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October 2004 - Posts

Weekend
Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:57 PM

I am glad the weekend is here!Something's going on around the office. I started with a sore throat earlier this week and lost my voice completely on Wednesday. Me in meetings was like an old Seinfeld episode where everyone was whispering on

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And now, for something a little different...
Friday, October 22, 2004 4:28 PM

When we began theSpoke, we wanted it to be a community for students built by students. To enable that, one of the things that we've wanted to do was to enable people to experiment with the code that makes up theSpoke. Sounds like

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Ideas for dissolving boundaries
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:49 PM

As promised, here are some of the things which inspired us when we came up with the theme for this year's Imagine Cup.Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) is an organization that delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics,

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RichardC, Dissolving Boundaries
Sunday, October 17, 2004 9:20 PM

RichardC's blog has a sneak preview to the Visual Gaming Algorithm. He is Mr. Visual Gaming. This invitational we hope will provide an on-ramp into the world of game developing that we've heard interests a lot of students.On my last blog,

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Blogging & IC2005 Theme
Friday, October 15, 2004 12:56 AM

<Improving Everyday Life>I thought this article from The New York Times about how bloggers are affecting the US Presidential Election this year was interesting (you'll have to register and sign in, however).A little less than a year ago blogging

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Official welcome to Imagine Cup 2005
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:46 AM

It's here. The registration for Imagine Cup 2005 is now open. On behalf of the entire team here at Microsoft, we wish you the best of luck and hope to see you in Japan!!!

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Imagine Cup registration almost open
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:15 AM

I'm anxiously waiting for the Imagine Cup registration to open up. I've seen it on our beta server; internal testers are giving it a final shakedown... But I'm so impatient!In the past, Imagine Cup has mostly spread through word-of-mouth by

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Visual Gaming Algorithm
Sunday, October 10, 2004 1:29 AM

Soma (who is the VP of engineering for our division) asked for a review the other day, and Shreyas showed him a beta version of the starter kit for the Visual Gaming Algorithm invitational of the Imagine Cup. I hadn't seen it in a couple of weeks

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New theSpoke features coming soon
Thursday, October 07, 2004 5:30 AM

One of the things I hear a lot when I talk to people is "how/why do you do that at Microsoft"? I sense that there is a certain amount of mystique associated with us, and I suspect that sometimes the lack of transparency into the way things get done

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Catching up with Imagine Cup 2004 students, judge
Saturday, October 02, 2004 7:43 PM

When I was in France a couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of having dinner with the students that won the French Imagine Cup -- Guillaume, Aymeric, Francois, and Vincent. They were as funny and lively and energetic as when they were in Brazil.

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