Philosophical Geek

I’m offline this weekend, so if you submit comments (which are moderated), they’ll show up sometime on Monday or Tuesday. Thanks!
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Getting a weird COM Exception with the cryptic ID 0×8055001E?
We’ve been struggling with this problem for over a year now, and we finally have a solution.
We have some critical code that is contacting Exchange server via COM Interop and CDOEX.DLL to read some inboxes and process e-mails. About once a month or so, we get [...]

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I’ve been wanting to change the look of this blog to be much more minimalist for a while now, and I think this week will be the week to do it. If you notice weird changes as you’re browsing, please bear with me.
I’m also going to be reducing the number of ads on [...]

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I’ve updated my list of podcasts with some that I forgot and some new ones I discovered while finding the links to the first ones. I also slightly reorganized the list (Added a business section)
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Jeff Atwood laments the single-item nature of the Windows clipboard, and points out utilities that can expand the capabilities to multiple items. I think that’s a great power tool to have, but I’m not sure having a multiple-item clipboard is really the best thing.

I think one of the strengths of the clipboard is its single-mindedness. [...]

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I got a 4 MB blue iPod Nano 2nd Genfor my birthday last June, and while I do have a few music playlists, I almost exclusively listen to podcasts. I can’t believe I went so long without one of these. Putting together the list below led me to some others that I might give a [...]

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What attributes can contribute to a highly successful software developer versus the ordinary run-of-the-mill kind? I don’t believe the attributes listed here are the end-all, be-all list, nor do I believe you have to be born with them. Nearly all things in life can be learned, and these attributes are no exception.
My first book, C# [...]

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Ok, I have to give a quick shout out to my hosting company, HostForWeb. I’ve had my web-sites and e-mail hosted by them for about…5 years now? I can’t remember when I started, but a while ago.
Today, I noticed that my e-mail was not going out through my domain via smtp. I quickly determined that [...]

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I’ve fixed one of the biggest holes in functionality in Windows Live Writer. It’s simple, but essential: the ability to count words (and characters and paragraphs) in  your posts before publishing.
Windows Live Writer doesn’t really offer a way to extend the menu system itself, but you can create an “Insert…” plugin that just analyzes content [...]

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