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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:14 AM

ESTAFest Day 3

Sorry, I guess I left you hanging there..... Sunday, we had the final performance, "Harriet" by the Serenity Players of Washington, DC. Originally a one-women monologue about Harriet Tubman, they added a second woman, who performed a couple hymns (Tubman
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Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:56 PM

ESTAFest 2004 (Day 2 - Afternoon)

Sorry about cutting that short but I was late for dinner. Anyway, back to our story: Well, first of all, somehow a paragraph got lost form my last post (I'm writing off-line, so it's easier to add it here than correct it there). So, the short play "Fin
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Saturday, April 17, 2004 4:59 PM

ESTAFest 2004 - Day 2 (Morning)

After breakfast, I was over to the college for the morning workshop session. Actually, this one was a repeat of the one I came in at the end of yesterday: "Script Analyst: Understanding the playwright's scenario" by Ward Dales, who is one of the adjudicators.
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Friday, April 16, 2004 10:14 PM

ESTA Fest 20004 Day 1

I'm writing from the lovely little town of Wye Mills, Maryland, the site of the Eastern States' Theater Association's 2004 Theater Fest. After a rather hellish drive down (lost an hour to traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike), the very second that I pulled
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 11:04 PM

On the release of Top Secret Memos....

It's a Washington maxim, that if you want to bury a news story, release it after 6pm on a Friday, because no one watches the new over the weekend. The August 6th 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing was released after 6PM on a Saturday of a Holiday weekend
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:40 AM

They LOVE me in Seattle.....

So, I'm still waiting to be Scoblized or even Slash-dotted, but in the mean time, an article in the online edition of the Seattle Post-Intellegencer refered people to this site. (Hope some of them come back....) Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it!
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:33 AM

The other books....

OK, now that I've trashed “Joshua”, I might as well discuss the other books in the book club this year. (Note, the club is run by St Valentines Roman Catholic Church is Bloomfield, NJ, so you might sense a theme in them). First was Running
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:19 PM

Book Review: Joshua and the City (Part 3)

Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. But after all of that, the thing that most bothered me, and moved me from merely being disappointed in the book at actually offended by it, is a 20 page story arc, which he mounts a slanderous attack against the First Amendment
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:15 PM

Book Review: Joshua and the City (Part 2)

Part 1 is here. Part 3 is here . This brings us to the next major failing of the book: The character of Joshua. In an attempt to make him a “Christ-like character”, Girzone spends too much time trying to make him “Christ-like” and not enough on making
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:59 PM

Book Review: Joshua and the City (Part 1)

Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here . I want to talk about the book I just finished. Normally, I wouldn’t bother with a full critique, but I found this book so bad on so many different levels, I felt compelled to comment. The book is “Joshua and the City”
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:06 AM

MVP Summit, Day 3 & the Pink Door.

On the third day of the Summit, the MVPs met with the Product teams at Microsoft for whichever product they support. That means I met with the folks on the C++ Team, who told me all about what's coming up in the next version of Visual Studio. In other
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:51 PM

Scoble watch --- Challenge met!!!!

Three friggin' hours! I bow down to the master......... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Readability Stats: Word Count: 9; Sentence Count: 10; Grade Level: K, more info...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:02 AM

The Scoble Watch, Day 1

Robert Scoble claims the Honest Illusion is one of the 1400 blogs he reads daily. We'll just have to see about that.... So, Robert, if you're reading this, you can just leave a comment right there --v Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it!
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:58 AM

MVP Summit, Day 2

Today was the Executive day at the Summit.... Lot's'o'big shots. First up was Lori Moore, vice president of Product Service Service, ie, the woman who's budget is paying for all this. She is a rather nice person, and she tries to let he hair down a bit
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:21 AM

MVP Summit, Day#1

I just left the first day of the MVP Summit. Saw a number of lectures: ASP.Net improvements, Visual Studio IDE improvements, Visual Studio Debugger improvements ( lot's Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Readability Stats:
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Monday, April 05, 2004 2:55 AM

MVP Summit, Day 0.5

The real MVP summit starts tomorrow (The first bus leave the hotel at 6:30!!), but today they had the registration at the Washisngton State Cenvention Center. We went to one room, where they looked up our names, and handed as a bag, and then we went upstairs
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Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:28 PM

MVP Summit

As I write, I'm in Seattle, at Microsoft's MVP Summit. Actually, that's not entirely true: I am in Seattle, but I won't officially be at the summit until sometime tomorrow evening when it actually starts. Right now, I'm just hangin' out in my hotel room,
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Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:21 PM

Order in Chaos, the Answer...

Ok, before I get to anything else (and there will be a bit), I'd better answer the question I posed last month (BTW, notice that I've never let a full month go by without a blog entry -- I'll get the hang of this thing yet....) Anyway, the reason, as
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