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MVP Summit 2008 - Wish I Could Be There
Well, the MVP Summit started today and I'm starting to see both blogs and pictures come out. Sadly, this is the first one since becoming an MVP that I've missed. The distance and expenses of getting to Redmond from London were just too much for me to...
Posted: Apr 14 2008, 05:45 PM by PaulBallard | with no comments
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New Year's Eve in London - Amazing
Last night was an excellent example of the pleasant surprises you find when moving to a new place. I usually watch the ball drop in Times Square on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve and often thought how great it would be to be in the crowd cheering...
Posted: Jan 01 2008, 10:19 AM by PaulBallard | with 1 comment(s)
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Happy To Be... An MVP.. Again...Again!!!
I am once again honored to announce that I have received a Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer - Visual Basic) award for 2008. Much thanks to Akim and Vicki my new MVP Leads here in the UK. As I look back to when I made a similar announcement last year I...
You Know You're NOT In Texas When...
My good friend and native Texan Noah Coad recently wrote a post entitled " You Know Your In Texas When " highlighting the sights and mostly tastes of Texas that stood out during his visit with family over Christmas (Noah works for Microsoft and now lives...
Posted: Dec 26 2007, 06:48 PM by PaulBallard | with 5 comment(s)
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5 Things About Me...
Many of you may have seen the recent game of blog tag going on called "5 Things...". I got tagged by David Walker from Tulsa and so here are some things about me that you probaby don't already know. I was born in Xenia, OH. Weather fans...
Happy to Be... An MVP... Again!!!
I am honored to say that I have received the Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer - Visual Basic) award for 2007. I want to thank Ed Hickey, my MVP lead, for once again considering my efforts in the community worthy of recognition. This time last year I mentioned...
Sansa Rhapsody e270R - Loving it!!
Santa Claus, in the form of my beautiful wife, brought me a new Sandisk Sansa e270R for Christmas this year, and I must say that it truly rocks! I'm a huge music fan with tastes ranging from early live recordings of Louis Armstrong to my latest favorite...
Posted: Dec 31 2006, 12:45 PM by PaulBallard | with no comments
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HP's New Revenue Generation Strategy - Did you want drivers with that?
Let's say that against your better judgement and the urging of your closest family members you do the unthinkable and actually purchase a retail computer from HP. Make absolutely sure that you take any driver CDs or files from hidden partitions and burn...
Posted: Nov 22 2005, 10:58 AM by PaulBallard | with 1 comment(s)
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Installing Java Runtime Requires ActiveX?
I recently needed to reinstall the Java Runtime environment on my desktop in order to view sites with Java Applets. When I went to Sun's download site, I got the familiar Windows XP information bar saying that the site was attempting to install an ActiveX...
Posted: Jul 27 2005, 09:50 AM by PaulBallard | with 1 comment(s)
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Mourning the Death of OS/2, The Horse I Rode In On
I wasn't always the .NET fanatic that I am today. In fact, before learning about .NET I spent a few years in the Unix/Java/Netscape world working on websites that are still in production today . But before that even, I spent the first 10 years of my career...
Posted: Jul 18 2005, 03:22 PM by PaulBallard | with 2 comment(s)
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