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February 2004 - Posts

Vacation is over
Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:56 AM

Well its back to real life. My son and I got home from vacation last night. Its good to be home of course but every time I go on a good vacation I wish I could always be on vacation. Not happening any time soon though. The last full day of vacation we

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From Xbox to real life
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:00 AM

Today my son and I rode our snowboards at a resort called Brighton in Utah. Why did we choose Brighton over the other hills in the area? Well Brighton has a number of runs that are featured in the Xbox video game Amped 2. My son really likes to play the

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A chance to help
Monday, February 23, 2004 1:36 AM

Mario started a topic in the forums asking people for ideas for question of the day. Today they are using one of my suggestions. I got a kick out of that. If you have some ideas why not go suggest them. If you don't have any ideas put on your thinking

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Spoiled by speed
Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:51 PM

I’ve really gotten spoiled. Almost every where I go I have a good internet connection. I have a cable modem at home. I also have wireless so I can access it anywhere in (or around) the house. When I go to a Microsoft office I also have wireless plus if

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How often should you blog?
Friday, February 20, 2004 2:05 PM

So the obvious answer is: As often as you have something interesting to say. But that’s not really helpful is it? Interesting to who? How do you know what is interesting to others? So probably it should be interesting to you. Well I know some people

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American Colleges
Monday, February 16, 2004 8:23 PM

I'm starting to think that Ian and I should tag team blog. Once again he's got a thought provoking rant going on. Ian is a bit down on the American college way of doing business and he has some good points. There are too many people who are not taking

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Know any "older" snowboarders?
Sunday, February 15, 2004 9:16 PM

Well we went snowboarding today. We had a great time and I didn't break anything. I am stiff and sore and tired. The middle of February is way too late in the season for the first outing of the winter. And I am so out of shape. Every year, probably every

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Going snowboarding
Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:58 PM

Tomorrow my son and I are going snowboarding. My son has been out a number of times this winter but this will be the first time this winter for me. I last went riding last winter and after I got back I had back surgery. No cause and effect of course.

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Who is watching and should you care
Friday, February 13, 2004 3:53 PM

Back a couple of days ago Ian had a great blog about privacy and online identities. Its well worth reading as it has a number of good points. People really need to think about who their audience really is when posting things online. We often tend to

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Tablet PC Tic Tac Toe
Sunday, February 08, 2004 9:55 PM

One of the things I like to do on trips is to play with programming code. Sure you can read on the plane or sleep but often I like to write a simple little program to try something new out. Working for Microsoft I get to play with some nice toys. One

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Business Travel
Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:20 PM

So everyone thinks business travel is all good. You see interesting places, meet interesting people and someone else pays for it all. Well it's not quite that simple.I just got back from a week in Seattle. Aside from the hotel, the building the meetings

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