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April 2005 - Posts

F-16 Crash Video

I came across this picture of an F-16 coming out of a split-S at an airshow. The pic was taken just before the jet crashed (the pilot performed the maneuver with too little altitude), and you can see the canopy flying off and the pilot ejecting: http://www.rapp.org/wp-content/012604-f16_crash.php Read More...
Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 2:34 AM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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Triple Threat

While waiting on Whidbey beta 2 bits to finish downloading this morning, I took my R/C warbirds out to the driveway and snapped some pics. This is the first time all three of them have been in flying condition at the same time. In this shot , you can Read More...
Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 4:51 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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Check Out the Digital Duo

My old friend Steve Manes is at it again. He and I were columnists together years ago at PC Magazine, and when I go to Redmond during baseball season, he and I often get together and go to Mariners games. He went on to write for the New York Times, Forbes Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:01 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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NYC at the Speed of Light

Yesterday was a long day. I got up at 4:15 a.m., drove to the airport, and caught a 5:50 a.m. flight to LaGuardia. I cabbed into the city and did two talks on ASP.NET 2.0 at the Microsoft Financial Services Conference. Then I met Charles Petzold and MSDN Read More...
Posted Friday, April 22, 2005 6:04 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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At Long Last: Beta 2!

It's official: Whidbey beta 2 is out. You can download beta 2 of Visual Web Develeper from http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/getvwd/ . It's time to begin porting all that beta 1 code to beta 2, or to dive into Whidbey if you weren't on the bandwagon with Read More...
Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 12:52 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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Random CompSci Research Paper Generator

Francesco Balena turned me on to this litte gem written by some MIT CompSci students: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ Next time I'm asked to submit a paper for a conference, I'll know exactly where to go. :-) Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 16, 2005 12:12 PM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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XBox in Iraq

I just received e-mail from a friend in the 278th. His unit just returned from an “outing” that had them out of the office for several days. He e-mailed me a picture of the soldiers enjoying their new XBox . Looks like they're playing football Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:18 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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Up for Air

Whew! I've come up for air after a busy last few weeks. I'm still on a high after spending spring break in Grand Cayman, where my family logged a total of 40 dives. My son did 16 dives, I did 13, my oldest daughter (and newest diver in the family) did Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 13, 2005 6:04 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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