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St. Baldrick's Foundation

April 09, 2008
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A colleague of mine has taken the noble and, simultaneously, entertaining opportunity to shave his head in support of ...

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Microsoft Error Reporting

April 07, 2008
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When crashes occur in the Windows XP environment there has always been this aggravating error reporting popup that ...

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ieHTTPHeaders 2.0

April 04, 2008
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I have been a fan of the ieHTTPHeaders (v1.6) application for a couple of years now, it has been my HTTP sniffer of ...

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.NET Debugging Labs

April 03, 2008
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There are a great set of troubleshooting labs for .NET, seven in all, over at Tess' blog. It deals with different ...

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Time for a new phone

April 02, 2008
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I am taking a much more active look at the mobile\smart phone scene. I have been very happy with the quality of service ...

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The cost of free software...

April 01, 2008
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I understand nothing is really free, and in fact the cost of this Java runtime update would probably be staggering in ...

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ClickOnce installation

March 26, 2008
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I was happily creating my application when I realized that I need to start thinking (at least in theory) about the ...

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Zune - RSS problems with mixed content

March 22, 2008
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I was checking out some Podcasts at the Zune Marketplace, when I realized that I seemed to be missing all the ...

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RSS Development - FeedManager

March 21, 2008
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In the CommonRSS application I am creating I started looking at using the Microsoft Feeds API. This API will allow me ...

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