Goodbye Google Ads

Given that I’m now working for its major competitor, I’ve decided to take down the Google ads from this site. I hope this leads to less clutter and intrusiveness. My goal for this site has been (and still is) for it to be self-sustaining, and I hope it can continue to be through Amazon referrals.
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First two weeks at Microsoft

It has been an insane first couple of weeks at Microsoft. In actuality, though, I don’t know if I can count it as two weeks of experience. I’ve had two days of orientation, one day for the company meeting (which was awesome, by the way), and two more days for training in Live Search specifically. [...]

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Converting OLE_COLOR to System.Drawing.Color

I’ve been working on a project using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2008 (VSTO) and at one point I needed to get the colors for categories in Outlook 2007. There are actually 3 colors, and they are returned as uint’s–why the .Net wrappers don’t convert to colors for you, I don’t know (to avoid linking [...]

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Would you rather…

be able to read minds (anyone’s around you. Selectively. You aren’t forced.)
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be the smartest person in the world (in any field, you’re a genius)
…a question my wife and I pondered as we cleaned the house the other day…
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Google Chrome - the Good, Meh, Ugly, and This Means War

I just read all about Google Chrome, their new open-source browser, in the comic they put out. No download link at this time, but I’m sure it’s coming. My initial thoughts:
The Good

The JavaScript changes seems to make sense. The better garbage collector and speed improvements can’t hurt.
The free API to download lists of [...]

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