21 Jun
2005

iPod

My wonderful wife purchased a 4Gen 20G iPod for me for Father’s Day.  I love having it and so far I have listened to a lot of Pod Casts and Old Time Radio shows.  I am scraping OTR with Star Dowloader from www.rusc.com, which stands for Are You Sitting Comfortably.  I actually paid for a […]

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15 Jun
2005

DotText2DasBlog Hiccup

In addition to losing my Google links until a re-index, the other thing that has been a problem with moving blog engines has been that das Blog does not support the articles that I wrote in .Text.  I am in the process of converting them to posts as I am getting requests for some of […]

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14 Jun
2005

Link Leecher

At the risk of exposing just how big a nerd I really am, I will tell you that I have an affinity for old time radio programs (OTR for those in the know).  Shows like The Shadow, Dragnet, and The Whistler.  I just love ’em. Folks who publish these shows as MP3 files are not […]

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14 Jun
2005

Brian Jones is Cool

I sent an email to Brian Jones, Program Manager for MS Word, asking some questions about the new MS Word XML capabilities.  Get this… he answered me.  Now that is just cool.  Maybe Microsoft is staffed with real people. I am respecting the exchange enough not to just post the email thread, but suffice to […]

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13 Jun
2005

Awesome Bug Report

I am probably way behind the blleding edge on this idea, but I just received the coolest bug report ever.  My tester recorded the web app through SnapIt as a video (AVI) and sent it to me to illustrate the bug.  My gosh, that was effective! Links Tech Smith, the makers of SnagIt.

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12 Jun
2005

iReqwire Ignite

About a year and a half ago, my nieghbor and I were sitting around at a barbeque and talking about our respective jobs (He is a project manager for a big bank).  He told me about an idea he had for a product and after I understood it I replied, “That’ a darn good idea.” […]

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