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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 #

I probably give around 100 presentations a year to people in my current role.  I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it - there's a mental challenge that goes with presenting in front of a room of smart people that's hard to match.  You need to be prepared and you also need to be able to think on your feet - literally.  At the end of a long week during a 3 hour Friday afternoon presentation, I've been known to say some pretty silly things or go off on weird tangents.  So don't think I'm pointing fingers here - I'm merely relating what I thought was a funny statement.

I sat in an OS Futures presentation and one of the speakers was from IBM.  He had a slide that read: "Excluding Office and Windows, IBM is the world's largest developer of commercial software".  Think about that for a second.  It'd be the same as a GM representative saying, "If you exclude Ford F150s and Ford Tauruses, we're the largest builder of automobiles in the world." 

So, from now on I'm introducing myself as "Excluding everyone else you've met until now, I'm the smartest guy you know."  ;-)

posted @ 8:38 PM

Scott Willeke has improved upon some of the previous work to bring us a better calendar control for .Text.  Check it out:

http://blogs.pingpoet.com/overflow/archive/2004/02/14/304.aspx

posted @ 5:39 PM

Stefano Demiliani points to a download point for the “Royale” theme from Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.  Seems someone has “liberated” it and posted it for people to install on their XP machines… 

[Excerpt from Stefano’s Blog]

Accordingly to Winbeta, seems that someone has taken out from Windows XP MCE (Media Centre Edition) 2005 new Royale theme (really cool) and it's now available to install on XP and Windows 2003 machines…

[Stefano Demiliani WeBlog]

posted @ 3:55 PM

I've been using Firefox 0.9 for a few days now and I have to say that I'm impressed.  Well, that is except for the annoying little Outlook issue.  Whenever I would click a link in a mail, it would open but also display a dialog box titled "Locate Link Browser".

A quick search turned up John Haller's site.  Apparently this is a problem with the way that Firefox registers itself with the URL file type.  John has posted a REG modification that will fix this for now.  Thanks, John.

posted @ 12:03 AM