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The Many Faces of a Developer
Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:03 AM

What types of developers are there?Short article about ways in which people can grow into different development areas.

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Did I leave my chicken there?
Monday, November 29, 2004 1:28 PM

Well, the Thanksgiving dinner turned out to be a bit different.I have come to the conlusion that pumpkin pie is not available in Singapore. I looked all over the Central Business District - going to cafes, supermarkets, and stores catering to westerners...

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Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 7:03 PM

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! May you all (well, at least you fellow Americans that celebrate Thanksgiving) eat your fill of turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and pumpkin pie today!It will be another Thanksgiving for me here in Singapore.

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Take me back
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:24 AM

Found a cool link while looking at Prasanna's blog.Wonder what a website looked like back in time? Enter in the URL at the Wayback Machine and you can pull up the home pages for tons of sites that were archived.

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Chatting in virtual Singapore
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 3:32 AM

Well, this is kind of interesting. Sing-Gum International has developed a free game called "My City." Basically you go into this virtual city and just walk around and chat with people.They have sites like Suntec City, the Esplanade, and

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Sneak preview of Avalon
Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:34 AM

If you're an MSDN subscriber, you can take a look at the community technology preview of Avalon."It's not a full beta, or test, version, but rather an incomplete set of code that lets developers test certain features and pass along their thoughts to Microsoft."I'm

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Sri Lanka
Sunday, November 21, 2004 6:25 PM

Sri Lanka… I thought I would share a few photos from Sri Lanka. I went there a couple weeks ago to meet up with the MVPs in Colombo, attend a Sri Lanka .net forum event, and then go on a short vacation down to the historic city of Galle

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4 hour naps
Saturday, November 20, 2004 4:10 PM

One of the things I look forward to each weekend is my regular nap. Such joy in napping. Now usually these naps don't last that long... 30 minutes, 1 hour, 90 minutes... but every once in awhile I will have a glorious 4 hour nap where

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Workplace accident
Friday, November 19, 2004 9:55 AM

Sad... this accident happened at the building right next to our office here in Singapore's Central Business District.Edit:"A scaffolding near the top of the building collapsed, killing two workers, 29-year-old Singaporean Ang Chee Kong, and 26-year-old

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Welcome Tejas Shah to the academic developer team in India!
Friday, November 19, 2004 5:34 AM

Exciting news showed up in my mailbox yesterday.Tejas Shah is the new Microsoft Academic Evangelist for the west region of India - based in Mumbai.It's funny, I met Tejas when I first started as the Academic Evangelist for Asia. He was in Beijing

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You think you know the USA?
Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:40 PM

You think you know the USA? Try out this game and prove it.Edit:Wanted to mention that Major Nelson's blog has a good entry about the Xbox after 3 years. I think Xbox is a great example of how even a staid company like Microsoft can move into

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Lighter side
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:20 PM

You all have probably seen these links. Aftermath of the US election...Sorry EverybodyNot Sorry EverybodyAnd for some lighter news...President Bush pardoned this Thanksgiving turkey.See you on Thursday.

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Halo 2 update
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:33 PM

For those of you who have noticed Halo 2 matchmaking via XBox Live a little bit slow, an update was just released that fixes the problem. Go online with Halo 2 and it will prompt you to install the update. Happy gaming! Ann: Halo

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Get free music
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:20 AM

The Creative Commons CD has all its tracks available online. Including songs by the Beastie Boys and David Byrne (formerly of Talking Heads).Read this article from ZDNet talking about the legal system and P2P SoftwareIn other news, I finally beat

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Music is not a loaf of bread
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:11 AM

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy talks about how music companies have it all wrong when it comes to file sharing."Giving away an album online isn't the way most artists end up with gold records. But it worked out that way for Wilco... By conventional industry

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Treat employees well
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:12 AM

Here's a good example of how to treat employees well. Robinson's in Singapore knows how to foster employee loyalty."Meanwhile, Robinson picked up the tab for her medical bills, even when her medical entitlement had been used up, right up to her

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Visual Studio 2005 Team System
Monday, November 15, 2004 5:24 PM

Read a good summary article about the upcoming Visual Studio Team System. From the .NET Developer's Journal.

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A bit of nothing
Sunday, November 14, 2004 7:50 PM

Just wanted to test the new camera out a bit, particularly the night time shots.Here's a view from one side of the Microsoft office.

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New camera!
Saturday, November 13, 2004 9:53 PM

I mentioned below - I got a new digital camera today! It's been a few years since I have gotten a new cmaera. I am quite excited about it. Just in time for my upcoming Japan trip at the end of next week! I got the Kyocera Finecam

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High and dry
Saturday, November 13, 2004 9:29 PM

An interesting and good night. I have a friend from Australia (who has been living in Canada for the past 4 years or so) visiting me here in Singapore. They just arrived last night and we had a pleasant walk around the waterfront to see

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Tell us what you want
Saturday, November 13, 2004 4:12 AM

theSpoke team is conducting a survey to learn what you guys think about the various features of theSpoke and also find out ways in which theSpoke can be improved. Take the survey It is pretty quick to fill out. Don't feel shy in providing

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Firefox Pug Jelly Team Building
Friday, November 12, 2004 7:50 PM

I finally got around to trying out the much-talked about web browser, Firefox. Version 1.0 was just released a couple days ago and there has been noise all over the place about what a great browser it is. I've had friends using it since

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Bits
Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:21 PM

Microsoft stock is around a 52 week high. For many employees I'm sure they're thinking about, "Do I sell? Do I wait for the dividend? Do I buy and hold?" Who knows. The stock market seems like a facade of an entire industry,

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Halo 2
Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:41 PM

I'm back from Sri Lanka.Just in time to get my copy of Halo 2.2:45 in the morning. Just one more game... then I'll go to bed... right?

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Dropped out
Friday, November 05, 2004 10:50 AM

I'm in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka... where the tourist season hasn't started up yet. If you find a map of Sri Lanka, it's on the southern coast, next to the city of Galle. This is a tiny little hamlet with a beautiful beach. No tourists here... I'm literally

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Get your game on!
Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:18 PM

Greetings from Colombo, Sri Lanka! It’s been a hectic trip here so far… our flight landed around 12:30 am last night (err… this morning?) and then it took about an hour and a half to get to the hotel. The streets are quite dark in Colombo…

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To Sri Lanka
Monday, November 01, 2004 11:32 AM

All right! Time to get on the road again... in about 4 hours I'll be on a plane heading to Colombo, Sri Lanka.I'll be going there to meet with the MVPs as well as participate at a meeting of the Sri Lanka .net forum. It will be good to be

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