Duncan Mackenzie.NET

Was it fate, or mere coincidence? Today, I checked out a little online message board where MSFT employees sell/trade various used items (computers, appliances, furniture, baby clothes... whatever) and someone was selling one of those new Samsung DVD players with DVI out... yep, the very same one tha […]

Wow! Thanks for all the comments (you can stop now), I think I have a pretty good idea what you folks think. […]

If you found a (really) cool download on MSDN, but it was 200+ mb, would you want it packaged for download as a single file, or as multiple .cabs (maybe 10-20 mb each?) […]

Kent recently wrote an ASP.NET control (ascx) to display the contents of an RSS feed onto a web page (for use on MSDN) so I decided to slap it on my own web site to display blogs entries at http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/default.aspx, and I think it looks pretty good!   […]

I don't know if it is just me, but there are some times when a new product comes out and they have me from the moment I see the ad; the price is right, the features are exactly what I am looking for, etc... […]

Like Card, I earn much of my living on intellectual property, and I don't buy 90% of the arguments in favor of internet "music sharing". In my view, it's theft. If you want to do it anyway, at least be honest about it, rather than trying to tart it up as justice for the "rapacious" record companies. […]

Nice to know my colleagues are keeping busy... […]

Well, I haven't produced anything of staggering brillance tonight, but I'm a little less behind on some of my writing obligations (now those SAMS editors will stop posting my picture in the coffee room with nasty words beneath it)... still behind on 3 or 4 other projects, but progress is progress... […]

I have a bunch of writing to do, but what I really want to do is code! […]

You probably already subscribe to the MSDN RSS feeds, so this might be a duplication but here goes; […]

No button on my blog yet, but this is great... http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/redvsblue/

Kent has been posting pics and my glasses made it into the shot! Wow, this is pretty exciting, I think I'll go lie down. […]

I took the test Chris has been talking about, ended up as an ENTJ as well... I didn't read the descriptions before or after... but I think I get the general idea. As Chris was saying, I bet we could come up with quite a few similar traits amongst people at Microsoft... even my son has noticed. Whe […]