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Re: Manic Monday Music

Rob Burke — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:51:09 -0000

Wow, I would love to see the code you'd emit listening to this set of music :)

Re: Explaining Ajax

Rob Burke — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:14:55 -0000

This is very helpful! Thanks!

Re: POTD 060827

Rob Burke — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:15:20 -0000

I really like your POTD series -- keep it up! :)

Re: The great “pull the laptop off of a table by its power cord” contest

Rob Burke — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:57:39 -0000

Rob, I've done it, man.

When my advisor walked in (this was back in Boston), I spun my chair around to speak with him, and caught the power cable by the chair's arm. The laptop was a Sony Vaio. It flew off the desk and landed on its PCMCIA WiFi antenna, which caused the PCMCIA card to mash itself into the motherboard. The damage was phenomenal, the laptop wasn't back from repairs for almost a month... and hearing it thud felt not unlike getting kicked in the nether-regions :)

Re: Can a corporate blogger use the "F-word?"

Rob Burke — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:57:57 -0000

I think it's an issue of "raising the stakes." Once you're cussing (instead of being eloquent) to describe something that blows you away, you can't raise the stakes that high again.

Well, without entering into South Park or The Aristocrats territory.

And I also agree that there's a 'tone' issue. If nobody in the corporation cusses in public, and it's a corporate blog, there I think there are fair questions about appropriateness to be asked.

Re: Technology Roundtable at Web2Ireland

Rob Burke — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:17:29 -0000

The roundtable sounds very interesting. I would be happy to contribute something about ASP.NET Atlas and new tools for facilitating 2.0 concepts, Mashups, etc.