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If he don't like it, or me, then why the hell is he here exactly?

This blog is as off topic as you can get without a prescription from your doctor.... Sometimes when one doesn't get the answer one wants, one can feel somewhat bitter about that fact. Technical problems with computers can cause a person to be particularly Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments
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If you say I'll PASS, that means you'll be there!

Warning: Excessive PASS puns follow; if you don't like that sort of thing, then do not PASS... It was one of those fun conversations that I find myself in from time to time. Over IM, I was talking to my friend Rachel (a very smart ASPNET developer I know Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Same shit, different decade/century/millennium

Lest you have any doubts, I speak here for myself and only for myself, not for Microsoft or for any person, group, or division within Microsoft. This statement is so simple that anyone can get it, right? Now although I work for Microsoft, for everything Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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From I SCOOT to IBOT, #4 of ?? (with some pictures!)

Prior blogs in the series here and here and here . In response to I SCOOT TO IBOT, #2 of ?? , Gwyn commented : Can you provide some pictures of the different modes? I'm not really sure what they all are exactly like. Very good idea! I had a few minutes Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

'It's Not Easy' saying WTF to an 'Ant in Alaska'

This blog title is not a reference to Kermit's It's Not Easy Being Green , as any diehard Liz Phair fan would recognize... I'm going to dig a little into one of the random questions that came out of this last April's I'm aware of that: an Andreaesque Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 3:11 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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Helping partners -- small steps can be a big deal

So it was yesterday from over in Hong Kong that friend/colleague/Microsoft MVP Martin Poon pointed out an article in Chinese entitled Microsoft 帶領合作夥伴協助中小企克服經濟逆境 (Microsoft partner will help lead SMEs to overcome difficult economic conditions). This is Read More...
Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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You think herding cats is hard? Try herding CATS. Hell, try herding KATS!

It reminds me of a joke that I actually experienced a while back. My cat of blessed memory (Tamara Penelope Kaplan, or Tammy for short) had done something that required stitches. The veterinarian was quite helpful and she (the veterinarian) gave her (the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

The absentee ballot seems like the best approach, if I am a homeowner about to be sexually assaulted...

Here I am, home in a Saturday afternoon and pondering what I'm going to do tonight (the choice is between several things that aren't really sounding too exciting, but maybe it will pick up). Over to my right is a huge pile of mail asking me to vote for Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 4:59 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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From I SCOOT to IBOT, #2 of ??

Another post about moving to the IBOT ! :-) After I blogged From I SCOOT to IBOT, #1 of ?? , I did leave some people hanging, wondering how the evening went. How the IBOT was going. You know, what lessons I learned, etc. And more on the differences between Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #1 of ??

I thought regular and semi-regular readers might like an update on life with the IBOT, after I blogged about getting one in Cogito ergo cathedra... (I think, therefore IBOT...) a few days ago. If you're not interested, then you can leave now. :-) This Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

Cogito ergo cathedra... (I think, therefore IBOT...)

Now ordinarily I would apologize to René Descartes for appropriating and re-purposing his quote, but he was not, in the end, all that fond of the particular phrasing of the idea, so.... I have talked about Dean Kamen's IBOT several times in the past, Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Limonata is getting lots harder to find, dammit! What, do I have to @#%&*! move to Italy?

(This is a post about Limonata) or, to use the newer can style in my art: In the middle of last year when I mentioned There is no more Limonata at Trader Joe's and the fact that Trader Joe's had chosen to stop carrying San Pellegrino Limonata. Anyway, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments
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Insufficient to push itself plus 160 pounds of me

Long time readers may remember back in April of 2005 when in Getting enough exercise? I talked about my adventures with a scooter that broke on the way back from Typhoon! in Redmond to my apartment, and the long walk I did pushing a scooter for a not-so-insignificant Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Let my tombstone read: 'Generally thought to be bad attrition'

Off-topic, irreverent, but with a kernel of truth in it for people who care about such things.... I don't think that a blog has the force of law or anything, but hopefully when I die those charged with deciding how to dispose of my body will respect wishes Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments
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Another death in the family

Well, not really. Unless you extend the definition of family to include things that are not really alive. My 1995 Saab 900 died. She was kind of a person to me, though I do not share her name with anyone. That's something private, sorry! Yes, this is Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments
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