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This Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) proposal is still one of the coolest ideas for improving the commuting situation that I have seen.   Microsoft has a really large corporate campus with buildings spread out over many square miles.  Going to meetings in another building today involves driving yourself, taking a campus bus or ...

I have to blog about this before I do anything else.  I just found out that if you specify a configSection in your .exe.config file it must come as the first element in the configuration section!  I had done this:<?xml version=''1.0'' encoding=''utf-8'' ?> <configuration> <startup> <supportedRuntime ...

My company (Microsoft) is currently digging a really large hole just on the other side of the freeway from my office.  It's reportedly going to be the second largest underground car park in the western hemisphere.  Here's a recent TV spot about it.  Parking can be a really big problem around Microsoft.  Kudos to the company for ...

OK, in my opinion this is a bit more than a power tool - it's an entire product.  If you are using Team System you need to download and set up the Team System Web Access Power Toy that we just released.  Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain) is a Web interface to Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server.  We are ...

We were having a discussion today about Microsoft Points and that it would be useful to be able to transfer them to others as payment for, oh I don't know let's say, um, gambling debts.  Hey, that would be just like real money!  Couldn't find anything about that, but I did notice that there is a handy dandy Microsoft Points Converter.