January 2006 - Posts
My name is James Shaw and I'm addicted to email. I'm a big GTD fan, and if you have a growing pile of papers on your desk or more than 10 emails in your Inbox you should try it. My Inbox is usually empty. That's great, but it's mainly due to a much-worse
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Yesterday longtime GRRA Foster Mom Jill brought around two 8 week old puppies for us to look at and introduce to our Aussie Cody. We instantly loved the girl called Fallon (now Maggie). She's settling in well and her first night went very well. I only
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Uh-oh. I dropped my phone and it doesn't work any more. I feel strangely liberated. I went drag racing yesterday without it and couldn't be reached by phone or email. I didn't check my email for 24 hours, can you imagine?? Luckily, prices
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My first movie. I had some fun in MovieMaker too, but I haven't put any time into making it more web-friendly so it's still a WMV that you'll have to download and play locally in Media Player. I'm sure if I look I can find a bunch of better
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A couple of years ago Scott Guthrie mentioned at dinner one evening that his goal was to encourage hosting companies to offer ASP.NET hosting with SQL Server for under $5 a month. It seemed quite unlikely to me that it would happen without MSFT subsidizing
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4865792066656C6C6F77206765656B203B2D292049206B6E657720796F7520677 5797320636F756C646E2774207265736973742E204274772C2069742773206D79 20626972746864617920746F6461792100 Tomorrow I'm going to the strip with Charles' brother Alec. He's trailered his '55 down
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..or is a mannequin? Either way, this strikes me as a slightly weird picture to promote your product with. Kinda like a mannequin-rapist-slasher movie poster. I find this deeply disturbing. Or did I just have too much coffee today? ASP.NET 3.5 Web Hosting:
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In the spirit of GTD I have to do a brain dump here every so often. There are a lot of small bloggable items that aren't worth blogging seperately. Here they are: Many of the Community Server (CS) team had fun at the weekend, myself ncluded, writing CS
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On Saturday we submitted an application to adopt a Golden Retreiver from the Golden Retreiver Rescue of Atlanta (GRRA). Our Australian Shepherd Cody would like someone to play with (at least we hope so!) I was very surprised in the first place that anyone
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As Wally tipped me off, Skype 2.0 is available and now includes video amongst other things. I don't yet have a webcam, but I'm intrigued enough to look for one. One feature stood out for me - the ability to list your contacts in groups. Since
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TiVo does take some getting used to. It's so weird not sitting down to watch a show when you know it's on. There were a few problems finding a reliable IR code (on one occasion it would only change to channels that didn't have a 6 in them), but I found
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Wow, this is the biggest news I've heard for a long time. Bigger than me changing jobs, bigger than Telligent buying Dozing Dogs. Huge, and I want to be the first to shout it out! Fellow Telligenti PM Terri Morton sneaked me her good news on IM a few
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Setup was EASY! Even the clunky looking IR to change channels on my cable box works. It'll take a few days to get used to the new Guide - I have to teach my young kids how to change Guide to Filter All on Children - but generally the Guide is much better
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I took the easy way out. With one day to go before all the post-Christmas sales expire, I went to the local Circuit City and got a Tivo for $49.99 (after $150 rebate). The rebate expires tomorrow (as do rebates on lots of products, IIRC Sirius radio is
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I got the email yesterday telling me that I'm still an ASP.NET MVP for the 3rd year. Awesome, thanks Ben! ASP.NET 3.5 Web Hosting: 3 Months FREE + FREE Setup - CLICK HERE!
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UPDATE: ALL GONE!! You can stop grovelling now.. Like all Microsoft MVP's, I was recently stunned to receive a small package from Microsoft that contained three metal tokens that we can give away to friends, family, good causes etc. What's special about
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