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Soapbox on MSN

September 20, 2006
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The online video world appears to have room for one more player as Microsoft puts the new Soapbox up against YouTube. ...

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More Info

September 18, 2006
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Two great posts that were passed to me from my manager. One for debugging issue with IIS app pool crashes the other ...

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Zune

September 14, 2006
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Zune is out I am very excited about it, unfortunately I committed $100 to a 1 Gig Sandia c140 MP3 player just a few ...

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Why Google Spreadsheets ... why now?

September 14, 2006
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I have used Excel for years, for things like totals, creating graphs, even organizing projects. I am just not seeing ...

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The last IE user..

September 13, 2006
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I think I may be the last person with any 'tech sense' to use IE 6 for personal use. I have stuck with it mainly ...

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AJAX is on the way!

September 12, 2006
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This just up on Scott Gu's Blog ... AJAX is getting full support in ASP.NET\Visual Studio 2005. While there have been ...

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Understanding ViewState

September 07, 2006
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There are many inconsistent explanations on the use and nature of ViewState in ASP.NET. Don found this rather detailed ...

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Handheld Games, how it all began...

August 30, 2006
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Hand held games really started to boom in the 1980's and I was on the band wagon early and often. One of my favorite ...

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Faux Microsoft office values

August 25, 2006
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I am a real fan of Ricky Gervais and the original version of The Office from the BBC. I happened upon these two faux ...

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