Untitled-4 Blog Apr 26, 2005 Triple Threat While waiting on Whidbey beta 2 bits to finish downloading this morning, I took my R/C warbirds out to the driveway and snapped some pics. This is the first time all three of them have been in flying condition at...
Untitled-4 Blog Apr 24, 2005 Check Out the Digital Duo My old friend Steve Manes is at it again. He and I were columnists together years ago at PC Magazine, and when I go to Redmond during baseball season, he and I often get together and go to Mariners games....
Untitled-4 Blog Apr 23, 2005 NYC at the Speed of Light Yesterday was a long day. I got up at 4:15 a.m., drove to the airport, and caught a 5:50 a.m. flight to LaGuardia. I cabbed into the city and did two talks on ASP.NET 2.0 at the Microsoft Financial Services...
Untitled-4 Blog Apr 18, 2005 At Long Last: Beta 2! It's official: Whidbey beta 2 is out. You can download beta 2 of Visual Web Develeper from http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/getvwd/. It's time to begin porting all that beta 1 code to beta 2, or to dive into Whidbey if you weren't on...
Untitled-4 Blog Apr 16, 2005 Peace of mind in the event disasters strike. Random CompSci Research Paper Generator Francesco Balena turned me on to this litte gem written by some MIT CompSci students: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ Next time I'm asked to submit a paper for a conference, I'll know exactly where to go. :-)
Untitled-4 Blog Apr 14, 2005 Reduce latency, increase data resiliency & improve app usability. XBox in Iraq I just received e-mail from a friend in the 278th. His unit just returned from an “outing” that had them out of the office for several days. He e-mailed me a picture of the soldiers enjoying their new XBox. Looks...
Untitled-4 Blog Apr 14, 2005 Up for Air Whew! I've come up for air after a busy last few weeks. I'm still on a high after spending spring break in Grand Cayman, where my family logged a total of 40 dives. My son did 16 dives, I did...
Untitled-4 Blog Mar 30, 2005 Sad News No sooner had I posted the previous entry about the XBox making it to the 278th than I read that their unit had suffered its first casualty in Iraq: http://www.wbir.com/news/search_article.aspx?storyid=24231 They can probably use a little morale boost right now....
Untitled-4 Blog Mar 29, 2005 Videos for Heroes The 278th is still waiting for their XBox to arrive. It should arrive any day now. It seems packages take anywhere from two weeks to a month to make it to military personnel in Iraq. Today I sent another package containing the...
Untitled-4 Blog Mar 21, 2005 Wireless Internet Access Comes to the Caymans It's spring break, and to make up for a vacation that I had to cancel last summer, my wife and I are in the Cayman Islands with the kids. We're staying at a dive resort on the north coast of...
Untitled-4 Blog Mar 16, 2005 More on the Thrill of a Lifetime The simulator that I flew in was manufactured by a company named CAE. I didn't have my trusty digital camera with me (unfortunately), but CAE's Web site has a picture of a simulator like the one I flew in as...
Untitled-4 Blog Mar 16, 2005 Thrill of a Lifetime I had the thrill of a lifetime yesterday—literally. I had the opportunity to do something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid. It was maybe the most exciting one hour of my life. I hardly even remember the...