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July 29, 2008
I’m slowly gaining ground in the war against paper. I’m a packrat, which immediately calls into question the structural integrity of my house and garage. However, I’ve discovered that technology transcends the limitations of corporeal space. I can still hoard precious tidbits for posterity in digital form without risking premature burial under collapsing stacks of […]
Tags: digital packrat, Live Mesh, Microsoft, paperless billing, personal archiving, wishlists
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July 2, 2008
The PicLens guys and gals have rolled out a new 1.7 release with quite a few new navigational aides and features. I’m a little late to the party with this post, as 1.7 went public a few weeks ago while I was distracted with bootstrapping the new job at Microsoft.
The three headliners for this 1.7 […]
Tags: Amazon, browser plugin, PicLens
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June 30, 2008
There has been a bit of pot-stirring on the blogs this weekend. Dare Obasanjo reflects on recent migrations of Google engineers to Microsoft, using the “e” word (exodus). Dion Almaer fires back, pointing out that people move between companies all the time, hardly justification for the “exodus”.
Both are right, and both are wrong.
First off, I […]
Tags: career, Google, jobs, Microsoft, recruitment, workplace
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June 25, 2008
In getting back up to speed with Silverlight, and in particular the new Silverlight 2 beta 2, I’ve been surfing through the many quickstart topics on various web sites. While skimming “Receiving Plain XML Messages with Silverlight” these words lept out at me:
note: The WebClient class does not currently support cross-domain calls.
Say what?
The article then […]
Tags: cross-domain, Microsoft, Silverlight, XDR
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June 21, 2008
So here I am configuring my dev machine in Redmond from my laptop in my home office in Santa Cruz. I’m all VPN’d and security card authenticated up the wazoo, installing this and configuring that on the dev machine via Remote Desktop. (Praise be to RD!)
I get Hyper-V set up on the dev machine so I can […]
Tags: Hyper-V, remote management, telecommuting, virtual machine
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June 9, 2008
In all the excitement of getting oriented in the new digs at Microsoft, I almost missed the news that Silverlight 2 beta 2 has been released! You can get the goods from Silverlight.net. I found a nice overview of what Silverlight 2 and beta 2 have over on the GeekValley blog.
Lots to dig into in Silverlight […]
Tags: Microsoft, Silverlight
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June 4, 2008
Om Malik notes YouTube exec Sashi Seth is now Cooliris chief revenue officer.
I’ve had the pleasure of talking with Sashi for the past few weeks at Cooliris, and have been impressed with his knowledge of the online advertising space and his drive to make things happen. Cooliris intends to pay the bills using advertising, but has been hampered by […]
Tags: ads, CoolIris, PicLens, YouTube
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May 28, 2008
Curious title… ring any bells? No, not the story by Edgar Allen Poe. I wrote an article a long time ago (2 years, 1 month, and 12 days) with this title to announce my joining the Windows Live team at Microsoft.
I worked from my home in Santa Cruz (California), working with my team in Redmond (Washington). […]
Tags: Chuck Jazdzewski, CoolIris, Microsoft, telecommuting, Visual Studio
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May 14, 2008
In the recently released Piclens build 1.6.4.2795, we’ve added support for displaying non-English / non-Western language characters in the image titles on the PicLens 3D wall. You can see the results on mediaRSS photo web sites in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and other languages. You can also play with this with carefully placed queries to major image search […]
Tags: Chinese, CJK, fonts, Japanese, Korean, language, multilingual, PicLens, text
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April 21, 2008
We’re flattered, delighted, and ecstatic that so many web sites are directing their users to download PicLens. Great! The more the merrier.
Just one thing: Web site authors, please be careful how you link to the PicLens downloads. PicLens supports a wide variety of browsers and operating systems, and different downloads are required for each. Please don’t link […]
Tags: browser plugin, downloads, Identity Archipelago, PicLens
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