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August 2006 - Posts

Sir Tim: Calm Down 2.0
This is what The Register said Sir TBL said about Web 2.0: "You should thank Tim Berners-Lee. Not just for giving us the web, but for articulating what's gone wrong in the lexicon and thinking of Silicon Valley. Hopefully, his standing in the web community...
I've not met Frank, but I know about his shirt.
I've not met Frank Arrigo in person, but I know about his shirt. In the latest episode of the 'Frank and His Shirt' reality show series, the hunt is on for an apparent posuer . The background to this rather potracted saga is a story unto itself, even...
Connecting to my SQL Server db

This is cool. I've connected to my SQL Server db created for running the Community Server (2.1) on ASPnix using Microsoft SQL Management Studio.

Now also testing the tags feature on CS 2.1 - adding the 'SQL' and 'SQLServer' (seperated by ';').

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First blog post using CS 2.1 on ASPnix

Please work...

:-)

ah...i see i'm not 'alex' as author....let's see...

Windows Live QnA service - public beta
Congrats to Betsy and the team : the Windows Live QnA service is now in public beta. I've been on the private beta for a little while and turned to it for help for a couple of things when I got stuck. One example was asking for good seafood restaurants...
I still love the smell of comment spam in the morning.
I love the smell of comment spam in the morning. I did then , I do now.
YouTube video - How to - using Windows Movie Maker
A video on how to make a YouTube video using Windows Movie Maker, on YouTube , made using Windows Movie Maker ...
Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps
Somasega introduces the ' Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps ' 1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines 2. Enrich the user experience 3. Enable users to visualize, organize, and search 4. Run securely 5. Design for reliability and manageability...
RSS feeds, OPMLs and Grazr
Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for your feedreader. Some good feeds worth checking out there, including a bunch of Windows Live individual employee and team blogs. Kevin, one way of displaying...
Private equity buyouts and crack
Mitch Ratcliffe spotted a column published ealier this month on the FT. The article, written columinst John Plender , proposes that a leveraged buyout of Microsoft by private equity bankers would be a good thing. As Mitch points out, this scenario would...
Windows Live WiFi - beta testers wanted!
Laura John (who I used to work with while we were both at MSDN / TechNet), has blogged about something I've not heard of before...Windows Live WiFi: "We provide dial-up access to a ton of users across the United States but we've also been working on a...
oh yeah, I'm back...
From Yellowstone that is. Land of volcanos, bears, tents, and scary sounds at night. I nearly killed a coyote. Don't mess with me.
IE7 - RCs, Changes and CSS
As you probably know by now, Dean Hachamovitch announced this morning that Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is ready for download . So what is the difference between a 'Release Candidate' (RC) and a 'Beta'? Here's the short answer from Dean...
150 cool Windows XP downloads
150 cool Windows XP downloads . via JoshBlog
1 line in XAML
Tim Sneath asks : "What's the most impressive WPF demo you can construct in a single line of XAML? Can you improve on these?"
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