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Effing Hail
June 18, 2009No Comments
I love this game, and it’s great with a mouse. But it would make an even more amazing iPhone game… http://jiggmin.com/play_game.php?title=Effing+Hail
Recommendation Letter
June 18, 2009No Comments
Hilarious recommendation letter. http://topherchris.com/post/106795199/recommendation-letter
Twitter Experiment
June 18, 2009No Comments
I am experimenting a little with auto-tweeting from my blog to Twitter. In general, I dislike when people do this, for the following reasons: I get double-exposure to their content. If I am interested enough in someone to follow them on Twitter, and they also have a blog, then 90% of the time I also [...]
PowerShell for Fun and Profit
June 15, 2009No Comments
Stefan Goßner has a great post on his blog covering some common problems that people have with Content Deployment in SharePoint. Problem 13 has to do with the default timeout window for Content Deployment jobs. Stefan provides some sample code that you can use to adjust the timeout value, since it’s not exposed through the [...]
Who Watches the Watchman?
May 21, 2009No Comments
Fascinating piece of technology that I’d never heard of: the watchclock. For fun, read the first part of the article, which describes the scenario and use-case, then try to design a solution before you read further. Who Watches the Watchman? (via Daring Fireball)
Science is Fun!
May 18, 20091 Comment
Great xkcd today about what gets kids interested in science.
Wikipedia Walks
May 18, 2009No Comments
A few years ago I realized that when I would start reading an interesting article on Wikipedia, I would often end up reading 6-8 additional articles that were linked from the original article, then branch out from there, etc. etc. I’d end up in a completely different subject than the one I’d started in, and [...]
Computer Security X-Ray Specs
May 17, 2009No Comments
IT security consultant Rich Mogull gives some tips for seeing through the BS in security press releases. It’s aimed at the Mac community, but it has some insightful info that applies across the board. In particular, I like his even-handed evaluation of the relative security of both Windows and OS X: For many years Mac [...]
Respect Religion
May 16, 2009No Comments
Marco Arment on Judaism: There’s no sales pitch. No recruiting team. Nobody spamming me in the subway, coming to my door, or yelling at me on the street. If I want to learn anything about Judaism, I can just ask the many Jewish people I know. … They’re comfortable enough in their beliefs that they [...]
Office 2010: The Movie
May 15, 2009No Comments
A bit cheesy, but glad to see some news about the next version of Office finally coming out. I wish there were some screenshots or videos in the little movie clip, but it’s early – I’m sure we’ll be releasing that sort of stuff in the future. It’ll be a busy next few months for [...]
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