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Irregular expressions regularly
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Joe versus the volcano
After reading Mark's entry about Joe versus the Volcano I decided that I'd go out and hire it for a look. Finding a video store which had it in stock wasn't that easy, even asking for it raised eyebrows - this is not surprising given that the film was released at about the same time that some of the staff who were serving me were born.
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Random quotes
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
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A lazy Saturday afternoon...
This week seemed to take forever and just felt like one of those really heavy weeks. I think that it started when I opened my mouth and spoke up against the tide of "professional demonstrators" who follow each other around and see it as their job to heckle the IE product. Then, I seemed to spend the remainder of the weekend reading every blogger take their turn to bag the crap out of a hundred or so people who have asked Microsoft not to end support of VB6 - makes you wonder really... I think that everybody must be getting restless while they wait for Beta 2 to arrive ;-)
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The Groove buy - my opinion
I think that it's because the Office team at Microsoft finally found someone else who likes Sharepoint :P
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This is what happens when you give people a soapbox
A couple of days ago, Chris Wilson wrote this about IE and standards:
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Day 4: 3 subscriptions
Three additions today, bringing my tally for the week up to 9 (including one which I made up). This is well short of a budgetted quota of 5 per day which means that I'm falling behind already. Anyhow... todays additions are:
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Day 3: added only 1 subscription
Just one subscription today as the submissions seem to be drying up...
Brad Abrams weblog
Hi Darren, Brad here, just wanted to drop my USP in for you to take a look at: -
Information Bridge
Next week I'm giving a demo on IBF (Information Bridge Framework). The IBF allows users to leverage some existing Office technologies - namely, the Research Task Pane and SmartTags - to perform interactions with line-of-business data.
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Using sprocs or ad-hoc sql
I use stored procedures "religiously" when developing data-centric applications and I'm always interested as to why people who use SqlServer would want to use ad-hoc sql; I think that the main reason is probably is the perception of "duplicating effort".
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Day 2: added 3 subscribtions
As per comments left against the USP post, I've added 3 more bloggers to my .Opml file. I think that Jeroen's USP is a little borderline in the compelling stakes but, given the lack of competition he gets in.