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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:43 AM

How does an IT Pro Thrive during these tough times?

This past week at TechEd, I interviewed an attendee that has leveraged the Microsoft Thrive sight which provides resources for IT Pros. These resources focus on improving your skills through training and certification, identifying career opportunities,
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Monday, January 26, 2009 10:15 AM

New Org, Same Role.....

As of Friday of last week, I am part of the DPE - Developer and Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft. My previous team was always sort of a dotted line to this org but now it is official. What I do as an IT Evangelist doesn't change much - I will still
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Friday, November 21, 2008 8:57 AM

Guitar Hero for Disabled Gamers.....

Reading SlashDot this morning and ran across this great article . Researchers are developing new interfaces or modifying existing ones to allow the blind and those with missing limbs to be able to take part in the Guitar Hero phenomenon. In the IEEE article
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Friday, October 03, 2008 8:01 AM

Zune software coming to Windows Mobile?

According to a post over at wmpoweruser.com , Steve Ballmer confirmed the Zune software will be coming to the Windows Mobile platform. More importantly, he notes what everyone should be realizing by now - "At the end of the day, one of the big trends
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:37 AM

Interesting interview with founders of The Pirate Bay...

This article is an interesting read . I really appreciate that these guys don't hide under rocks and are accessible. I would really enjoy seeing them speak at a conference.   Cheers!
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:58 AM

Zune 3.0 Update available....

We announced the Zune 3.0 software update today and you can get the software over at Zune.net . I have my 2nd generation Zune with me and just started the download.    Check it out!   Cheers!
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Friday, September 12, 2008 6:58 AM

Windows Live Search comes to BlackBerry....

Check out this story over on Bloomberg announcing the deal we made with Research in Motion to get Live Search on BlackBerry devices . Take THAT Google.... ***UPDATE*** -- More on the deal from MSNBC . This one includes info on the RIM/TiVO/MySpace deals....
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Monday, September 01, 2008 9:48 PM

2 Days Missed....

This is what my blog post from last night was supposed to say... Missed One.... For those of you following closely, I missed making my daily blog post yesterday. I realized this after my wife and I took off to go to karaoke. I did try to get a post online
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:46 AM

Under the Hood: Windows Vista Performance...Need Answers?

I imagine most any ITPro that has worked with Windows in the past decade knows about some of the cool tools brought to us by Sysinternals over the years. What you might not know is that Sysinternals is now a part of the Microsoft family . That means we
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:31 AM

My Twitter Badge....

If you scroll down my blog, on the left side you will see what I have added a Twitter Badge that displays tweets that I  send/receive. Problem is, no matter what kind of tweaks I make to the code on my end or through Twitters Badge Builder, it never
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Monday, August 25, 2008 4:48 AM

The Facebook walk of shame....

Can I take yesterdays post back? I logged in this morning thinking I would spend a few minutes poking around, adding/removing/configuring apps, adding friends, etc. Now here is it 20 minutes later and I know I could spend another couple hours here. That
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 8:31 AM

Facebook......you have 30 more days.....

Wait a sec....did I ever really use it anyway? Here are the reasons.... 1) I never really started with Facebook anyway.... I have never been able to get into Facebook. I know some people think it is the best thing since sliced bread but I have never found
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Friday, August 22, 2008 8:00 PM

Texas is flippin' hot! and Letterboxing....

Wow!    I can't believe I lived in the Dallas area for 20+ years and that I missed it when I moved. Let me rephrase - I do miss Dallas...I just don't miss triple digit heat indexes and 95% humidity. I arrived yesterday at about 6am when
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 6:28 AM

A blog about Microsoft product team blogs....

In my search for interesting things to post about, I ran across a new blog that tracks Microsoft product team blogs. BlogMS tracks over 100 blogs that are written by Microsoft product teams and other interesting Microsoft news. The most recent post talks
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:48 AM

Twitterfone....

I managed to get a beta invite (I don't think it is that hard...) to TwitterFone and I just sent my first voice tweet. The service lets me dial a number on my mobile phone and basically leave a voice mail that gets converted to text and tweeted through
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