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The .NET Celebrity Auction on Ebay

Jan 23, 2005  •  1 min read  •  Richard Hundhausen

The .NET Celebrity Auction for Aceh Aid at IDEP Thirty of the top consultants and trainers in the worldwide .NET community have come together to help raise money for an organization that is doing …
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Welcome to Martin Danner

Jan 23, 2005  •  1 min read  •  Richard Hundhausen

Martin Danner (web site) of Arrowrock has agreed to assist us in developing Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) for Visual Studio Team System (VSTS).  He's an expert in process methodologies, UML …
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Lightning was the codename for the CLR

Jan 23, 2005  •  1 min read  •  Richard Hundhausen

Rich Hundhausen (blog) showed me a great site today.  It's http://bink.nu/CodeNames.bink.  It's got all (or nearly all) of the MS codenames for their various products.  Fun site to …
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Paint.NET version 2.1

Jan 20, 2005  •  1 min read  •  Richard Hundhausen

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP or 2000. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from …
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Life

Long Tail Blog

Jan 19, 2005  •  1 min read  •  Richard Hundhausen

I noted the concept of the "Long Tail" in a recent post.  Looks like the author of the piece in Wired has an extensive blog that covers many, many instances.  It can be found at …
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The Long Tail

Jan 15, 2005  •  2 min read  •  Richard Hundhausen

Total sales of unpopular items often exceed total sales of popular items.  Consider some stats from a recent article in Wired magazine.  The average Barnes & Noble carries 130,000 …
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Innumeracy

Jan 15, 2005  •  2 min read  •  Richard Hundhausen

<mathGeek> The Associated Press (AP) quotes (evidently without analysis) numbers from National Coalition of the Homeless.  They claim that there are 3.5 million homeless in the US.  …
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