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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:55 PM

My new HTC Wizard

So i got my new HTC wizard (flavored as T-Mobile MDA) and I must say it's a really nice device.  Of course anything after using a blackbarely for a few years will seem better.  A few things that I do not like; * setting up synchronization
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:32 PM

RSS Reader that support offline images

I need a new RSS reader.  The one I have now (Attensa) is great but I do almost 100% of my blog reading on the train with no connection...so when I open up a feed that has pictures (Engadget for instance) all I see are broken
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:59 PM

Wanted: Experienced Tester to join the TT team

Our team currently has an opening for an experienced tester.  We are looking for someone who has the ability to implement and execute a testing strategy for our team utilizing some of the latest Microsoft technologies (like team system and foundation
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:56 PM

MSN Messenger Outage Today

Well MSN has totally crashed today; messenger.msn.com is showing an error page an noboby seems like they can log in.  I have theory about this outage. Today is “patch Tuesday” and MS is supposed to have a number of fixes released today. 
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Wednesday, January 05, 2005 3:15 PM

My Nerd Score

Well since ryan took it I had to. It's actually about where i thought i would be.  Just your average nerd.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:42 PM

Robert Scoble Predicts The Future (almost)

This is very scary: Dec 23 - Robert makes his 2005 predictions.  They include the following statement:   11) There will be a major disaster in 2005 and mainstream media will use citizen journalists in a new way to cover the disaster.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:52 PM

How to install Cisco VPN Client on Windows 2003

I previously posted about not being able to get Cisco's VPN client installed on my Windows 2003 server machine.  Cisco says they don't support the OS so they are absolutely no help whatsoever.  However, Morten posted a comment on my last post
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Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:11 PM

Installing Cisco VPN Client on Windows Server 2003

I just installed Win2k3 server on my laptop - everything work just perfect except one thing.  Cisco's VPN client software won't even install on the machine.  It fails saying something about Virtual Adapter couldn't install or something. 
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Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:32 AM

Netflix Business Model Proved Superior?

I have been a long time subscriber / supporter of Netflix.  I absolutely hate the movie feeding frenzy that takes place at video stores.  Endless walls of replica boxes that takes forever to sift through; people rummaging through return bins
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:55 PM

Hi-Tech Shopping

Very cool video on high tech shopping in Germany.  This is definately where the industry is going (or should go).  I just wonder how much overhead is associated with this stuff.  I mean, I think people (in the US anyway) still choose the
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Monday, August 30, 2004 4:13 PM

Clearing Local DNS Cache in Windows

I was having some trouble reaching a host (whose IP I had just changed) because Windows was caching the resolution of the name.  One little call to ipconfig fixed it: ipconfig /flushdns  
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:17 PM

Outlook Rules with Exchange

Outlook rules frustrate me to no end; especially when using exchange!  I have tried and tried in the past to build a rule that would route all of the internal email sent to me into a special folder for internal communication with absolutely no success.  I
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Friday, April 02, 2004 9:02 AM

Cannot View HTML source

It's been a while since I ran into this “bug”, but the other day I trying to figure out why the images in my email were not showing up.  So I did what any normal human would do on a Wednesday and tried to do a “View Source”
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:57 PM

C# Compiler Line Limit

Well I found out today that the C# compiler only allows 2046 characters on one line.  I wonder why this is the case? Why was I putting 2046+ characters on one line you ask?  Well I was pasting in a rather large error message so I could play
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Friday, March 12, 2004 6:53 PM

Chicago area get together

Ryan and Jeff are trying to organize a series of “meets” for the chicagoloand geek contigency.  I think this is a great idea and I will definately attend as many of these as I can.   
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