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Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:22 PM
Proud Dad Moment: Mitchell’s first TD
Here is a proud moment I got to witness and extremely lucky one of the team moms (thanks Liz!!!) was video taping that day. BTW the voice you here in the background yelling go, is little ole me. I was very excited. Go Mitchell!
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Monday, November 09, 2009 8:31 AM
Windows 7 Film Fest Contest
Check out the fun films from the Windows 7 Film Fest The contest took 17 film teams in the Seattle area competed. Rules were to create a 30 second to 2 minute film, targeted to IT Pros. Each team picked a different genre from a hat
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Friday, November 06, 2009 7:58 PM
TechNet Azure webcast - now available for viewing
In Q1 we did a number of events in the Central Region of the US on the topic of Azure. Budgets being what they are these days, we can’t go everywhere but fear not, we recorded the sessions from the Nashville, TN event. Here are the links to
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:28 AM
Now this is funny, Bolt owns ESPN
I particularly like the guys stretching and warming up:
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Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:10 AM
Join TechNet and MSDN Events for a Live Webcast on September 29th to explore Windows Azure™–
As some you have attended the live evnets for Azure this quarter, we have a webcast going on next week, click the links to register! TechNet Events Present: Real World Azure Come spend a morning with us on September 29th to explore Windows Azure™
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:44 PM
What is the diet of a professional Football Player?
I was looking around ESPN and saw this post about the typical meal for a NFL player. More specifically during the 2 a-days practice a typical offensive lineman needs to take in 7500 calories a day! 975 grams of carbohydrates 277 grams of protein
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:34 AM
SQL Azure Migration Wizard
As some of you know for the events this quarter we are talking about Azure and the power behind cloud computing. If you want to attend, see my previous post: TechNet and MSDN Events: Get Real into IT with Azure and Microsoft IT! Well one of my teammates
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Friday, August 21, 2009 3:53 PM
Harold Becomes a Chef for a day
My teammate, technical editor, and friend Harold Wong , became a chef for the day at a Japanese Steakhouse Benihana . I am so jealous, that looked so much fun. Basically Benihana offered a program.Be The Chef at Benihana. The package
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Friday, July 17, 2009 8:32 AM
Lighting up the web a THIRD time with Expression Studio and Silverlight!
Last week we announced a new version of Expression Studio and Silverlight . My buddy Keith even did a nice demo located here: Expression Encoder Screen Capture 3 – HD screencast demonstration Here is the launch blurb: Microsoft® Expression®
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Friday, May 29, 2009 8:42 AM
Learn About Surface 5 part video series now showing!
My good friend and teammate Jennifer Marsman just posted a great 5 part series on Surface. As you know from my Interview with Rick Barazza at SXSW , I think the device is awesome as well. Enjoy the series below: Surface Development Part 1:
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Monday, May 18, 2009 10:41 AM
Interop Road Show Screencasts
As some of you know I have been delivering road shows across the country. We even did a simulcast with a webcast from the Downers Grove event. This event we did a great job, although the demo videos may not have been the best quality, but
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:05 PM
Still accepting entries for the Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Only 15 days left!!!!!!
It is crunch time folks there are only 15 days left in the Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest . We are still accepting entries into the contest! For the original post and more about the contest take a look here: Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:43 AM
Brief History of the Web from MIX09 IE 8 launch!
Check out this fun video!
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Friday, March 13, 2009 12:53 PM
Which browser is faster: FireFox, Chrome or IE? You may be surprised!
Click on the picture to find out or here Browser Performance Testing : Surprised? Testing browsers I always thought would be easy. In reality, it’s much more complex than that. Many things need to be taken into account when comparing the page load
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Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:00 PM
Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!
Alright Keith and I are at it again and this time we want to give away the cool stuff like a: Lenovo T61P ! Okay do I have your attention now? As some of you may recall we had a contest last time just for the MVP’s and a lot of you wanted in on
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