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Long before I joined the company, Brad Abrams was one of the first people for me that put a human face on Microsoft. I felt sad when I just read his blog post that Brad is leaving Microsoft . But at the same time I feel happy for all that he has accomplished...
My first blog post with the title UPC sucks is the #1 hit on Bing and the #5 hit on Google. Unfortunately it is time to add another such post. UPC is a cable company that has a monopoly on cable tv in large parts of the Netherlands. I have two UPC mediaboxes...
Yesterday I worked on a new version of my FlickrMetadataSynchr tool and published the 1.3.0.0 version on CodePlex . I wasn’t really planning on creating a new version, but I was annoyed by the old version in a new usage scenario. When you have an itch...
Ever since the internal unveiling of Windows Azure as project “ Red Dog ” at our internal TechReady conference in July 2008, I’ve been very interested in this Software+Services platform. Technical strategist Steve Marx from the Windows Azure team recently...
Sometimes it’s attention to detail that excites me the most. I just noticed the beautiful rendering of PNGs with transparency in the Pictures Library view in Explorer in Windows 7 ( RC build ): You can get this view by selecting Arrange by Month in the...
Since last week I have a new digital SLR camera: a 15 megapixel Canon EOS 50D . With it I took my first photo set with Photosynth in mind. I am very happy with the result: 98 photos that are 100% synthy (meaning that they all connect into one seamless...
For the last week, I have been in love with Photosynth . It was a tech preview in view-only mode for quite a while, but now we finally released it to the masses. I've created three synths from existing pictures, i.e., from pictures I took without...
Yesterday evening I found that McDonald's is discriminating against the car-impaired. I am currently in Seattle for the Microsoft TechReady conference. After a photo walk with two colleagues we were getting thirsty and hungry. I managed to stay out...
It depends on the situation if I self-identify as a geek or not. Today, I thought it would be fine, so I signed up for the Geek Dinner organized by Scott Hanselman in Bellevue, WA . Quite a lot of people showed up. I went there with my colleague Erwin...
Best wishes to everyone for 2008! In the first day of the new year, I've released version 0.9.0.0 of my Flickr Meta Synchr tool . You can always find the latest version on CodePlex . I had been working on this new version for a while now, but didn't...
During the lunch break Carlo and I walked around the Microsoft Corporate Campus in Redmond. It is autumn here as well. Lots of deciduous trees are shedding their leaves. The campus now shows lots of shades of red and yellow on leaves. I took some pictures...
One of my post popular blog posts deals with problems I was having with the stability of Windows Vista. I had major problems hibernation and sleep modes on my Dell PC. My PC never reliably went to sleep or hibernation and crashed either during going to...
Scott Guthrie did a major announcement on his blog yesterday: Microsoft will be releasing the source code for most .NET Framework libraries with the release of Visual Studio 2008. There will even be integrated support for debugging into framework classes...
I had taken this online typing test before on a laptop while sitting on the couch. Tonight I was sitting behind behind my desktop computer and decided to retry the test, because Dennis posted his results. It feels a bit like a "who's got the...
I regularly sync my Windows Mobile phone with Outlook 2007 using ActiveSync/Vista Sync Center. I don't know what causes this, but every so often I end up with duplicate contacts and calendar items. This happens especially with recurring items like...
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