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Sunday, July 31, 2005 8:17 AM

Good Places to Eat with Toddlers #2: Redhook Brewery

Redhook's pub, Forecasters, has a casual attitude and admit minors, so it makes a great family destination. It goes without saying that they have great beer, the food is not bad either, but the best bit is in the summer: the beer garden out back. It's
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:12 PM

Where is the Windows BMP Format defined?

You'd think this would be simple: on MSDN surely. Even Google has trouble finding any microsoft.com site that defines the bmp file format. Here's how I found it (eventually): I started with a printed version of the GFF book , which is ancient, but pretty
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:24 AM

Why do Searches timeout and not support Back?

Bit of a rant, sorry. I'm going to pick on Amazon, but others do this too: why does a Search timeout in a web browser? Here is the scenario: do a Search on Amazon. See something interesting in the result list, click on it. Read the info, decide its not
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Friday, July 15, 2005 10:47 AM

Good places to eat with toddlers: #1, Pagliacci Pizza, Bridle Trails

Eating out with toddlers (and babies) is a challenge: you want some decent food, but you dont want to be surround by growling faces if your kid lets out a yell occasionally. Ideally you also want the place to keep your child engaged. We recently discovered
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Friday, July 15, 2005 10:43 AM

New blog category: Fatherhood

As it is difficult for me to blog about my work for the moment, I decided to blog about something that takes most of the rest of my time up: Fatherhood. We have a darling 2yr old daughter, Madeline, and the last 2.5 years have been combinations of fun,
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