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12:30 PM you there? 12:30 PM I'm here, but I'm really not. whatever that means 1:14 PM hey can you ping me when u have a few? 1:14 PM how about after I've had a few? 1:23 PM hey can you please review my code? 1:23 PM sure.  You caught me doing email (what are the odds?) So I'm glad to do real work. 4:55 PM Are you there? 1:45 PM just logged on to my desktop. I guess that IM was from yesterday. 1:45 PM no worries, i think i have it covered.  thanks for checking back though 1:46 PM SLA = less than 24 hours on IM.  beat that! 1:46 PM Indeed! 1:51 PM Your message is very important to us. Please allow 18-24 hours for one of our representatives to respond to your instant message at their earliest convenience.  The speed of <insert company here> (TM) 5:30 PM I think they copied their process off of the doctor's office when you tell the person at the front desk that your address has changed, then you tell the nurse. The...

Today's too sad. Even Garfield isn't enough. Even a DS doesn't distract enough. Enough is enough! Today is now tomorrow In a room with no view. Blue tape masking fluorescent reflections "Poor Mama" "I want to sleep" "What's the big idea?" Copyright @2011.  All rights reserved

Here are some good resources: Site Description dnrTV .NET camtasia interviews Coding Katas Michael Norton's list of links to programming exercises on the web. Microsoft MIX11 Microsoft MIX 4/11 conference for web development Microsoft MIX10 Microsoft MIX 3/10 for web development Microsoft PDC 2010 Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 10/2010 Microsoft PDC Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 12/2009 Google IO 2010 Google IO Developer Conference 5/2010 Google IO  2009 Google IO Developer Conference 5/2009 DevelopMentor .NET presentations The Server Side .NET interviews Oredev Oredev 11/2009 conference NDC 2010 Norwegian Developer's Conference 6/2010 http://artofunittesting.com/ Ruby 1.9 WCF Web APIs

Web videos for keeping up with industry (mostly Microsoft technologies) from last 2.5 years 2011 Category Title Rating Notes Effectiveness Brain Rules 5 EXERCISE | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power. SURVIVAL | Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too. WIRING | Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently. ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don't pay attention to boring things. High Performance Teams Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams 5 Roy Osherove's presentation on transitioning from a chaotic to a mature high performance team. Resharper Shortcuts Visual Studio Shortcuts 2010 Category Title Rating Notes C# The Future of C# and Visual Basic by Anders Hejlsberg 5 Here is an accompanying blog post on Async: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/10/28/asynchrony-in-c-5-part-one.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/async Agile Practices eXtreme Programming Practices 5 LINQPad Writing LINQ queries with LINQPa...

How to turn off arrival indicator. Why?  I like frequent distractions.  I also enjoying distracting others with my Facebook notifications during meetings. How often to check email. Every waking second as we all are too smart for our own good (-6 IQ points) Email etiquette Be sure to reply all with ALL thank you notes.  ALSO, BE SURE TO USE UPPER CASE TO ADD THE PROPER EMOTION TO YOUR EMAILS TO MATCH OUR IN-PERSON COMMUNICATION. How to search email (From x) For those used to instant gratification from using gmail, delayed in-gratification is a valuable life skill. How to discourage email Office hours – 9:00 AM Brilliant timing as everyone else is still answering their emails so no one actually shows up, but we still get credit. 3 strikes and you're out or ball 4, take a walk. But long email threads provide useful material for the book I’m writing in my “spare” time tentatively titled ...

Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:26 AM Subject: got a missed call on support mobile Although 92 country code is for Pakistan, I would want to assume the call was from someplace else :P Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:35 AM Subject: RE: got a missed call on support mobile Probably some real estate agent checking to see if you would be interested in a property that just opened up. “The perfect getaway from the modern world…” “No internet or phone service provided…” “High privacy walls…” “A fixer upper’s dream…”