Daily Archives: May 27, 2006

What lucky geeks you are! A new MSDN DCC.

MSDN has added another female Developer Community Champion to it’s ranks.

Meet  Lindsay Rutter:

Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Southern California, Virginia, West Virginia
http://blogs.msdn.com/lindsay

How many Microsoft presenters can claim they were “locked in” at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Mira Sorvino? Lindsay, for one. It’s a story you’ll have to get straight from the source. She has also produced content for a high traffic television network site and the internet division of one of America’s largest banks, where she helped to choose and implement a deployment tool for multiple data centers. Lindsay enjoys coding in C++, but admits that C# is quickly vying for her affections. She’s also proficient in Unix, Visual Studio 2005, OOD concepts, HTML/CSS, XML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, .NET, relational database concepts, and computer security and forensics tools including Autopsy and Encase 5.0. Lindsay graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, where she was part of a team that researched how to implement an Internet-capable computer lab in a school in N’Djili in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – an area that has no telephone services and receives electricity only three days per week. As a developer, Lindsay loves solving technical problems and formulating solutions that are precisely tailored to her clients’ needs.

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In the hammock

A beautiful summer-like afternoon. As I took a few minutes to laze in the hammock, I thought of all my poor city dwelling friends around the world and ran indoors to get my digital camera. For the very short (but 22MB video) click here.

 

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Oh JOY JOY – Higher Speed DSL on the mountain

I just thought to check again to see if there was a chance the “Elite DSL” 4mbps (vs. 1.2mbps or so that I’m currently getting) was actually available to my remote location. Downloading things like 3GB vista builds takes about 20 hours right now. So this will make a big difference to me.

Congratulations! Elite DSL upgrade, which provides speeds up to 4Mbps / 1Mbps is available at your location.

Click here to order Elite DSL upgrade online, or call our Customer Service

For only $5/month more.

When I was at the VTBusiness Expo on Wednesday I happened to walk by the booth for my provider (www.gmavt.net) and stopped to say “I’m a really happy customer and I just wanted to say hi!”. I wonder if they rewarded my small kindness with this? 😉

We’ll see if it’s for real. I’m signing up and maybe finish my beta2 download next week (it hung after 40% and I never went backto complete it.)



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