OK. I don't need a new phone anymore. I got one today. I got the Motorola V266 from US Cellular. There's nothing special about the phone (no Windows Mobile, Palm OS, QWERTY, etc.), but it does have one important feature:
It works
Plus, it has a camera and voice commands, but I don't know how often I'll use those. It was free (after rebate), and a friend works at US Cellular, so it made the decision easier -- she even sent in the rebate form for me so I wouldn't ...
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I'm using Verizon right now, but my plan expires in a few weeks. Plus, my phone is just about shot.
Is anyone happy with their mobile provider? Who do you like or not like? I need to do something here pretty quick. My phone "works", but the screen does not.
E-mail me or leave a comment here.
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There is a lot going on locally in the MS community over the next couple weeks. For starters, on November 7, Microsoft will be launching a new series of development packages: Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and Biztalk 2006. The official launch will be happening in San Francisco, CA.
The WI .NET Users Group is having a Community Launch (aka, Ready Launch Tour 2005) on November 8. It is a joint meeting with the WI SQL Server Users Group. Because of the combined meeti...
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A good manager will take you through the forest, no matter what. A leader will climb a tree and may say, "This is the wrong forest."
I saw this in the comments of an older blog post the other day, and it really stuck with me. (Brian Tinkler just informed me that this is actually a Stephen Covey quote/paraphrase.)
Of course, a bad manager can't see the forest for the trees.
I've had a number of good managers, and even more bad managers. However, I have had very few leaders, a...
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OK, so that's a really lame name for a program, but I named it so I wouldn't forget what it was. I could have called it PhireFaacs, but really, do you think I would know what that was in two weeks? Forget for a moment how much ridicule I would receive from my peers for choosing such a stupid name -- that's an even dumber name than "Newsletter Sender".
Anyway, I wrote a simple little WinForms program last night (screenshots below) to help me send out the newsletter for the WI .NET Us...
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By now you may have heard about Cropper by Brian Scott (I've even mentioned it before). It's a nifty screen capture utility that I originally found linked from Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Tools list. I've used it a few times, and it's pretty cool. You can optionally choose to create thumbnails of each screen capture.
Well, Patrick Altman is a self-proclaimed Cropper fan, and he has written a nice little plugin for it. His plugin will take a standard Cropper screen captur...
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