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HtmlEncode(string, TextWriter)
A friend pointed out the overload of HttpUtility.HtmlEncode today that I hadn't played with yet. No...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 07/23/2004
KITT for Sale
Boing Boing reports that one of the original Knight Rider cars is for sale on EBay, complete with...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 07/22/2004
More Fun with Images (or System.Drawing Redux)
It’s high time I wrote another little piece on what I have been programming in my spare time....
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 07/21/2004
Isaac Hayes' Three Laws of Robotics
Some guy Shane posted “Isaac Hayes' 3 Laws of Robotics“ as a comment to this blog entry...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 07/17/2004
Portable Media Center Players
All the gadget sites are talking about Amazon accepting pre-orders for these portable media center...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 07/11/2004
New MSN Search
Sweet. MSN Search has a new release. Looks good too without all that clutter in my opinion....
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 07/01/2004
Seattle Times -- Bill Gates as Chief Blogging Officer ???
Seattle Times has a piece indicating that BillG might start a weblog of his own. Wouldn't that be...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/27/2004
Office Space Wars
Here is a parody of Office Space set in the Star Wars universe so you know, Darth Vader as Lumbergh...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/27/2004
Image APIs
I have the opportunity to take lots and lots of pictures these days and share them with family and...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/22/2004
The End is Here
Autoblog has a post about BMW entering the mini-van market. Sweet god no!
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/22/2004
Joystiq - Weblogs Inc's Video Game Blog
Weblogs Inc's family of sites are announcing a video game blog - JoyStiq.com. I thought I read in...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/20/2004
Return of the DHTML Dude
Hmm... the return of the DHTML dude is of interest to the Slashdot crowd.
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/20/2004
Weird Afternoon at Microsoft
Weird afternoon at Microsoft today. My building sits between our conference center and a cafeteria...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/17/2004
Opinions on Blogging 1 Year Later
I have just noticed in my effort to understand this blogging phenomenon, I have been at it for just...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/13/2004
Washington State Ferries Get Wi-Fi
The Seattle PI is running a story about how Washington ferries are now equipped with wi-fi (free...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/12/2004
Setting Outlook Web Access Views on the QueryString
The other day I received an e-mail from a guy who read an entry of mine on the Exchange team blog...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/12/2004
Welcome Home 5.8 GHz Cordless
All right, I couldn't take losing my wireless network each time someone talked on our old 2.4 GHz...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/12/2004
SciFi Museum Visit Blogged
This blog, the ThumbMonkey, has an entry on his recent visit to the SciFi museum in Seattle with...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 06/07/2004
Outlook Web Access Administration Tool Released
I am happy to point to the download point for the new Outlook Web Access Administration Tool that...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 05/26/2004
Esther Dyson on the Future of Email
Esther gives some of her thoughts on what e-mail might or should be. ”The real value of the...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 05/20/2004
Ray Kurzweil Visits Microsoft
Yesterday I ran over to the MS Research lecture room to hear Ray Kurzweil speak. I guess...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 05/20/2004
Command Line Pizzer, Dyson Autonomous Vacuums, Real Nanobots and Vintage Lego
Here's a couple things from my browser history over the week... Slashdot reports a command util to...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 05/07/2004
More Exchange Job Openings
Our blogging recruiters Zoe and Gretchen are highlighting openings in Exchange. Their post focuses...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 04/28/2004
FOAF Spam
FOAF Spam - Unsolicited "junk" e-mail sent to large numbers of people by way of social networking...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 04/26/2004
Microsoft Bashing is so '99
John Topley has a nice piece about Microsoft and why he doesn't understand all the hatred towards...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 04/24/2004
HTML in RSS TITLE nodes
Man, I subscribed to Reiter's Wireless Data Web Log in my aggregator and I see escaped HTML in the...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 04/20/2004
Mobiles and TV, iPods and RSS, BMW M2 & Rejected Transformers
Japanese Mobile Phones with TV tuners (only 1 hour of battery life, but cool...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 04/18/2004
Type down searching in Outlook Web Access
Sometimes in using your own software you take advantage of features that other people have no idea...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 04/07/2004
The History of Entourage
Omar Shahine shares his experience building Entourage basically from scratch. I love reading little...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 04/04/2004
Impressions on Orkut
I decided to pass on Scoble's offer to send an invitation to Orkut to anyone who wants one and wait...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 04/04/2004
Job Opening in Outlook Web Access Development
Without sounding too much like a sales pitch here, I would like to put the word out that my team in...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/30/2004
BBC News on Robot Culture at the Robolympics
The competitions seemed to break down along cultural lines. The Japanese robots reigned supreme when...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/25/2004
Tonight's Misc. Interesting Reads
Best Practices for Representing XML in the .NET Framework by Dare Mark Cuban iPod Rumors on...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/17/2004
Google Recalcs
Seems that Google recalc'd the web today. Sure enough, the link power has raised this to a 4. I...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/16/2004
Craigslist's Creator's Weblog
The guy who created Craigslist, Craig Newmark, has a weblog. Craigslist a site for finding things...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/16/2004
Update on Scoble's Link Power
Earlier I asked Robert Scoble to link to a site I run to see if his link power could raise my Google...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/14/2004
Why is RSS/Atom adoption so low?
Scoble asks the question “Why is RSS/Atom adoption so low?“ among Microsoft geeks....
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/13/2004
DARPA Robot Challenge Ends with No Winner
Seems the LA-Vegas autonomous robot race ended today with no one claiming the $1 million prize. Only...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/13/2004
DARPA Grand Challenge Robot Race
Bruce's post reminds me that the start of the DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous robot race from LA to...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/08/2004
Intl. Safe URLs to Outlook Web Access Modules
KC posted an OWA tip from me on loc-independent URLs to OWA views on the Exchange blog. Have to blog...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 03/02/2004
Testing Scoble's Link Power
Rob Scoble claims to raise sites from obscurity to a Google rank of 4 with a simple link from his...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/28/2004
What would you say to Bill?
There are two responses that I see frequently when MS people run into Bill at work. There’s...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/28/2004
Ex-Intern about to Enter the Job Market
One of my old interns, Albert Mungin, is about to graduate UW equipped with a degree in EE and is...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/20/2004
Commercialization of Your Youth
Beth is complaining about Lincoln using a Peter Gabriel song to sell SUVs and recalls her...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/19/2004
Strongly Typed Resources in Whidbey
This is pretty handy. Can't wait. Kit George has some vb demo code as well.
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/18/2004
MSDN Gripe
In my perfect MSDN world, clicking a link to a reference article like this findText method would not...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/17/2004
Sharing One's Blogroll
Today I had this idea of a public site to upload one's blogroll so that you can find out who the...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/16/2004
Social Software
So Esther Dyson was on campus today, I didn't have a chance to go over and watch in person, but I...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/02/2004