The Galactic Patrol
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Saving the Universe from Boskone and Bugs
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- 194 from 12 Aug 2003 to 22 Mar 2005
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- new blog feed at https://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/atom.xml
- this blog is moving to https://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com
- Our hearts are with you, Pat
- Microsoft Garage Band
- kudos to Home Depot as well
- Cool GUI for editing parameters in visual studio - vote for it!
- Microsoft and Indian Academia: Progress, Problems, and Opportunities
- treasured blogger comes to Microsoft
- avoid dialog boxes while refactoring
- Its like playing 'Quake', but in the real world
- Think the product feedback rating system is wrong? go vote!
- fetching you a bottle of water does *not* motivate me
- How well do you know your Microsoft acronyms?
- obfuscated C code, for fun and profit (ok, just for fun)
- amazing new antenna technology
- managed COM+ objects that don't derive from ServicedComponent?
- The Bugatti Veyron - an incredible 250 MPH roadster
- WS-Eventing and WS-Addressing
- The real reason to get a tablet PC - TextTwist!
- Do you reload while you are brushing your teeth?
- I know why moths fly toward light...
- high school robots need your help
- video sunglasses should be wireless
- What is an 'anonymous' sender?
- Pat Helland blogging
- DARPA Robot Racing - Who's Watching?
- Rich Turner's Indigo Blog
- "The Right Society" censorship?
- Tivo-like 'thumbs-up' for my aggregator?
- Home Theater - wow!
- Atom RSS?
- Errata for WS-Eventing posts
- WS-Eventing Part III: The Notification Message
- Hot Water, Cold Air
- WS-Eventing Part II: The Subscription Response
- WS-Eventing: A Note on Namespaces
- Attribute-based Programming in Italian?
- personalized painkillers
- 3D animated movies are better than 2D?
- Lots of little blog entries, or The Big List?
- WS-Eventing for Dummies
- Software Testing on Mars
- Bruce Gets Back To Work
- WS-Eventing published
- Welcome to the world, Lucy!
- Welcome, Dom!
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- Is that a rail gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
- "Ender's Game" should be movie
- how to contact me
- should this blog be technical-only?
- new A/V cable format has built-in copy-protection?
- old blog entries at https://blogs.gotdotnet.com/bwill
- If you develop on Windows - use AppVerifier!
- Honk if you can read this!
- Blog moving...
- think you're good at puzzles? try this one.
- Privacy? What's that?
- ever wanted to make your software more usable?
- wanna write an online/offline app like Outlook 2003?
- "connected media center" devices - the new stereo component receiver?
- The *real* story behind "Design Patterns"...
- FreeNet looking for donations
- Breaking [Serializable]
- Lego robot solves rubik's cube
- Children growing up in a TiVo world
- The /GS switch and 'secure by default'
- The Blue Lady watches out for homeless Miami street children
- separated at birth?
- cbrumme on application compatibility (appcompat as we fondly know it)
- VB Lover? Read On...
- wanna beta-test some games? get some free software? read on...
- PDC - Company Meeting - who needs it!?
- wierd connections
- Time, once again, for the annual Ig-Nobel prizes!
- bluetooth ATMs?
- When it comes to C programming - start young!
- MONO Bloggers
- Your pain is my humor
- blog the testing cost post
- Chis Brumme on exceptions
- categories coming
- Macs suck - they really, really suck
- Be verwy verwy quiet - we're hunting bugs!
- oh - my - god - buy me this computer!
- old (and long) e-mail ramble about agent technology and other trivia
- UWB looks promising (and I'm not talking about the University of Washington Bowling league, either!)
- Fault injection tools from Microsoft
- How do I know I have four readers?
- are categories useful to you?
- For better or for worse - but I'm not taking your name!
- Code Name: "Avalon"
- For a good time, call 1-800-FAULT-INJECTION-TESTING
- father-son bonding
- The *most* *awesome* monitor in the world...
- www.weblogs.com
- Test tracing - it is not optional!
- Freeze, sucker! and drop that download!
- Better living through chemistry
- Eyeglasses that record everything...
- Pre-PDC checklist
- more Scoble stuff - there are many parts, but only one Microsoft
- Scoble talks about "us" at Microsoft
- please ignore the last post for now...
- I'm going to miss the company meeting!
- Construction engineers have solved all the problems software currently faces - *not*
- Of course, I *love* those SysInternals tools!
- Crashing Windows Server 2003
- Indigo PMs soliciting feedback
- awesome optical illusion
- Hurricane Isabel
- Giant Robots and Atomic Weapons
- A Scrabble blog
- Products that don't want you to look behind the curtain
- video images projected into the air
- design patterns in C#
- retrobox.com sells Microsoft's old computers
- nanotechnology: the return of the micronauts
- Red vs Blue - at the PDC?
- Wireless surround sound; music, sweet music...
- More Perl goodness...
- The Dark Side of McDonalds...
- “The first priority, young man, is to find the bugs…”
- Fun with Perl on my blogroll
- BoingBoing
- Big Brother is watching you - Big Brother loves you
- "The Baghdad Blogger"
- A beautiful West Virginia Bed and Breakfast
- Escape Analysis; or, 'how *did* that bug slip through testing?'
- We can rebuild him - better, stronger, faster
- nano-scale chemicals - boon or bane?
- "I'm With Busey" claims another victim
- Raymond's Bits of Eclectic Windows Trivia, Legerdemain, and Historical Oddities
- Switching from Windows to Linux
- The Portrait of the Mastermind (INTJ)
- The coolest jacket in the whole world
- I work on "Indigo"
- All roads lead to Fry's
- Rewriting Microsoft web services
- Amazing! Free! Cool!
- internet flaky this morning...
- and now for a little silliness...
- Leggo my Lego!
- The Mysterious Moving Maze!
- Reality TV? Please, not while I'm eating!
- I am a HiFi philistine
- Los Alamos whistle-blower gets $$$
- We've built a five-year-old! Now, about the potty-training...
- ASML - a modeling tool for testing
- fun with consumer electronics (and the perils of the super-remote)
- on vacation...
- Strange new virus rumored
- The Learning Lifestyle
- Its a girl!
- Tech blogs, hosting, and personal expression
- stupid credit card tricks
- Let people know about a security vulnerability - spend 16 months in jail
- 3D Printers (revisited)
- Gizmodo turns one year old - check them out!
- Howard Dean blog - revisited
- Vigilante hackers
- What is 6% of $250,000?
- My wife rules!
- 480Mb/s (wireless) - a dream or a promise?
- "Alex, I'll take 'Foreign Relations' for $200, please..."
- Baby born with cell phone in hand!
- Adam Smith and the Navy
- EverQuest: It's not just an adventure - it's a job
- my bank account as an RSS feed?
- home ownership, sprinkler systems, and money
- an interesting life
- 3D printers
- evolutionary programming
- Howard Dean blog
- BBC: "Microsoft has announced that new versions of its mouse will be fitted with wheels that tilt as well as roll."
- Easy-to-use component stereo?
- My laptop is *so* *slow*
- Back in time
- Wiki is very cool (but not perfect)
- Wiki Tiki Tavi
- Closing the cycle between test and customers
- I use NewsGator; and love it!
- An example of Test-Driven Development
- Life-changing moments...
- Lawrence Lessig and the public domain
- Athens PC and my phone
- If a metric falls in the forest, did it make a sound?
- Is test listening to customers?
- Checking out Technorati
- "By Design" a desirable resolution?
- characteristics of testing
- some older posts...
- Contacting me
- Howdy