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When I first read Ameya’s new post regarding using Visio as a reporting tool for TFS, I thought he must have lost his mind.  However, after watching his two videos and how easy it is to provide an alternative view on data flowing from the Team Foundation data warehouse, I can see the power of this integration.  I think I’ll still be using the Excel connection to the TFS warehouse on a daily basis but I’m going to start looking for chances to use Visio as well.  Cool stuff!

Introducing Elizabeth Stahl, The Originator of the Goddess Party

See the Intro to Goddess Parties here in Quicktime

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Take the Advanced Development with the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Foundation collection, and get discounts on related e-learning courses.

Greetings from the Côte d’Obscure. Far richer in Old World settings and artist-bohemian history than in contemporary glitz and celebrity, towns like Villefranche form a Riviera hidden in plain sight, lurking quietly in the shadows of zillion-watt Côte d’Azur neighbors like Nice, Cannes and Monaco.

How do I automate the mundane aspects my life?
What sort of speakers/setup should I go with for my home theater?
How do I get rid of the brown stain on my old porcelain tub?
What’s the best way to…

HARRY RESPONDS: A principled position. But the point of the review is not Grunwald’s opinion of the books (thumbs up to The Storm and Path of Destruction, down to Brinkley and A. Cooper), but rather his well-informed overview of the history of the Corps. I’m about as principled as my cat, but I’m smart enough to know that I’m not smart enough to outsmart powerful interests like our wonderful Entertainment Industry. If I stick my neck out and make noise, I will be singled out for punishment. They’ll make an example of me unless I’m very careful. One of the dudes on a cross next to Jesus was a common thief. Remember that. They decide who is a thief. You don’t. Anyway, I commented on his response (quoted above) to my previous comment. Mr. Shearer, your point is taken. The review is worth reading in and of itself. Why not list the books on this subject that are required reading anyway? He already did that. The Storm and Path of Destruction are required reading. I’m beginning to feel like Charlie Brown pitching in the sandlot. I await Lucy’s inevitable sarcastic observation. Have you impersonated Anderson Cooper on Le Show? A single lampoon is worth a thousand blog entries. The next few paragraphs are in response to someone else’s comment about my previous comment. Yes, All the King’s Men is a novel. Never mind Gulliver’s Travels, then. Don’t bother reading Brave New World. Yes, Huey Long was a corrupt hyprocrite. He was a populist who nearly became a dictator. That was my point. I’ll read Socks on a Rooster. Thanks for the tip. I’ll pass it along. My dad is recovering from triple bypass surgery. I’ll certainly buy him a copy of Socks on a Rooster: Louisiana’s Earl K. Long by Richard B. McCaughan. After he has read it, I’ll read it myself. Deliver me from this topic. I’m a baseball player on a team that’s twelve runs behind with six innings to go. Sorry! If the Democrats win control of the House or Senate in November, every aspect of Katrina–the Corps of Engineers, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security–will be the subject of months of Congressional investigations and hearings. While reading the comments to another one of Harry Shearer’s blog entries, I learned something. He once an English teacher. So I commented on that. Mr. Shearer, if you ever decide to teach a bonehead English grammar course at Santa Monica City College, I’ll take it. “Always look on the bright side of life” - Monty Python

Kotaku has a graph up that compares the first four months for the PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube and Wii. While Wii is at the top, the second most is surprisingly the Xbox.

A "Beverage Guidance System" was published last year by a panel of experts on nutrition led by Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina. The experts, distressed by burgeoning waistlines, hoped to get people to stop drinking their calories.

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Installation View of the Summer Edition of HHS, originally uploaded by msjenbee.

As I’ve discussed extensively with the talented, gorgeous and awesome La Lux, it is a time of Bold Tings.

Over on Personism, I’ve been pretty fired up lately about the under-representation of women in tech, in art and um, rather broadly speaking creativity. Rather than pointlessly bluster, I started (you have to start somewhere) with a List of Women Speakers for Your Conference.

In other news: we’ve got a whole new crop of excellent interns here at the jb. Be on the look out for their blogging debuts. (Alice Wells made her debut on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog just the other day.)

Speaking of HHS, as previously announced: we’re accepting entries for the Fall Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! The deadline is Tuesday November 7th @ 6pm, but why wait? Apply now.

Special guest panelists this season include Amit Gupta of Photojojo fame and Joerg Colberg who writes the must-read fine-art photography blog Conscientious.

The last edition got some terrific press:

Kate Bingaman was featured on Cool Hunting.

Rob Walker of my most favoriteist NYT Sunday Magazine column, Consumed gave Ernie Button a shout-out on his blog Murketing. (Did you know he has a blog? He does and it’s good.)

Paddy Johson, of Art Fag City fame, stopped by and liked what she saw.

This is the last season of HHS for the year – we’ll be announcing the Ultras in December and their group show will open in January.

Regarding our current exhibition, Solid Ground:

On Thursday October 26 I’ll be hosting an artist talk with Holly Lynton. She’ll talk about her current exhibition, Solid Ground and we’ll ply you with booze. Not to be missed! Reception from 6pm – 8pm, artist talk at 7.

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Stát chce v roce 2008 a 2009 zmrazit peníze, které vydává za své pojištěnce na zdravotní péči. Jde hlavně o důchodce a děti, celkem o 5,8 miliónu obyvatel. Ušetří tak ročně tři miliardy korun.

Vertical integration — controlling business from fabric to customer — helps luxury houses maintain their craftsmanship.

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Traditionalists can go on and shed a tear, as it looks like we’ve found yet another suitable replacement for the tried and true newspaper. Of course, this DIY creation isn’t apt to replace the existing iterations anytime soon, but for those not interested in leaving the house to fetch a paper, here’s your solution. Crafted from an old newspaper box and utilizing a 17-inch LG Flatron LCD, a few nuts and bolts, a Mac mini, speaker system, and a fair amount of software tweaking, this digital newsstand flips through headlines in addition to cycling through slideshows, playing videos, and streaming audio. Take a closer look via video after the break.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Is Apple un-hacking user-enhanced AppleTVs?

If I’m not mistaken that’s Mike Arrington, Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble in the latest JibJab.

Good question from The Dude Abides.

CBS5-TV report on Twitter with Scoble.

News.com: “Apparently, Facebook wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard before he had a chance to take any history classes.”

The new “i’m” program that the Live team is running is truly clever. Beyond clever: it’s brilliant. Every statistic I’ve seen indicates that most people don’t contribute to charity for one reason or another — maybe they don’t have the disposable income, or to do so is too hard from a logistics standpoint, or they just never thought they could make a difference. The i’m program makes it dead-simple to do: just do what you do anyway.

I’m happy to announce today that ROTOR 2.0 has released to the web.  You can download the release here:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/sscli
ROTOR contains most of the CLR and base class libraries found in our commerical product.  It is released under the shared source program.  There are several new things in this release:

Generics implementation
Lightweight Code Generation (LCG)
Stub-based dispatch support
New reflection and reflection emit
New C# features like Anonymous Methods, Anonymous Delegates and Generics
Enjoy!

Every two years, Microsoft holds a summit for MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) - people who are recognized for their outstanding technical community participation.  They are nominated annually by their peers and Microsoft employees for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities.  Nominees are chosen from traditional and emerging community venues, including public news groups, forums, third-party web sites, user groups, book authors, event speakers, blogs, and wikis.
 
Current MVPs reside in over 90 countries, write in 30 languages, and share their expertise in over 90 Microsoft technologies. The summit is a multi-day event that primarily focuses on face-to-face interaction for the MVPs both among themselves as well as with the product teams.  To me, the two way dialog that happens as a result of this is a huge value add.   
 
Earlier this week, I spoke to a group of about 700 of the MVPs, most of whom are developers, and was happy to see all these people who are so passionate about Microsoft products and tools in one place - networking and learning more about our products.  I love the MVPs for a couple of reasons – they keep us honest (in terms of good, constructive feedback) and they are my best ambassadors with the rest of the community.  In some sense, I think about the MVPs as a core extension to my team.  The feedback that they provide is invaluable to making sure we get the right product out for our customers. 
 
Thank you for being such great community leaders.
 
Namaste!

Hearts assistant coach Stephen Frail says the players lack team spirit after the 4-0 defeat by Dundee United.

China has opened military-style boot camps to cure youngsters of addiction to online games.

I’ve been, umm, a little remiss in keeping my blog up to date.  The good news is I’ve been heads down on a new project we’ll be talking a great deal about at Mix (hope to see you there). I will be traveling to Chicago next week to speak at the .NET User’s Group (Tues Feb 20) and then at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Wed Feb 21).  Here’s my talk abstract: Client software has always striven to create an ever richer user experience. In recent years we have seen many factors come together to create exciting experiences: ubiquitous access to advanced hardware, the proliferation of rich media content, the ease of incorporating advanced graphics and media, and a dramatic increase in network bandwidth. In this talk, we will explore how the .NET team is making it easy for developers to bring these experiences to end users with technology like ASP.Net AJAX, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Visual Studio. Along the way we’ll write some code and look at some new technologies under development. Sounds a little formal.  Need to work on making my abstracts more pithy

After a highly emotional debate, the House of Representatives voted 218-212 to set a timetable for bringing American troops home. The provision calls for most troops to be out of Iraq by Sept. 1, 2008. Republicans said the measure would amount to micromanaging the war. Left, Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

MARCH 06, 2007, REDMOND — Microsoft today announced the creation of a new super-secure encryption technique, doubling previous techniques. Dubbed “ROT-26,” the new technique applies a complex mathematical algorithm recently created in Microsoft Research. The previous technique (ROT-13) was only capable of half the complexity. “This technique heralds a new day for customer privacy,” said John Montgomery, Person Who Has Nothing To Do With The Invention. “By doubling the complexity of time-honored encryption algorithm, Microsoft has enabled a new generation of software to be created.” Upon hearing of the invention, Bruce Schneier giggled and refused comment. (Yes, it’s an old joke, but it came up again today.)

Antonín Procházka letos již podruhé provedl diváky i účinkující suverénně předávacím večerem Cen Thálie. Nebyla na něm znát sebemenší tréma.

It’s already Tuesday, the official first day of the PDC.  I started the day with a nice 20 minute walk from my hotel to the LACC.  I arrived at 7:30 am and there was already a line waiting to get into the keynote hall.
The organizers ushered all the Microsoft employees into the overflow room to make sure there were plenty of good seats for customers in the main hall.  Once the keynote started and all customers were seated, they allowed Microsoft employees to fill the seats in the back.
I decided to stay in the overflow room thinking it would be more comfortable and less crowded.  Unfortunately, there were some audio problems in the overflow room. They got those fixed quickly and then we realized that instead of pumping the video and audio feed directly from the keynote hall, they were simply showing the web cast.  Therefore we didn’t get to see any of the videos…just like the folks watching the folks watching online.  Bummer.  I heard one of them was pretty funny.
After the keynote, I headed to the “Women and Technology: Dream, Code, Run” panel.  The room filled quickly with women and a handful of men. It’s rare that I am in a room talking technology with 95% women instead of 95% men.  Kinda fun.
When that was finished it was time to head to the Big Room and the Microsoft Pavilion space where the SDK team has a booth.  On the way there I bumped into Peter Mullen, Chief Software Architect for Trumba Corporation (and ex-Visio founding engineer and all around nice guy).  Peter is looking forward to learning about Yukon and Atlas at this PDC.
Hari Sekhar said that our first ILL was well attended.  Mike Mueller was the instructor.  Mike and Jeff Chrisope are sharing instructor duties for our labs.  Don’t miss it if you’re here at the PDC!
That’s all for now!
Lori PearceWindows SDK Team

Paul Wolfowitz apologized for his role in the raise and transfer of his companion, only to be greeted by booing and cries for his resignation.

Viacom filed a copyright infringement suit against YouTube, for direct infringement of the rights to reproduce, publicly perform and display, as well as for vicarious, contributory and inducement copyright infringement. Viacom seeks to enjoin YouTube from distributing copyrighted works as well as to recover moneyary damages.Viacom Int’l, Inc. v. Google, Inc. (complaint)

NY Times: Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube Video Clips: “Viacom, which has feuded publicly with YouTube and its parent Google about the unauthorized posting of its programming online, said it was seeking more than $1 billion in damages. Viacom’s suit is the most aggressive move so far by an old-line media company against the highly popular but legally questionable practice of posting copyrighted media content online.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cells that are supposed to nourish and support other nerve cells instead secrete the poisons that cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, researchers reported on Sunday.

Tony Blair has given warning that early withdrawal from Iraq would be “disastrous” and would give heart to extremists.

The suit is the most aggressive move so far by an old-line media company against the highly popular but legally questionable practice of posting copyrighted media content online.

Preston have been hit by a double injury blow with Simon Whaley set to miss the rest of the season and Paul McKenna possibly facing surgery.

In the middle of yet another heat wave, I thought you all might find this interesting:

From the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Observed Climate Trends.
Stay cool, everyone, and help your neighbors.

The Norwegian company’s charge, against a unit of Alfa Group, opened a window on one of the more cynical business practices in the former Soviet Union, and one that is believed to be widespread.

When a car company needs to create a new car, they don’t go down to the local hardware store to buy generic parts and tools, and start putting them all together.  Instead they have highly specialized factories, using customized processes and tools, designed to build a specific make and model of car.
 
When a team starts building a piece of software, the experience today is generally much more like a trip to the hardware store.  Over the last year Microsoft has been investing in Software Factories, which aim to bring the benefits of automation found in other industries to software development, resulting in improved quality, consistency and time-to-market.  A software factory is an installable package of tools, processes and guidance that extends Visual Studio and optimizes it for developing a specific type of application, like an occasionally connected client or a WCF-based service.  In practical terms, a factory provides capabilities such as wizards, templates, designers, code generation and documentation, and guides a team through the development process by surfacing tools and content appropriate to the task at hand.
 
There are two key elements to our software factory strategy.  First, we’re providing a platform that allows users to execute, customize and build software factories within Visual Studio.  Today, our software factory platform consists of the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX), Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) and Domain Specific Language Tools.  Second, we are building a number of software factories that target some of the most common enterprise application types.
 
In the 6 months since the release of our first software factory there have been over 100,000 downloads of four different software factories.  In addition to us delivering this, many of our partners including Infosys, EDS and Avanade are starting to build factories and include them in their technical strategies.  In addition, tools such as GAT and DSL Tools enable anyone to build their own factories, either using existing factories as a starting point, or starting from scratch.
 
While it will take us a number of years to completely realize the software factory vision, we hope our current generation of factories provide some great first steps towards more streamlined software development projects – and that our roadmap with Visual Studio Team System will continue this journey.
 
Namaste!

Anyone seeking the height of food fashion in Paris today would do well to visit three of the city’s most solid, appealing restaurants: La Table de Joël Robuchon, Le Pré Catelan, and Pierre Gagnaire.

“Who are you guys?” asked a team correcting their quizzes.

Hüsker Don’t won Seattlest trivia last night. They got only 4 questions wrong on the entire quiz. We overheard a couple of teams discussing paying them not to show up, and another couple discussing paying someone to ensure they can’t show up, if you know what they mean.

If there were any question: they’re back.

Who’s not back? Seattlest Seth. We don’t know what you people did to him last week, but that was apparently his final hosting gig. Public acclaim may bring him back for a final performance, but that’s really between him, his adoring fans, and his ego. And Seattlest David will be hosting just twice more before hanging up his microphone. Apparently they have “lives,” whatever those are. What will Seattlest James do? TBD, though he won’t be hosting every single week.

24 teams showed up, though one (Buttafuoco) left at halftime. Sorry you weren’t having more fun.

Next week’s user-requested round: contemporary playwrights. David hosts his penultimate quiz, so turn out and give him a round of applause.

1) Hüsker Don’t, 76 — $150!
2) Almost 40, 72 — $70!
3) Laser Rocket Arms, 71 — $20!
4) (tie) Astounding Mittens and Mittens, 64 — Mittens won the tiebreaker to choose a round theme for next week: contemporary playwrights
6) Puppies Kittens Bunnies, 63
7) (tie) Brazilian Mietze, Cheese Happy Surrender Weasels, and Jim Henson Was an Inspiration to All of NAMBLA, 62
10) Competitive Inhibition, 60
11) Tard Cocks, 58
12) (tie) The Asskickers and Bong Hits 4 Jesus, 56
14) Federated Association of Organizations, Inc., 55
15) OMG Lasers Pew Pew Pew, 53
16) Skanky Hoes, 50
17) (tie) 27-33 and Chaka Khans, 45
19) (tie) Fighting Squirrels and Psycho Killers, 42
21) Castles of Ireland, 39
22) Triple Whipple, 36
23) (tie) Toilet Epiphany and Buttafuoco — Epiphany won the swag because Buttafuoco took off early

Qs and As are on quiznight.net.

Americký Microsoft je potěšen čísly, které se týkají prodejů nového operačního systému Windows Vista. Podle analytiků již společnost prodala kolem 20 miliónů licencí k tomuto OS.

Hack, cough, cough…man, it’s getting really dusty around here…
Yeah…I know…it’s been a while…my bad.  No excuses.
Let me get straight to the new data.   The Windows SDK Team recently posted the RC1 version of the Windows SDK for Windows Vista and .NET 3.0 RC1.  You can download it here.
This summer, we welcomed 7 new team members:  Tom Archer, Karen Dominguez, Abhita Chugh, Lisa Supinksi, Sean Grimaldi, Pat Litherland and just this week, Shawn Henry.  It’s exciting to have so many new faces on the team.  I can feel the energy and enthusiams as the newbies dive in to their new roles.