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Edward Tufte, master presenter, author and information design visionary will be in Atlanta on March 24th and 25th.  If you haven't seen him, register here.  You also get all four of his books included in the price. I'll be here and if I can go, possibly we could have a meetup with Professor Tufte ...

  I thought I'd put together a list of predictions for MIX 08.  Some could happen, some will happen and some could not happen, you decide! Steve Ballmer gives Keynote in black turtleneck and jeans. IE 8 demo IE 8 uses the ''Office Ribbon'' toolbar. Popfly version 2.0, now with DLR SilverLight 2.0 Expression Design running on a ...

Join all of us and our host, Shawn Wildermuth, for discussions from the Oracle SOA suite (it's not limited to just Microsoft technologies) to SilverLight (Shawn) to LINQ (Jim).  Join us for food, brew and conversation.  RSVP here! http://www.geekdinners.com/geekdinners/DinnerInstance.aspx?id=3  See you Thursday at ...

And win... The good people over at Lab49 (New York's finest WPF consultancy) have a contest focused on using WPF in finance.  I've long felt that WPF is a perfect match for the financial market, due to the rich visualization needs and the shear amount of data.  So here's your chance to take their data and build something ...

Tonight was the Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest at the Atlanta Microsoft office.  I was lucky enough to be the guy that got to wear ''the Master Chief Armour''.  Putting it on took some help, but once it was on you felt like you just wanted to smack some Covenant butt.  Here's the process of putting on the MJOLNIR Armour.  ...

Tonight at the Microsoft office here in Atlanta there going to be nothing but fun at the monthly .NET group meeting.  Doug Turnure, (our local Microsoft Dev Evangelist) will be giving free copies of Visual Studio 2008 (pro) to the 150 people in the door.  So bring your laptop, desktop or tablet PC to load up Visual Studio.  If ...

  I recently returned from a vacation to one of the pioneers of UX, Walt Disney World.  And the thing that impressed me was the experience that Disney wanted you to have.  They want it immersive, consistent, friendly, themed, thrilling yet safe, familiar, and helpful.  They succeed pretty much 100% of the time.  And the ...

Every year we travel to Burt's Pumpkin Farm and get a giant (30 - 40 inch diameter) sized pumpkin.  This year we didn't make it due to schedule and life happening.  I thought I'd throw up a couple of pictures from past years.  ''The Grinch'' from 2002 No skin! from 2004 The Green Man from 2006.   Be safe ...

Ahhh, it appears that I'm a Kinda Dorky Nerd King.