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A real-world experience using AI to plan family activities with GetOut passes — and why two hours of corrections taught me more about AI's limits than any demo ever could.
For years working with blobs in Azure storage, my go to favorite tool has been [Clumsyleaf's CloudXplorer](http://clumsyleaf.com/products/cloudxplorer). For 20% off, please use the code: RANDY20OFF Th…
Every now and then I keep promising myself I'm going to start blogging again. So here's yet another attempt. This time I've decided to use GitHub Pages to host the blog. It took a little bit of work, …
So recently I’ve had some issues with people calling and emailing trying to get my business for outsourcing. Looks like my information was “scraped” from LinkedIn. In an effort to help others, here is…
It’s been a long time since our company has had a blog site. We’ve decided to revive it including some posts we’ve made at other locations over the years that are still relevant today. We look forward…
[](https://gwb.blob.core.windows.net/rwalker/WindowsLiveWriter/PaypassandNFC104A7/windowsphonelogo2.jpg)It’s been a long …
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Twitter finally hit the mainstream about 8 months ago, but I’ve been saying for a couple of years now, without a real way for the company to earn money, what’s the future fate of Twitter? On the perso…
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I suppose sometimes when one’s personal life gets busy, there are some things that fall by the wayside. So what all has happened since I last blogged? Business ha…
The following is Steve Ballmer’s recent letter to CEOs titled ‘The New Efficiency’. In all the talk about the economy, one term that comes up more and more frequently is something called "the new norm…
Fair warning, I’m combining several blog posts into one. As a father, there’s nothing that makes you more proud than to see your son take his first steps, say daddy for the first time, or catch his fi…
Having done some thorough research with code signing certifications and SSL certs, am I wrong in thinking that FedEx has royally screwed up? I had to double and triple check that the link provided was…
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Yes, I too wish I were in L.A. with all our geek friends. But thanks to fellow VB MVP, Julia Lerman, she has helped point out how we can view all the content at PDC without spending the thousands of d…
For those that are unaware, [Chris Williams](http://geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/), a fellow VB MVP does a 9 Questions series with fellow developers and influencers. I was extremely honored to be pick…
If you're an avid twitterer (or twit for short), you'll be very familiar with it's downtime issues. Well as I see it, there are 3 major problems Twitter has. Downtime, Spammers, and a lack of viable i…
Surprisingly enough, [Chris Love](http://professionalaspnet.com/) wins the Microsoft Certification Exam Voucher. I calculated the winner by counting the total number of entries first. [http://GeeksWit…
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This is not a tech related blog posting. I started out the day regretting all the phone calls I had to make. Two collection calls and then a call to the state government about a mixup I made. For some…
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I live just miles from the WalMart headquarters. Half the people I know live and breathe WalMart. I sell software to the vendors that hawk their wares at Wally World. So it's not a surprise to me that…
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It's hard to believe that the Sysinternals group at Microsoft are on their 9.02 version. For those that didn't know, Sysinternals used to be it's own company, until Microsoft recognized how important …
Wanted to say what an awesome idea this was by fellow geek Javier Lozano. Javier started translating a C compiler that you can write and program in Spanish. Perhaps with some community urging he could…
[http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide](http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide "http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide") I came across the information from the latest MSDN Flash. The information contained is awesome. …
I just saw this commercial while watching the Sugar Bowl. While very true about the kicker position in school sports, our tech life is much the same way. Corporate America hates to spend money in thei…