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Life

That’s how health works

It’s stuff like this that makes e-mail fun at work.

Tim e-mailed to let the SharePoint team know he was working at home sick, this was the exchange we had…

Tim:

Hi Team,

I’m going to stay at home with the germs. I heard that it was a popular pastime for the team these past couple weeks.

Tomatoes are not to blame! Please, don’t turn against them.

And don’t worry too much about me; I took a vitamin (Flintstones COMPLETE [More COMPLETE with Choline]) , so everything should be fine.

Sincerely,
-Tim

Reeves:

Since Fred is bigger than Barney is he more nutritious?

Tim

I’d have to assume that Fred’s additional mass of chalk and artificial sweetner contributes no nutritional value.

I imagine molds of many characters, each receiving the same miniscule scoop of vitamins and minerals, moving down a conveyer to a second, varying-sized treatment of filler.

I don’t know if they do anything to even out the nutritive content. Perhaps they’re all liquids that eventually bake or cool.

When they’re formed, they go into a bottle and then I eat them.

That’s how health works.

You want to know the rest of what’s in Flintstones?

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Life

This is the type of stuff I think about in the morning

I had a glass or orange juice then brushed my teeth.  Ah, refreshing.

Why does it taste horrible if I drink orange juice after I brush my teeth but it’s tasty when I brush my teeth after I drink orange juice?

Oh, turns out the orange juice I like is made by Coca Cola company… who knew?

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SharePoint

A Reference Library For SharePoint Developers

If you’re looking for a great starting place for finding SharePoint information, then check out the SharePoint Learning Resources site.  It’s a searchable resource for both developers and IT workers and even offers feeds so you can stay up to date on the latest additions.

Perhaps this weekend I’ll curl up with a warm laptop and do a little light reading.

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Life

Inbox Zero!

image This is much more exciting to me than it is to the rest of the world.  I have cleared my inbox and my workload is now tracked by my task list.

Why is this good?  It now means that I’m not using my inbox to figure out what I need to do next.  Why is that bad?  Because the contents of my inbox are controlled by everyone else more than they are controlled by me… makes it hard for me to be in control of my tasks.

Now I need to actually get the stuff done.  The upside is I know what the stuff is.

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Weird

The sky is falling!

Ah, it’s that time of year again… announcements of fake stuff. 

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I do however, really want an Xbox wireless helmet.

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Travel

You know it’s time…

Yesterday after sitting on the beach for the morning I started getting anxious.  I wanted to get home to get to work on our house and dig into projects at work.  Perfect timing, I guess it’s time to go home.

 
Paula and Reeves enjoying a fruity drink on the beach.

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Travel

Ahh… vacation

As is becoming the trend lately, Paula is the first to post… so I refer you to her blog for details.

For those of you at work, don’t worry, I’ve already forgotten your names.

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Music

My new favorite way to listen to music: Pandora

I love listening to music, I have gigabytes of tracks stored on my Home Media Server but there’s a catch: who has time to look through nearly twenty-thousand tracks to pick out just the right grouping of songs? 

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Enter Pandora, a fantastic streaming music service which takes a song or artist as input and then creates a steaming radio station based off the musical “genes” of your choice (for more, see The Music Genome Project).  It’s fantastically easy, and it’s free to listen from your computer.  Try it out, you don’t even need to create an account to start listening.  Genius!

The whole experience is really quite slick.

  • Land on the home page and you’re prompted to enter a track or artist… no login to get started!
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  • Playing music to fit your mood is as easy as picking a song or artist.  Let’s say I’m in the mood for some Yes, type in to the box, click “create” and Pandora sez: 
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  • Sweet, what about the rest of the songs?  Next track is Pink Floyd:
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  • You can rate each song, telling Pandora to play more like it, or not play that song anymore on that station.  You can also look up why any song is playing if you’re curious.
  • While it’s free to listen to on the web you can also pay a nominal fee for Pandora goodness on your other devices.  For example, if you have a Sonos or Squeezebox you can pay $36 a year to stream custom, commercial-free radio stations around your house.

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While Pandora is almost magical, it isn’t infallible. 

  • If you listen for a long time (several hours) you’ll start hearing repeats. 
  • Pandora sometimes seems to get its wires crossed… our Dixie Chicks station will occasionally play Corn or Guns ‘N Roses.  Huh?

It’s also worth noting that Pandora doesn’t allow you to play any song you like at any time (like Napster), but that also allows them to have pricing more like satellite radio.

Now what I’d like to see is Pandora for my own music.  Let me pick a track then have Pandora create a play list I can sync to my portable media player.

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Friends

Jason continues to live in infamy

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It looks like there’s going to be an attempt to resurrect BattleBots on ESPN, but apparently, without Jason.  Jason did point out, however,  Popular Mechanics choose to mention him before Carmen Electra in their article.  SNAP!

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Weird

Bill Gates’s last day at work

I guess this was shown during the CES keynote this year, but I just saw it for the first time while watching the keynotes for the MS Office SharePoint Conference this AM.