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    May 14

    new baby Boy

    Big news today!

    My buddy Bob and his wife Sally just had a son at UHN Toronto General.

    Sam Loblaw weighed in at 8lbs. 5 oz. after 23 hours of labour. Bob and Sally are doing fine - but are very tired. Before nodding off to sleep - Bob sent me this cool video of Sam.

     

    In case you wanted to drop by and visit them in the hospital - here's the link.

    February 23

    Testing LiveWriter

    I just downloaded and updated all my “live” tools with “wave 3” of Live services. I thought I would take a moment and make sure they are configured to work correctly with my ID and properties.

    So far – it has been painless. Just did an update for the live tools and that’s about it.

    Rick

    May 24

    Kelli and The Kids on the Canal

    I just got this cute video of Kelli and The Kids on the Canal from my Windows Mobile 6 device. Looks like they are having fun, looking at all the lovely tulips.

    I've been on the road for 7 days now and this little video brought me a nice smile. I think they've been at TheTulipFestival on the Ottawa Canal. I wonder how far they got this time around!

    April 09

    Demo Competition Finals over - We made Second Place!

    OK - I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little down about getting second place, but you know what? The competition was a lot of fun!  We had a video switching problem for the first 15 seconds (wrong screen up for the music intro which set the stage with a bit more details) but all in all we overcame some challenges and pulled off a nice demo.

    In true demo form - here's the Silverlight Streaming version for you to see. You can double click on the video to get full screen.

    I hear that a version of it will be posted on 2 public sites - On10.net and Channel 8 - way cool.

    Thank you to everyone who helped out and gave us support and advice throughout the process.  For those of you who are interested in doing these things yourself to share your memories with your friends and family - we're putting together a short document on what Windows Live Services we are using and how to get it all to work together.

    Stay tuned for how to get access to it.

    April 04

    Hello World

    Hi

    Kids on the Canal

    I just got this cute video of Kelli and The Kids on the Canal from my Windows Mobile 6 device. Looks like they are having fun, eating a beaver tail and drinking Hot Chocolate.

    I've been on the road for 7 days now and this little video brought me a nice smile. I think they've been at winterlude festivities on the Ottawa Canal for a skate. I wonder how far they got this time around!

    April 02

    IN building 112 for some Demo prep

    Hey there - I thought I would drop a note to say that Christian and I are in Redmond and we're in Building 112  -Conference room 4181 for some Demo Prep. Nothing too major, just making sure things are flowing correctly and that we can reset the systems quickly enough. This should be fun.

    Map image

    I do have to say that the weather in Seattle is quite nice right now. I thought it was supposed to be crappy and rainy all the time at this point in the year - not the case so far - 2 days running!

    Gotta Run.

    February 15

    7 more days on the road and counting...

    Hey guys - It's been seven days we've been on the road. I'm tired and I want to head home to see Kelli and the kids.
    February 04

    Launch Content well underway

    Man oh man - have I been burning the midnight oil on getting the Launch Content ready. It's been a lot of fun playing with all this technology and all the demo hardware.

    Can't wait to show you all what's up!

    February 01

    Microsoft to acquire Yahoo

    I just read that Microsoft has bit in a bid of 44 billion dollars to acquire Yahoo!
     
    Interesting play to gain marketshare in the internet space.
    January 17

    here is an album post

     
    Rick's Corner O'Internet: Haloween

    This is an album post.

    Quick check of posting album entries

     

    So this works like a charm, if it actually works like it looks like it will. Like Wow!

    December 12

    The Girls and I were out for the day

    I decided to get the girls out of the house and give Mom some time to just chill. We decided to head out to the Children's museum over in hull. It was a great day by all!