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Entries from April 23rd, 2007

Canucks go to Round 2!

April 23rd, 2007 No Comments

Roberto Luongo, Trevor Linden and the rest of the Canucks put in an outstanding 2nd and 3rd period to squeak out a 4-1 win against the Dallas Stars. This was really a 2-1 game as Pyatt and Smolinski potted a couple of empty net goals with about 90 seconds to go.
The Canucks finally found [...]

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Visual Studio 2005 on Vista Requires Admin Rights

April 18th, 2007 No Comments

I finally got the chance today to get back to working on PowerTray, this time with my Visual Studio 2005 installation on my Virtualized Windows Vista setup.  The first thing I ran into was this warning dialog:

To me, this is the kind of issue that shows immaturity in the OS.  Though it is possible to [...]

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Lets Get Virtual!

April 15th, 2007 1 Comment

Several months ago I picked up a new machine, a MacBook, from which the bast majority of these blog posts have flowed. I absolutely love my MacBook and I can see myself becoming a regular Mac user with future computer purchases. That said, for about the past 15 years, I’ve been a devout Windows user. [...]

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Apple Delays Leopard until October

April 12th, 2007 No Comments

In a somewhat expected move, Apple announced today that their much anticipated next-generation OS will be delayed past the promised “Spring 2007” ship date. Speculation was that the new version of Mac OS X codenamed “Leopard” would be released during Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference in June. Ironically, this message is also the [...]

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Want a Jersey? GoCanucks.ca

April 10th, 2007 1 Comment

Some crazy Canucks fans have put up a website to give away a Canucks’ Jersey for every Canucks’ win in the Playoffs.  The tradeoff?  A few product-centric emails from their sponsors.
Since all the emails should be coming from the guys that run the site (in this case a “friend of a friend”) I feel reasonably [...]

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