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Bill Gates was right about spam

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In 2004 BillG made a statement that spam will be solved in two years. In 2008 I can prove that it is. Here's how my Inbox looks today. That's 19,326 spam ...

Copy Paste Unformatted Text in Word

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I was reading this old series of posts on the whole Office Ribbon bar design (quite a fascinating from a developer perspective). I came across the comments ...

Oh MSDN Language Filter

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For the love of god why is the language filter on MSDN a list of checkboxes that default to ALL languages. You'd expect the guys at MSDN to have figu...

Un-MVP’ed

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It had to happen. Two years ago I made a conscious decision to make my family the center of my universe and my #1 priority. Joshua is now 16 months and Rafa...

Creating HTML Signatures on Outlook 2007

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Outlook 2003 had a nice feature that allowed you to create a signature from an HTML file. This went missing in Outlook 2007 and a google search for Outlook ...

GMail is SCREAMING fast on FireFox 3 Beta 4

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I've been using FireFox 3 beta 3 for quite some time and was pretty happy with it. Fired up FF today and was prompted with a nice upgrade button. They&#...

DasBlog to BlogML Converter

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A couple of people have emailed me asking for the GUI version of the dasBlog to BlogML import / exporter, so I thought it best to share it with everyone. Yo...

Merill on Politics and Sri Lanka

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Lately I haven't blogged much about politics but this post by Indi word for word matches my feelings on this topic.

SQL Server Data Services

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With SQL Server Data Services, it looks like Microsoft is finally entering the foray that Amazon's S3 service provided. As a Microsoft developer the bes...