Monthly Archives: February 2007

Wiener Dog of Infinite Justice

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Oliver Willis, who writes the political blog Like Kryptonite To Stupid, has the wisdom (like me) to own a wiener dog of infinite justice (a dachshund). His dachsie is named C.K. (for Clark Kent). C.K. is shown on the right … Continue reading →

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Tony “Snowjob” in Action

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Glenn Berry

According to chief WH propagandist Tony Snow, everything in Iraq has gone well. This exchange was from yesterday’s White House presser: Question: Slides from a pre-war briefing show that by this point, the U.S. expected that the Iraqi army would … Continue reading →

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Battle of the Bulge Movie (1965)

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Cinemax recently ran the old Battle of the Bulge movie from 1965. I can remember seeing this movie on television as a kid, thinking it was a pretty decent war movie at the time. Unfortunately, it has not aged well. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 Released

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Glenn Berry

You can get it here. There is also a nice article about IIS 7.0 in the March 2007 MSDN Magazine. Here is a very intriguing snippet of the article: The other notable performance feature in IIS 7.0 is the new … Continue reading →

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NewsGator Mentions in the Blogosphere

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Steve Novoselac has a nice review of FeedDemon here. This post talks about how the number of NewsGator subscribers to your blog is a good predictor of traffic. This post talks about how the author came back to NewsGator after … Continue reading →

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Hell and High Water

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Cinemax just showed a Cold War classic from 1954, called Hell and High Water, starring Richard Widmark and Bella Darvi. Widmark’s character is a veteran U.S. submarine commander from World War Two. He is recruited by a consortium of western … Continue reading →

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Classic Original Star Trek Episode

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Glenn Berry

One of my favorite Star Trek episodes was The Doomsday Machine, written by Norman Spinrad. Word is out that Paramount has gone back and added over 100 digital effects shots of the doomsday machine, and they will premier the episode … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2005 Best Practices on TechNet

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Glenn Berry

I have linked to this page on TechNet before, but there is some new content there, so I will talk about it again. The page has links to lots of good whitepapers, and very useful DMV scripts and queries. There … Continue reading →

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Back to “A DMV a Day”

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Glenn Berry

It turns out that there are several known issues with ad-hoc plan caching in SQL Server 2005 RTM and SP1 that have been corrected in hot fixes that are rolled up in SQL Server 2005 SP2. This blog post discusses … Continue reading →

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NewsGator Desktop Synchronizer featured on Windows Marketplace

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s Tony Chor blogged about his "favorite IE7 add-on", our own NewsGator Desktop Synchronizer, which was developed by the hard-working Nick Harris. Its nice to see the result of Nick’s work featured on Windows Marketplace.

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