The Galactic Patrol
Saving the Universe from Boskone and Bugs
old (and long) e-mail ramble about agent technology and other trivia
Peter’s response to my TiVo post for some reason reminded me of a rambling e-mail conversation I had...
Author: bwill Date: 09/26/2003
UWB looks promising (and I'm not talking about the University of Washington Bowling league, either!)
When I first read about the UWB technology for high-speed wireless connections, less than a year...
Author: bwill Date: 09/26/2003
Fault injection tools from Microsoft
In a response to my recent post on fault injection, Mark asks if I know of any publicly-available...
Author: bwill Date: 09/24/2003
How do I know I have four readers?
I recently asked the maintainers of https://blogs.gotdotnet.com if they kept access stats on my blog;...
Author: bwill Date: 09/24/2003
are categories useful to you?
In a post on his blog, Ron implies that I should be categorizing stuff on my blog. I never...
Author: bwill Date: 09/24/2003
For better or for worse - but I'm not taking your name!
I read this post discussing wives who don’t take their husband’s last name. Here...
Author: bwill Date: 09/24/2003
Code Name: "Avalon"
I noticed this link to Wesner Moise’s comments on Microsoft’s “Avalon” technology, to be debuted at...
Author: bwill Date: 09/23/2003
For a good time, call 1-800-FAULT-INJECTION-TESTING
We have occasional debates here at Microsoft on the value of ‘white-box’ testing. (For the...
Author: bwill Date: 09/23/2003
father-son bonding
Here is a cute story about a father teaching his son one of life’s most essential...
Author: bwill Date: 09/23/2003
The most awesome monitor in the world...
Here is the most awesome monitor in the world. It has a resolution of 6400x1200. I want...
Author: bwill Date: 09/23/2003
www.weblogs.com
I enabled a BlogX option to ping weblogs.com when I post – lets see if it works…
Author: bwill Date: 09/22/2003
Test tracing - it is not optional!
I’d like to talk about one of the first lessons I learned as a tester at Microsoft: Anticipate...
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
Freeze, sucker! and drop that download!
I recently discovered David Isenberg’s blog, and while surfing it I ran across a pointer to...
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
Better living through chemistry
I read this recent article about a drug called Provigil, which restores alertness and lets one go...
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
Eyeglasses that record everything...
Here is a concept for a pair of sunglasses with a built-in video camera, that records everything you...
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
Pre-PDC checklist
I’ve never been to an industry conference (yet; I keep trying to convince my management to send...
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
more Scoble stuff - there are many parts, but only one Microsoft
Again, while reading this same Scoble post, it got me thinking about my role at Microsoft. ...
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
Scoble talks about "us" at Microsoft
I was reading this recent post on Scoble’s blog, where he talks about how he refers to “we” and “us”...
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
please ignore the last post for now...
Well, who knew that ctrl-S in NewsGator would post, in addition to alt-S? And both my machines...
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
I'm going to miss the company meeting!
accidental post - see the real thing above.
Author: bwill Date: 09/20/2003
Construction engineers have solved all the problems software currently faces - not
I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard the wish: “if only software...
Author: bwill Date: 09/19/2003
Of course, I love those SysInternals tools!
Lest my last post be seen as overly critical of the SysInternals folks, let me comment that I...
Author: bwill Date: 09/19/2003
Crashing Windows Server 2003
Wow, this post had me worried – nothing a regular user program does should be able to...
Author: bwill Date: 09/19/2003
Indigo PMs soliciting feedback
I noticed on meta-douglasp that some of our Indigo PMs are soliciting your input on a few issues;...
Author: bwill Date: 09/19/2003
awesome optical illusion
Take a look at this link: https://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/t2_03.jpg It is not an...
Author: bwill Date: 09/18/2003
Hurricane Isabel
Looks hurricane Isabael is set to slam into the east coast today. My parents, and Gina’s, live...
Author: bwill Date: 09/18/2003
Giant Robots and Atomic Weapons
The site of sculptor Greg Brotherton displays an amazing assemblage of very cool-looking (if...
Author: bwill Date: 09/18/2003
A Scrabble blog
For a while, Gina was addicted to an on-line Scrabble game; she became quite adept at it, to the...
Author: bwill Date: 09/16/2003
Products that don't want you to look behind the curtain
In my last post, I mentioned a video display product, whose web page (at least the front page),...
Author: bwill Date: 09/16/2003
video images projected into the air
This is a clever little project. It apparently works by dispersing a relatively flat,...
Author: bwill Date: 09/16/2003
design patterns in C#
Here is a useful site describing a number of design patterns in detail, along with C#...
Author: bwill Date: 09/16/2003
retrobox.com sells Microsoft's old computers
I saw a question recently on an internal Microsoft alias, asking where old computers go when they...
Author: bwill Date: 09/16/2003
nanotechnology: the return of the micronauts
Ok, so maybe this is slightly larger-scale than nanotechnology, but these miniscule robots are still...
Author: bwill Date: 09/16/2003
Red vs Blue - at the PDC?
Ok, this is just awesome. I just got mail about it; I’m not sure if its supposed to be...
Author: bwill Date: 09/12/2003
Wireless surround sound; music, sweet music...
My dreams are starting to come true – see this offering by Sony, a completely wireless 5.1...
Author: bwill Date: 09/10/2003
More Perl goodness...
I fixed those pesky ASP.NET blogs in my blogroll with this hum-dinger: perl -pe "s!title="WebLogs @...
Author: bwill Date: 09/10/2003
The Dark Side of McDonalds...
Here is a hilarious cartoon discussing the dark underside of Hamburger Town – it cracks me...
Author: bwill Date: 09/10/2003
“The first priority, young man, is to find the bugs…”
Prologue One of my teammates recently set up a Wiki site for my team, and I must admit that I...
Author: bwill Date: 09/10/2003
Fun with Perl on my blogroll
Well, I decided it was time to export my blogroll to my blog. Fortunately, NewsGator exports...
Author: bwill Date: 09/10/2003
BoingBoing
That last link was courtesy of BoingBoing, by the way.
Author: bwill Date: 09/09/2003
Big Brother is watching you - Big Brother loves you
<SARCASM> Thank goodness our government is looking out for me, and making sure I...
Author: bwill Date: 09/09/2003
"The Baghdad Blogger"
One of the more interesting sites I visited in the days before before and after the recent...
Author: bwill Date: 09/09/2003
A beautiful West Virginia Bed and Breakfast
Al and Allison Alsdorf, my parents-in-law, run a beautiful Bed & Breakfast in Harpers Ferry,...
Author: bwill Date: 09/09/2003
Escape Analysis; or, 'how did that bug slip through testing?'
After the Indigo team's last milestone (M4), most of our feature test teams did an analysis of...
Author: bwill Date: 09/09/2003
We can rebuild him - better, stronger, faster
I read here that Sony is coming out with yet another rev of their Aibo robot dog. That thing...
Author: bwill Date: 09/08/2003