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Friday, October 31, 2003 8:26 PM

Towels on the rack - Towels on the floor...

[Update: I fixed the relative link for the image so that Gary's reader wouldn't drop my feed just because it was invalid (but all better now)] I am now a proud soldier in the army of the "Green Program" at the Wilshire Grand: If you can't read this little Read More

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What a night...

Wow. Sat down with Scott Hanselman earlier today to talk to him about an article he had been working on. Thought I was just going to be stopping for a second, but one thing led to another, and he pulled me along to the Microsoft regional director dinner, Read More

posted Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:09 AM by Rory | 7 Comments
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Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:13 AM

Lucky ATM

Even the ATMs are having a good time at the PDC... Read More

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The labs

Just got my first taste of Longhorn and Whidbey in the hands-on lab. The first thing I'd like to say is that this conference is totally non-OCD friendly. There should be at least one PC in each lab that can be accessed via a disposable germ-resistant Read More

posted Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:01 PM by Rory | 1 Comments
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Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:42 PM

Microsoft monks

Up until a couple days ago, I was a Large-Conference-Virgin. I have since been robbed of my innocence, and am now pregnant with thought (how do you like that for carrying the metaphor all the way through to the end?). Everything seems pretty normal and Read More

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In search of butterhorn

It's Wednesday morning, and I'm recovering from what was arguably the best session at the PDC so far. Basically, I went out boozing last night with some nerds, and I don't remember what we talked about, but I have a photo which seems to depict several Read More

posted Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:24 PM by Rory | 2 Comments
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Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:09 AM

I got picked up by a German

Scott Hanselman introduced me to a large German man today. I was worried that he wouldn't pick me up, but my fears were quickly allayed: The man lifting me in the photo is MS regional director Christian Weyer, and I would like to thank him for his services. Read More

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Network problems

HTTP is a disconnected protocol, and they definitely got the disconnected part right for the wireless network here at the conference. Read More

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:52 PM by Rory | 0 Comments
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Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:41 PM

WinFS and your porn collection - Making life easier

I knew WinFS was going to be awesome, but it's even awesomer than I expected. It isn't just going to make searches instantaneous. You're going to be able to easily create your own metadata schemas that can be tied into the shell. Think about it like this: Read More

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Digging Avalon with DonXML

DonXML and I are at an Avalon session right now, and it's nice to finally get to see this stuff for the first time. Yesterday technically would have been the first time that I ever saw Avalon in action, but I was so tired that I don't really count it. Read More