses are stuffed up, my head is hurting, and I can’t seem to think worth a darn. I think it’s
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Three by sea
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:10 AM
OK so it really isn’t by sea but it rhymed. Last week I was on vacation and one of my goals was to spend as much time on the water as I could. So I spent some time in my kayak. I also spent some time in other water vessels.
[Kayak]
On Wednesday night
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A day in the life ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:00 AM
Michael Haig posted a great “day in the life” blog today. He also issued an invitation for others to do the same. Seems like a good idea to me. So here is a day in my life.
I role out of bed sometime between 8 and 9 in the morning. Yeah that sounds pretty
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Shooting Sports
Monday, August 23, 2004 2:13 PM
I have not watched so much as a minute of the Olympics this year. Mostly I have not been near a TV set but even when I have been home I've just not been interested. That is not to say I haven't been following the results. One result I have been paying
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Home again
Saturday, August 21, 2004 8:09 PM
I am home from vacation. I have a lot of reading to catch up on here at theSpoke. I've already waded through a lot of email. I have a lot to write about but right now I am tired. First I had a 5 hour drive to get home. Then when I got home I found a lot
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Vacation
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:20 PM
Well Monday was a wash out. It rained most of the day. I read some. I napped some. I was behind on both reading and sleeping the last couple of weeks.
One of the people staying at the campground went missing Monday morning. Apparently he has some mental
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Vacation Report
Monday, August 16, 2004 1:47 PM
I’m writing this entry on Sunday night. The plan is to dial in Monday morning, check my email and while I download the messages I’ll drop this into the Spoke. If you’re reading this it worked.
So my family and I are at “camp” in the mountains. The water
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Vacation
Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:37 PM
I’m going on vacation. It’s been six months since I’ve taken any real time off and I’m ready. Every year for the past bunch of years my family has gone to a camp in the mountains of New York State for a week. My Dad, my youngest brother and his family
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CD and the OTB
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:47 AM
My flight today (I’m returning home from a couple of days in Philadelphia) was delayed. I also got to the airport very early because I finished my business early and I have learned that it is better to be bored at the airport than to be bored at the hotel
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Smart Watches
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:57 PM
It looks like smart watches are getting more interesting. I read this article this morning about a new watch from Tissot. Apparently Swatch, Tissot's parent company, is also planning a new SPOT watch as well. These watches receive news and weather and
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Dealing with wires
Monday, August 09, 2004 2:43 AM
My backpack has too many wires in it. Power cord for the laptop. Powercord for the cell phone. Ethernet cable. Headphones. Car/airplane power adapter. Modem cord. OK the modem cord is not much problem as it winds into a carrier. But the other cables keep
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Fame through blogging
Saturday, August 07, 2004 7:12 PM
So the other day Punski talked about trying to make his blog one of the top 100 blogs on the internet. I have to say that is an interesting goal and one way to gain a sort of fame on the internet. It is an idea I have thought about myself as much from
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A Walk in the Park
Friday, August 06, 2004 7:26 PM
Years ago I used to occasionally eat my lunch in Bryant Park in New York City. I worked a couple of blocks away. This was in the late 1970s and the park was a bit run down. You didn't usually go their alone even in the day time. Drug dealers would
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Change the world
Friday, August 06, 2004 3:53 AM
I was at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit earlier this week. As I alluded, Bill Gates spoke to the approximately 400 faculty members present. Being a very important person myself I was in the room next door watching on Closed Circuit TV.
Bill had
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My Family
Monday, August 02, 2004 8:08 PM
So this is my wife and son. They worked at the same school last year. There was a fund raiser and if the students raised enough money the principal and my son (who teaches special education) agreed to shave their heads. This picture was taken shortly
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Company Picnic
Monday, August 02, 2004 4:40 AM
I went to the Microsoft Company Picnic yesterday. It’s not often that someone who lives as far away from Redmond as I do gets to go. It’s not like I am going to spend the money on airfare and hotel to travel 2700 miles to get a “free meal.” And you know
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Dress for Success
Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:49 PM
The clothes make the man. (or woman) Or do they?
I used to work in downtown New York. The definition of casual attire was pretty much a sport coat, dress shirt, tie and nice pants. And trust me, most people did not come to work dressed casually. All
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Movie Reviews
Sunday, August 01, 2004 3:31 PM
I've added short movie reviews of the Thunderbirds and The Bourne Supremacy to the Movie message board. I really think that is an under utilized resource. I think we want, perhaps need, movie reviews to be easier to find and more persistent than
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