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I Spent Two Hours Herding AI. I Could Have Just Done It Myself.
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.
cloudxplorer-discount
For years working with blobs in Azure storage, my go to favorite tool has been [Clumsyleaf's CloudXplorer](http://clumsyleaf.com/products/cloudxplorer…
Blogging Again
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 Page…
Spam domains
A running blocklist of domains sending unsolicited outsourcing pitches, phishing attempts and WordPress registration spam. Updated as new senders are blocked.
Updated Blog
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 ye…
Paypass and NFC payments with Windows 8 phones
[](https://gwb.blob.core.windows.net/rwalker/WindowsLiveWriter/Paypassa…
Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013
Back in February, I had the honor to attend Microsoft’s annual Summit for MVP award winners. As an award winner we get invited to visit the Redmond ca…
Antitrust Lawsuit versus megagiant OCLC
[http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/886099264/skyriverandinnovativeinterfacesfile.html.csp](http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/886099264/skyrive…
I still think Twitter is dead … but
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 mone…
Steve Ballmer’s recent CEO letter – Do More with Less
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…
A proud Influencer (I’m giving a $10k+ Prize Giveaway)
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 st…
New FedEx SSL Cert is bound to cause problems
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 …
Congratulations & Thanks to Scott Spradlin
[![ScottSpradlin](http://gwb.blob.core.windows.net/rwalker/WindowsLiveWriter/CongratulationsThankstoScottSpradlin202/ScottSpradlinthumb.jpg "ScottSpra…
Wishing you were at PDC? We saved the Jacksons & still get the content!
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 …
Chris William's 9 Questions
For those that are unaware, [Chris Williams](http://geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/), a fellow VB MVP does a 9 Questions series with fellow developers a…
How I think Twitter can solve it's problems!
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 Twitt…
Winner of Certification Exam Voucher
Surprisingly enough, [Chris Love](http://professionalaspnet.com/) wins the Microsoft Certification Exam Voucher. I calculated the winner by counting t…
Congratulations & Thanks to Jay Smith & Michael Paladino
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When Wal-Mart speaks, everyone listens - the final destruction of HD-DVD
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…
Power of social computing, new school viral vs old school
[](http://twitter.com/vonlar) [](http://ww…
AutoRuns for Windows - Diarrhea never felt so good!
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 …
Javier Lozano & Spanish C# Compiler
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 Sp…
Awesome Team Development with TFS - Online Guidebook
[http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide](http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide "http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide") I came across the information from the latest …
Allstate Kicker commercial resembles our tech life
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 w…