Author: ShanV
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Do yourself a favor and install the new MSN Toolbar and Desktop Search
http://beta.toolbar.msn.com/ After running the Google toolbar for a long time, I switched to the new MSN toolbar with desktop search on my work machine. After using it for several weeks, I can attest that this is a great package of software and it’s still only beta! I’m now installing it on my home machines —…
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Goodbye 2004 . . . and good riddance.
For a second year in a row I’m glad the previous year is gone. 2003 was hell for me thanks to school, weekly commuting to Seattle from SF for work, two new teams at Microsoft and my Haas MBA classes. I thought 2004 would turn the page with school completing and me getting some traction…
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Dick and Trina are engaged!
… and they let a week go by before posting it! The “blog silence” led me to believe something was up. Congratulations!
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Bill Gates comes to Silicon Valley
Bill Gates came to Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus on October 1 to give a quick talk on stuff going on in the company, our strategy, etc. One neat thing about Microsoft is that BillG and SteveB come talk to employees and there is no holds barred Q&A. I asked Gates a question about the increase…
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Retroblogging
If someone hasn’t coined this term yet, let me take the credit. Retroblogging is the act of blogging about stuff that you’ve been meaning to get around to blog about. Extra credit if your blogging software lets you set the date of your retro posts back to when you originally wrote or meant to write…
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Digging out…
I think I’m finally starting to get back to the things that were put on hold for the past three years with my evening MBA at Berkeley and crazy work. I was in Italy for a week, my desk and files are tamed, I’m playing more jazz, I’m going out every now and then on…
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Here we go
After over a year of an asp error on my home page, I finally figured it was time to give dasBlog a try again.