Congrats to Dr. Neil for launching ViaVirtualEarth, which will tap into the power of MSN’s Virtual Earth.
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Virtual Earth is launched (well, almost)
There was a sneak peak of virtualearth.msn.com this weekend, but it’s not quite ready yet. Hopefully tomorrow. Chandu Thota, on the Virtual Earth team, explains.
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A Windows Vista joke
“‘ctrl-alt-del’ will now be known as : ‘hasta la vista’”
From Inside Microsoft (by way of Alex Barnett)
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Sam Gentile in Ireland
It looks like Sam is getting to do something that we rarely get to do when we travel on business – playing tourist. He’s gone from one extreme to another.
3 meter high waves hit Banda Aceh today
http://feeds.indonesianews.net/?rid=8bd09717ce894532&cat=f9295dc05093c851
This is a result of a reported 7.3 earthquake in the Nicobar Islands that was causing worry of potential Tsunamis in Indonesia. (http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=972471)
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Egypt Bombings
(I wrote this on Saturday and held off on posting this. Finally someone blogged about Egypt! Why are we so damned used to killings in the Middle East/Africa region?)
London 7/7: 4 bombs, 50+ killed, 700+ injured The western world goes crazy
Egypt 7/22: 3 bombs, 80+ killed, 200+ injured: all quiet on the western front (so far). It’s already fallen off of the CNN headline news in favor of more info about the London bombers – well actually about the completely unconnected person that the police killed.
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Hey Microsoft Press – I can find your books more easily on Amazon than on your site!
Microsoft Press, gimme a search, please????
I am trying to find a link to a book, and have to drill into subject area and make guesses as to where it would be. I have already drilled in to about 5 levels and still don’t konw if I”m on the right path to find the book.
Why not do a search at least by author and book title in addition to the “categorical drill down”?
I give up. I’m going to just link to it on Amazon.
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Vermont IT jobs: Web Application Developer (.NET)
Global Garage Sale.NET in Winooski, Vermont is growing fast! They are very hot EBay reseller and are looking for:
“…someone to write a piece of web-based database driven software for in-house, and another version to franchise our business. Thanks again! “
This is a full time, in-house position.
Contact Peter & Erik at ggsnet@globalgaragesale.net
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Joy chimes in on Windows new name
Windows Vista?!?!? What the hell were they thinking in Redmond? Apple gives us sexy, cool sounding names like Tiger and Panther and then Microsoft chimes in with something that sounds like GM’s latest failure. [Confessions of a G33k]
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Downloading Help files (CHM) from the Web
This has confused me for a while and I just realized the solution. A few weeks ago I tried to download the Sharepoint help documentation which si a CHM file. I could never read it. The contents were there (on the left) but the actual documentation would not appear.
The problem, I just realized when I downloaded another CHM a few minutes ago, is that the content is blocked because it was downloaded from the internet. If you look at the properties of the file, you will see that you can unblock the file very easily! I just never thought to look at that before now. Duh. 🙂
Just unblock it and you will be good to go!
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