Unleash the mimes!

Forget the death penalty – if you want to alter people's behavior, sic a mime on them:

Another innovative idea was to use mimes to improve both traffic and citizens' behavior. Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across the road would be tracked …

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When Self-Selecting Polls Attack

Sys-Con is running  a poll on “The Top 20 Software People In The World” which is silly but harmless. The funny thing though is that Don Ferguson, head of IBM's Software Group Architecture Board, has garnered more than 3300 votes so far. Oh, okay, so how many does, say, Alan …

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Happy Solstice!

I'm so happy to have moved somewhere where I don't get winter blues...

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MS' Domain Specific Languages Toolkit Updated

::: {.Section1} Via [DevHawk], news that Microsoft has shipped a new release of the DSL toolkit. That’s good news, as the previous version was really just a visual shell. The new version includes the tools for code generation, which is a crucial function. :::

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jkontherun suddenly invisible?

I'm still getting jkontherun in my aggregator, but his page's are showing up without content when I click through (doubly troubling since he only aggregates summaries). I can't find a contact link on his site (maybe it's in the missing content). Anyone else having trouble with him? If anyone knows …

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Tablets and kids

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Mike Torres discovers how quickly kids catch on to Tablets. Agreed. v[ia]{style="font-style:italic"}
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+1. My nieces and nephews [love]{style="font-style:italic"} my Tablet. I’ve seen a concept drawing from Microsoft on a Tablet ruggedized for child use (tethered pen, ability to survive …

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Best of the Blogs: VS Tools for Office 2003

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Kevin Schuler and Drew Robbins have compiled a list of dozens of the best VSTO blog entries in 2003 across seven categories ranging from architecture to troubleshooting. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]

Every year for the past several, I’ve thought that Office programming …

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Microsoft is building a managed-code OS

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Singularity is a cross-discipline research project in Microsoft Research building a managed code operating system. This technical report describes the motivation and priorities for Singularity. Other technical reports describe the abstractions and implementations of Singularity features.  [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Microsoft Research Publications]

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Microsoft is building a managed-code OS

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Singularity is a cross-discipline research project in Microsoft Research building a managed code operating system. This technical report describes the motivation and priorities for Singularity. Other technical reports describe the abstractions and implementations of Singularity features.  [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Microsoft Research Publications]

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Code Camp Manifesto

My Developer Evangelist Thom Robbins has laid down the Code Camp Manifesto. This is yet another proud example of the NE Area Community leading in the world of .NET and Microsoft related community activities. Bravo. BTW, here is the Code Camp site.  [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Sam Gentile's Blog]

Hmmm …

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