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I started Telligent as a PM, then went into product, then moved to the Microsoft-specific "sites" team where I wrote and maintained the http://silverlight.net site. But that ended last week as the sites team transitioned onto other projects inside Telligent. Terri wrote about it here. So, I'm back into the Services dept as a PM ...

Rick Strahl: What can you keep in your Head? +1 [include:blogad] 

To copy your personal calendar to google, use their new synch tool... ..and then uninstall it. It crashed my wife's Outlook 2003 almost every hour when it synched up, and I'm still finding strange entries in my Deleted Items folder in Outlook 2007 from when it was running - every hour it would create a few dozen empty appointments from ...

Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's tweet this morning about Google Apps for business, perhaps that's only temporary! Go ...

My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month or so and reading it there. When I went on vacation for a week I was reading it on my phone ...

I was in the middle of debugging when *POOF* my screens all went black. iTunes was still playing so I knew the computer was ok. Perhaps Explorer had taken a dump? I wiggled the mouse and it was like I was trying to wake it up - I caught a glimpse of my background before it all went black again. More frantic wiggling. This time I got a login ...

Take a look at www.theroadkings.com - notice especially the URL’s as you click around the site. The whole thing is ajax-driven, with no way of linking to a specific page (at least without downloading the ajaxEngine.js and reading the file). It’s a superb example of using latest kick-ass technologies completely inappropriately. Why ...

I'd love to update some of my sites - they could sure use some updating. But I'm crap at web design. The whole "pretty" thing is sadly out of my reach. I want someone to design the layout, make it beautiful, cut it up and send me css+markup that I can skin the site with. I've actually started asking around, and found ...

Ben took this.. ...and made this... We had a great week here in Dallas discussing CS 3.0 and all the new scrummy-goodness that it's going to have. I've finally decided to move this blog to CS 2.0, so that will be an interesting few weeks while I try that out firsthand. It's about time I changed my brand of dogfood. [include:blogad]

Uh-oh. I dropped my phone and it doesn't work any more. I feel strangely liberated. I went drag racing yesterday without it and couldn't be reached by phone or email. I didn't check my email for 24 hours, can you imagine?? Luckily, prices for this now-outdated phone have dropped significantly. Listed at $900 when I bought it, I ...