Monthly Archives: November 2005

Words of Wisdom from Steve Pavlina

15 Nov 2005
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What Will Other People Think of You?


Steve is one of my favorite bloggers.

XBox 360 – backward compatibility

15 Nov 2005
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Original XBox games playable on the XBox 360

Found here.


Hmmm…..Doom 3 and Return to Castle Wolfentstein aren’t on the list.

Great new blog: Wall Street Programmer

11 Nov 2005
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this is a great blog, even though he’s only got 4 posts up.


I love this quote:
“Wall Street is the $5 hooker of the IT profession; everyone thought about it, many have experienced it.“


found via Ian Landsman.

Better late than never: The Detroit Launch event

11 Nov 2005
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I’m a few days late getting this posted, but sometimes other things in life take precendence.




So, my friend Mike and I arrived at the event around 7am.

Coming to a mens’ room near you?

11 Nov 2005
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I found this picture (safe for work) on Julie Lerman’s blog.

New samples from Microsoft

11 Nov 2005
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From Chris Sells:


“The Windows Forms team has posted .NET 2.0 versions of their UI clone apps


Be aware…the sames are under a “shared source” license and there doesn’t appear to be a way to view screenshots or previews before agreeing to the license / downloading the samples.

Link Dump for Wednesday, November 9, 2005

09 Nov 2005
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Later today I’ll post about the VS.NET 2005/SQL Server 2005/BizTalk Server 2006 Launch Event in Detroit.


Charlie Poole has an interesting

What’s New in C# 3.0

07 Nov 2005
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Sahil Malik wrote a great article about what’s coming up in C# 3.0.

The Detroit Chapter of the ICCA is closing

02 Nov 2005
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It’s been about two years since we started the chapter.

Apps that grab focus

02 Nov 2005
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Nick Hodges has a great rant titled “Uncontrolled Irritation”.


This is