for the next month and a half. when the snow is starting to fall. Uuuuugh!

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Thanks to James for pointing at this hilarious BoingBoing article on MSN Spaces and an odd mix of vocabulary checks.

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As per Hervey.

Service Pack 2 is final and available on MSDN.

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When the server is owned by Wintellect.

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everyone on the WebData XML Team either left or has gone back into an unknown hole to not be found. That is another problem for another day (not people leaving, but who is left and where are they?). 

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in my webstats:

Most active organization

airproducts.com

66387

12.59%

spammin' bastahds

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Chris Pels and I have become board members for INETA, joining INETA founder Bill Evjen, Keith Pleas, Dave Noderer, Keith Franklin and Brian Loesgen. Chris and I are co-chairs for the User Group Relations committee and we are very lucky to have many awesome people on the committee that we will be able to shift the reigns to. Here's Bill's blog post on the subject.

I'm sure Amy Sorokas Mougeotte won't mind my pasting this from an April 2002 email she sent which was the first time I had heard of INETA. Amy was working for SAMS and I was registering Vermont.NET to their User Group Book Club.

Has your group joined INETA yet? http://www.ineta.org

Thanks Amy! Amy now works for Microsoft in a job where she is very involved with INETA, so we will continue to work together.

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It wasn't long ago that Klaus Aschenbrenner was puzzled by a mystery

Now he has a mystery of his own for us to wonder about! 

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Funny you should mention it, Dare. I signed up for a space and started playing with it to see if I could jam msn spaces into BLInk! Best I could see is emailing them using the mobile settings. So I can do that from BLInk! but not sure if it's worth the effort since you can just use Outlook!

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Loren Heiny is a developer who totally get's tablets! His circuit drawing application wow's me in the same way that XThink does. It helps me think out of the box of data entry applications.

Loren has a short powerpoint deck, but one of the slides actually has an animated demo where you can see this thing in action. You can get to it from here. I have already forwarded it to a friend who is the associate dean of UVM's Engineering School (who has handy access to a tablet).

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I know that people have asked me in the past about being able to annotate PDF's with ink. Was it Scott? Anyway, I see from here, that one of the top 10 apps in the Think in Ink contest does just that. GRAHL PDF Annotator. Check it out.

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yeah - Peter Rysavy's blogging again with his rapid fire posts and great insights. He's happy to see Tablet PC ISV Business Development lead Frank Gocinski blogging (as all of us tablet geeks are!), thrilled with the promise of the Tablet PC Gaming SDK and more. He even has a new domain "Peter on Tech"! I'm not the only one whose happy to see him posting again! Larry and Loren have also commented. I like Peter's point about Microsoft's persistence with the TabletPC. Frank and many others believe in this technology with all of their hearts and are fighting an uphill battle in terms of marketing. Eventually, Tablets will be laptops, laptops will be tablets and digitizers on the desk will be commonplace.

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Scott Reynolds is playing with BLInk! and came up with a few things none of us had ever done. One I need to fix quickly which is related to not entering your credentials in properly in the settings.

The others are just to feed his habits and make it the perfect blogging application. All great ideas for a wish list. I have to be careful because it's very tempting to just focus on that program, but I need to do my real work, too!

What I love is that the whole program was designed for a tablet, but then I realized I could use it very handily on a desktop. So Scott was asking for keyboard shortcuts! LOL. BUt that tells me, it really is a flexible app if it has lots of features that make it very tablet friendly, but is that close to being a good blogging app. One thing that is affecting him is he has used other blogging tools. I haven't. I just made it be what I wanted. But it will evolve. Of coures, first I owe Bliz some spell checking and apparently, I owe it to myself as well for my frequent typos!

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In listing the "new MSN bloggers", Robert lists Dare Obasanjo as "Dare Obansajo (program manager on backend)". I shivered at the prospect of Dare having anything to say about my back end. I bet he would whip me back into shape quickly, but it would mean lots less programming and lots less blogging and probably a little bit of whining!

Actually, the real news is the website that these blogs are on! spaces.msn.com. It looks very wallopy (which makes sense since Wallop is Microsoft's research project and spaces is probably coming from that research). Though Wallop is on a very different level. But still, msn is for the masses, so spaces will bring blogging and social computing to the masses. Very cool. This looks big!

Read more here on [one of] Dare's [other] blog[s]

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My friend Judy died in August after having lived with HIV for about ten years. She had survived many many years using only homeopathic remedies, chinese medicine and herbs and her incredible brain, though she did have to give in to everyone's pleading and go with allapathic treatments over the last six years or so. People are not used to the idea of women having AIDS. Today's World AIDS Day made a point of focusing on the fact that there are also a lot of women who have AIDS. To me the message that is relayed in the images to the left is the most important. Judy was an incredible person who has affected the lives of many people and even though part of her is not with us any more, she will certainly continue to be a part of our lives in many ways.

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Thanks to Glenn Munlawin of APress who sent some software business books to raffle off at the next meeting of VTSDA. We have one of Vermont's top Intellectual Property lawyers, Peter Kunin, speaking at the next meeting. It's fun to spread out to something that is not strictly about .NET and meet people from many different types of software development companies and still be able to share with them some of the great resources that I have access to. Aah, my ever expanding horizons!

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Loren gives some inside scoop on being a participant in this $100,000 contest. He also links to all of the winning apps..

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Well, I have uploaded BLInk! to my website. Try it out. It's free. It's NOT just for tablets.

It's not perfect but I think it's pretty good and Bliz and Softwaremaker have been using it for a while.

www.thedatafarm.com/blink.aspx

I have been using it for a while.

It works with blogger api and metaweblog api apps such as .Text and dasBlog and many others.

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And rightfully so. Their application, Art Rage, is amazing even though I can't even begin to take advantage of it. I'm a smiley face artist. It is used by real artists.

Hearty congrats to them!!!

(saw the news by way of Tablet PC Talk)

 

 

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This little puppy (shown here at 7 weeks but now is 12 weeks) was one puppy in my parents' recent pair of litters. (They breed Newfoundlands) She had a little problem and my mom had to take her to the vet today with the understanding that once he looked deeper into the problem they may have had to put her down. But it turned out the problem was not so bad and is now fixed and we're all happy. Maybe someday Little Miss Blue will get to live in Vermont, but I am in a long line of people who's heart she has stolen!

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