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March 2005 - Posts

Sad News

No sooner had I posted the previous entry about the XBox making it to the 278th than I read that their unit had suffered its first casualty in Iraq: http://www.wbir.com/news/search_article.aspx?storyid=24231 They can probably use a little morale boost Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:23 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Videos for Heroes

The 278th is still waiting for their XBox to arrive. It should arrive any day now. It seems packages take anywhere from two weeks to a month to make it to military personnel in Iraq. Today I sent another package containing the DVDs you sent me , along Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:33 AM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Wireless Internet Access Comes to the Caymans

It's spring break, and to make up for a vacation that I had to cancel last summer, my wife and I are in the Cayman Islands with the kids. We're staying at a dive resort on the north coast of Grand Cayman. My son and I got in three good dives today. The Read More...
Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 1:30 AM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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More on the Thrill of a Lifetime

The simulator that I flew in was manufactured by a company named CAE. I didn't have my trusty digital camera with me (unfortunately), but CAE's Web site has a picture of a simulator like the one I flew in as well as lots of other interesting stuff. I Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:17 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Thrill of a Lifetime

I had the thrill of a lifetime yesterday—literally. I had the opportunity to do something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid. It was maybe the most exciting one hour of my life. I hardly even remember the 4-hour drive home. I was on Cloud Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:59 AM by jprosise | 7 Comments
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As If I Didn't Have Enough to Do Already

The B-25 that I've been waiting on for months finally arrived today. It's a new ARF kit from KMP in Canada, and it's a Christmas present from my wife. I need to buy a couple of engines for it, so I guess that'll be my anniversary present to her. :-) Here's Read More...
Posted Friday, March 11, 2005 10:19 PM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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Update on Project 278

I received several responses from folks who wish to send DVDs and XBox games to the 278th in Iraq. Today I received a package from the Microsoft XBox team containing 10 brand new, shrink-wrapped games to include in the package that we send overseas. This Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:15 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Want to Do a Good Deed?

One of my good friends is in Iraq right now. He's a member of the Tennessee Army National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, which was deployed to Iraq late last year and will be there for at least one year. Through him, I learned about two members Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:06 PM by jprosise | 18 Comments
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Good News About XslTransform

Microsoft says that the performance of XslTransform in beta 1 is NOT indicative of its final performance and that performance will be greatly improved in beta 2. They also intend to do additional perf-testing and tuning post-beta 2. Their goal is to deliver Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:51 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Why is XslTransform So Slow?

Jeffrey and I finished our work in Paris today and are looking forward to heading home bright and early tomorrow morning. As we bid au revoir to France, we're left with a burning question: why is the .NET Framework's XslTransform class so slow? It's no Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:54 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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