Uh oh.. so I’m up at 5am because it’s 8am at home and I can’t sleep, so I figured I’d go over what sessions to attend today. Unfortunately the session list requires me to log in, and their Passport integration seems to be broken: “The Microsoft Passport Network is unavailable from this site”. Hope this […]
Made it to LA. Found the hotel, found the convention center, got my badge. I had one near disaster, that created some inconvenience on the way here. One of the last things I did with the laptop was compress a lot of files on the C: drive. I basically right-clicked drive C, selected Compress, and […]
I scheduled this entry to appear at the moment my plane takes off for the PDC. I have to be at the airport before 6am, which will be 3am relative to the time I’ll be going to bed tomorrow night. Going to be a long day. I’ve never been able to sleep on airplanes, so […]
I’m listed on the PDC Bloggers site so maybe someone there will see this… I want to bring my Vonage adapter and plug in a POTS phone into it in the hotel room. I’m wondering if VoIP will work over whatever Internet access the hotel gives you. Anyone there reading this who can say?
I’m reading Clayton Christensen’s book, The Innovator’s Dilemma (in Reader – I bought the eBook), and it’s an interesting read. It looks at the history of the hard drive market in incredible detail, and tries to determine why so many companies have come and gone in the hard drive market over the last 30 years. […]
So I believe I mentioned I’m going to the PDC. It’s only a week away. I’m very much looking forward to it. It’s also going to be nice spending a few extra days in Los Angeles.
Here’s something I didn’t know about: the Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy service. I knew NTFS supported this, but I didn’t know it’d made it all the way out to the GUI. I’ve had Google Desktop Search save my bacon the way the VSC service promises to (since it keeps it’s own cache of what […]
Vista, to the end user, will probably look a lot like Windows XP with a bit of a UI refresh, but there’s a whole lot going on under the scenes that only developers will appreciate. Win32 has been how you write Windows software since Windows 95 (and that was based on Win16) – from the […]
The Monad guys are blogging. Monad is the future of command shells. It’s one of the more innovative things Microsoft has done, and I’m really looking forward to a final release. Monad is different, so the more samples posted that show how to do cool things easily, the better.
I’m going to the PDC.