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December 2005 Entries

Still filtering comments: botnet spam comment attack

posted @ Saturday, December 31, 2005 10:34 AM | Feedback (0)

WMF Exploit Workaround, Protections

posted @ Saturday, December 31, 2005 7:53 AM | Feedback (13)

New Idea: "Voice Chat" on Cell Phones

posted @ Friday, December 30, 2005 5:54 PM | Feedback (1)

A-Hole of the Year Award (Kuro5hin)

posted @ Friday, December 30, 2005 5:52 PM | Feedback (0)

What Happened To The MSN Search Insider?

posted @ Friday, December 30, 2005 5:48 PM | Feedback (-2)

WhiteHouse.gov uses tracking cookies, bugs

posted @ Friday, December 30, 2005 5:24 PM | Feedback (0)

AdSense Trojan on the Loose

posted @ Friday, December 30, 2005 4:43 PM | Feedback (2)

The Million-Dollar Web Site?

posted @ Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:18 AM | Feedback (3)

How do you suppose all those side streets end up on maps?

posted @ Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:14 AM | Feedback (5)

Ten Failed Tech Trends for 2005

posted @ Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:57 AM | Feedback (0)

RIAA: Shoot Foot, Reload

posted @ Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:49 AM | Feedback (0)

BillG Poses

posted @ Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:32 AM | Feedback (0)

The NSA Compelled to Remove Tracking Cookies

posted @ Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:21 AM | Feedback (0)

Atlas Resources: Updated

posted @ Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:38 AM | Feedback (8)

MSN Video to Broadcast New York City Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration

posted @ Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:07 AM | Feedback (0)

Composite UI Application Block December Update and Hands-on-Labs Available for Download

posted @ Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:33 PM | Feedback (0)

Atlas 2005 December Preview Released

posted @ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:16 PM | Feedback (9)

Top 2006 Challenges for Microsoft

posted @ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:01 PM | Feedback (0)

Virus disguises itself as MSN Messenger beta

posted @ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 4:37 PM | Feedback (6)

Spam Free or Die Music Video (whimsy)

posted @ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:56 PM | Feedback (0)

Worst Tech Moments of 2005

posted @ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:54 PM | Feedback (0)

2005 Recap: Graphics Cards

posted @ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:47 PM | Feedback (15)

New Year's Day 2006 to be Delayed

posted @ Sunday, December 25, 2005 11:18 PM | Feedback (0)

Opera buys Opera

posted @ Sunday, December 25, 2005 10:05 PM | Feedback (0)

A method to see if your mail is being sniffed by the government

posted @ Sunday, December 25, 2005 10:02 PM | Feedback (0)

Ray Ozzie posts "Looking Back, Looking Forward"

posted @ Sunday, December 25, 2005 9:43 PM | Feedback (0)

Beware of QuickTime Content from Unknown Sources

posted @ Sunday, December 25, 2005 9:32 PM | Feedback (7)

Spam is down, but who gets the credit

posted @ Sunday, December 25, 2005 9:17 PM | Feedback (0)

San Fran Muni WiFi: Vendors invited to write their own monopoly

posted @ Sunday, December 25, 2005 8:01 PM | Feedback (3)

‘twas the Night Before: The Three Little Words

posted @ Sunday, December 25, 2005 5:37 AM | Feedback (2)

Einstein was right (again)

posted @ Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:22 PM | Feedback (1)

Financial Times (FT) Names Google Founders "Men of the Year"

posted @ Saturday, December 24, 2005 6:21 PM | Feedback (0)

Coming to an Email near you: "Spear Phishing"

posted @ Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:48 AM | Feedback (12)

Dark Video Mash of "A Christmas Story"

posted @ Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:17 AM | Feedback (0)

Create Poster-Size Prints from Digital Images

posted @ Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:03 AM | Feedback (-29)

This EU Nonsense

posted @ Friday, December 23, 2005 10:19 AM | Feedback (-2)

Bye, Bye UDDI (Registry)

posted @ Friday, December 23, 2005 9:50 AM | Feedback (1)

Service Activity Generator: Alpha 2

posted @ Friday, December 23, 2005 9:42 AM | Feedback (0)

USB Speakerphone

posted @ Friday, December 23, 2005 9:30 AM | Feedback (0)

Windows Media Center Edition Online

posted @ Friday, December 23, 2005 9:20 AM | Feedback (0)

VSTS and MS Project Add-In

posted @ Friday, December 23, 2005 8:56 AM | Feedback (-1)

Mass Speculation: Microsoft to buy Opera?

posted @ Friday, December 23, 2005 8:37 AM | Feedback (0)

'tis the Season .. To Re-Gift

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:15 PM | Feedback (12)

Self-Aware Robot?

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:02 PM | Feedback (0)

13 Reasons to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2005

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:55 PM | Feedback (3)

The Seasons Explained

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:38 PM | Feedback (2)

Deployment with ClickOnce: Sample Code

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:17 AM | Feedback (7)

Developer Potential of Office 12 for Commercial Enterprise Software

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:55 AM | Feedback (0)

10 SOA Articles

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:48 AM | Feedback (38)

FTC Declares Can-Spam a Success

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:37 AM | Feedback (0)

Microsoft Hires GUI 'Design Guru'

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:32 AM | Feedback (12)

Favorites on Live.com

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:54 AM | Feedback (0)

New Cingular SmartPhone

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:37 AM | Feedback (2)

Microsoft Sues MAPS Resellers

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:20 AM | Feedback (0)

AOL / Google deal 'a disastrous decision'

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:05 AM | Feedback (0)

Gallery of Map Projections

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Comment Filter Set on "Fry"

posted @ Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:00 AM | Feedback (0)

What to do at Grandmother's House

posted @ Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:42 AM | Feedback (-1)

The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion

posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:58 PM | Feedback (2)

User-Generated Media and the Future

posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:44 PM | Feedback (0)

Visual Studio E-Learning .. FREE!

posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:40 PM | Feedback (-1)

Updates to ASP.NET 2.0 (and Atlas!)

posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:14 PM | Feedback (0)

Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design

posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:10 PM | Feedback (2)

Mix 06 - Coming Attractions

posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:58 AM | Feedback (0)

Web 2.0 is Dead; Long Live the Web!

posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:50 AM | Feedback (0)

Battling the Bad Guys

posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:13 AM | Feedback (0)

The Tallest Buildings; now, and later

posted @ Monday, December 19, 2005 1:44 AM | Feedback (0)

My, THIS is maddening: "Escapa" (whimsy)

posted @ Monday, December 19, 2005 1:06 AM | Feedback (9)

The Gates and Bono Named Persons of the Year

posted @ Monday, December 19, 2005 12:48 AM | Feedback (0)

The JibJab Guys Wrap 2-0-5

posted @ Sunday, December 18, 2005 2:09 AM | Feedback (0)

Chris Pirillo Declares Xbox 360 a Winner

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 10:34 PM | Feedback (0)

Windows Live: Checked out http://ideas.live.com Lately?

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 3:21 PM | Feedback (9)

Windows Live: Three Services Reviewed

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 2:51 PM | Feedback (5)

SQL Server and SQL Express Command-Line Utility

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 2:21 PM | Feedback (3)

Re-design of National Archives Site

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 2:10 PM | Feedback (0)

NTP Strikes Again

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 2:05 PM | Feedback (12)

RIM Pressured to Settle

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 12:46 PM | Feedback (0)

Ads Within RSS Feeds

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 12:32 PM | Feedback (0)

Mix 06 - Mix the next web now

posted @ Friday, December 16, 2005 12:07 PM | Feedback (0)

3,000 Microsoft Jobs Announced for India

posted @ Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:53 AM | Feedback (0)

The URGE: Digital Music Service

posted @ Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:06 PM | Feedback (0)

Microsoft Partners With McDonald’s for Global Point-of-Sale Solution

posted @ Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:57 PM | Feedback (0)

Windows Live Local Service Delivers State-of-the-Art Advances for Web-Based Mapping and Local Search

posted @ Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:54 PM | Feedback (7)

Microsoft Offers New Integrated Retail Solution for Small-Business Retailers

posted @ Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:43 PM | Feedback (0)

Free Speech in the Blogosphere

posted @ Saturday, December 10, 2005 11:39 AM | Feedback (0)

Bush Regime Control will Cause the Internet to Split

posted @ Saturday, December 10, 2005 11:35 AM | Feedback (18)

ICANN Transparency Requests

posted @ Friday, December 09, 2005 3:55 AM | Feedback (0)

Media Review: The Wiggles; Dorothy the Dinosaur

posted @ Friday, December 09, 2005 3:33 AM | Feedback (2)

Media Review: “Four Brothers”

posted @ Friday, December 09, 2005 3:25 AM | Feedback (0)

The little spyware company that could

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 7:07 AM | Feedback (0)

On my list: Visit the world's tallest building

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 6:54 AM | Feedback (186)

Email Help: SNARF from Microsoft Research

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:55 AM | Feedback (0)

Moderate to severe sleep-disordered breathing can lead to stroke

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:46 AM | Feedback (152)

Managed Code in SQL Server 2005

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:39 AM | Feedback (4)

When Good Implosions go Bad

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:25 AM | Feedback (1)

Using VSTS Performance Tools to Accelerate Your Application

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:16 AM | Feedback (1)

Michael Swanson's Wallpaper Images

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:08 AM | Feedback (21)

Saturn's F-Ring is Actually a Spiral

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:04 AM | Feedback (191)

Atlas: The Microsoft Implementation of AJAX

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 4:52 AM | Feedback (6)

Simple Sharing Extensions: A Mash-up Made in Heaven

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 4:42 AM | Feedback (0)

Beta Cycle: Longer and Longer

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 4:23 AM | Feedback (16)

Health Benefits of Green Tea

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 4:06 AM | Feedback (3)

Free Audio and Video Download Site

posted @ Sunday, December 04, 2005 4:00 AM | Feedback (1)

The Digg Tree: A new way to view Digg

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:48 AM | Feedback (0)

MSConfig Walk-through

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:43 AM | Feedback (0)

Creating the Perfect 404

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:41 AM | Feedback (0)

Cheat Sheet for Subnet Calculations

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:33 AM | Feedback (1)

Free Online Multiplayer Games

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:30 AM | Feedback (0)

ICANN puts hold on .XXX Domain Suffix

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:26 AM | Feedback (174)

Yahoo Mail adds Beta RSS Feeds

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:19 AM | Feedback (0)

The MySpace Generation

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:07 AM | Feedback (184)

Vista Restart Manager

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:01 AM | Feedback (0)

Kids in Seoul

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 6:56 AM | Feedback (0)

Snow in Seoul

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 6:53 AM | Feedback (1)

My Little Treasures

posted @ Saturday, December 03, 2005 6:52 AM | Feedback (0)

Beginner's Guide to Securing a PC

posted @ Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:19 PM | Feedback (-1)

MSConfig Walkthrough

posted @ Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:12 PM | Feedback (0)

New Orleans to deploy city-wide wireless internet

posted @ Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Air Force "Phaser"

posted @ Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:14 PM | Feedback (0)

Massachusetts Reconsiders Microsoft Office with Open Document Standards

posted @ Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:11 PM | Feedback (10)

ASP.NET 2.0 Security Articles

posted @ Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:04 PM | Feedback (0)

The opinions expressed herein are my own and are not intended to represent those of my employer.