PRK: Week 53
On December 6th, 2010, I voluntarily let someone stick a laser in my eye with hope of being able to get 20/20 vision without glasses or contacts for the first time since 1982. One year in, the story...
View ArticleUh... What?
Petition: No Netflix Parties, No Way. Target: Petition for Microsoft to bring back Netflix Parties. Sponsored by: The Community. On December 6th, 2011, Microsoft updated its dashboard to the metro...
View ArticleJust Sayin'
I'm trying to stay away from blogs and Twitter this week. Facebook seems to be safe for some reason, but the rest of the intertubes are in an uproar over some bits and pieces about the proliferation of...
View ArticleSharpMT 3.5
After another three years, I've decided that I should a change to SharpMT... I could have made the changes to the version at Codeplex but I decided to do it on my own local code base (and share the...
View ArticleSharpKeys 3.5
SharpKeys is a Registry hack that is used to make certain keys on a keyboard act like other keys. For example, if you accidentally hit Caps Lock often, you could use this utility to map Caps Lock to a...
View ArticleOH NOES! IT'S FRIDAY!
It's the first Friday in Lent and for the second year in a row, I missed Big Steak Thursday! /sigh Happy Ninth Annual Big Steak Thursday to all!
View ArticleStudy Group?
MSN Now: More students are turning to prostitution to pay debt Should I be conflicted by this? Hard to say. I mean, back when I was in school - you know, before they invented color and the world was...
View ArticleOuch - TXT Edition
MSN: Clay and Shauna Sauer, still grieving over their 18-year-old daughter's Jan. 12 death, have become lobbyists in their home state to urge the state legislature to pass a ban on texting while...
View ArticleFREEEEEDOOOOOM!
Drove to work this morning... Didn't stop at Bellevue Square mall. Didn't stop at Best Buy. Didn't even stop at Target. I'm not obsessively looking at the UPS status page for delivery notices, because...
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Dollar Shave Club
Earlier this month I saw an ad campaign go viral across Facebook: a guy claiming that they could best Gillette in terms of razors. Something Schick has been trying to do for years and continuously...
View ArticleCustomer Service? I Think They Discontinued That Model
I have a stone in my shoe and you know what that means... Vent the stone.For the last couple of months I've been searching for a new car to lease. Pretty simple demand: small car and not too expensive....
View ArticleOn The Cutting Room Floor
MSN: Facebook guessing game: What's it really worth? The problem underpinning analysts' various numbers is the uncertainty about Facebook’s growth prospects. [...] "We still believe the company is...
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AGILE2012: Guess Who's Speaking?
Come see James Waletzky and I give a talk about Agile with the an experience report called "Slow Down to Go Fast: Lessons Learned Shipping Bing Voice Search on Xbox" . For more information on the...
View ArticleExcel: Conditionally Highlight a Whole Row
Sometimes I come across something that I know I'll want to remember and I have to store it somewhere... it's often here.To conditionally highlight a whole row based off one cell value, consider the...
View ArticleWindows 8 Tip: Initial List of Tips
It's a little early for people to have Windows 8 at this point, but it's been released to MSDN, so it's fair game... and I'm in my third week of using the bits so I've got some tips. One thing I've...
View ArticleAll The News That's Fit To Tint, Redux
Was watching TV with Jolene the other day and caught a story on the news... the gist of the story was that - for the first time - a mother, father, and son were all going to be deployed to active duty....
View ArticleAll Hail Nordstrom
Was in downtown Seattle yesterday and noticed that the majority of the display windows at Nordstrom were papered over, from the inside, showing no product. In the center of the windows was a large sign...
View ArticleHome Theater Gets Better and Better
MSN: After years of battling mobile devices, some venues are finally encouraging their use. Right. Because after spending $10 to get into a theater to watch a movie, I want to be distracted by someone...
View ArticleCold Hearted?
MSN: Mass Twitter protest honors dead Internet activist Call me cold hearted but I'm not overflowing with outrage that a young man has hung himself, while awaiting a trail for federal charges.Yes, this...
View ArticleWindows 8: RSS-based Desktop Theme Fix
One of the things introduced with Windows Vista Ultimate was the notion of having RSS-based themes that would continuously update your background with new images from the Intertubes. They worked on...
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