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Hi there.
I have a blog and the template works perfectly on Firefox, but it's completely different on IE (and on Chrome, too).
Probably it's something with the css, but i don't know what, since it works on Firefox...
please, take a look:
[and the css file: http://www.rodadegaia.com.br/style.css ]
Another problem is with the padding on the content div. I put a 30px padding cause I didn't want the content to hit the blue area. However, everytime i write a new post, the 30px padding does a retreat.


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Given several
.xls files with varying number of sheets, I am reading them into
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read.xls from the
gdata package. I have two related issues (solving the second issue should solve the first):
- It is unknown ahead of time how many sheets each
.xlsfile will have, and in fact this value will vary from one file to the next.
- I need to capture the name of the sheet, which is relevant data
Right now, to resolve (1), I am using
try() and iterating over sheet numbers until I hit an error.
How can I grab a list of the names of the sheet so that I can iterate over them?

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Food is a necessity of life, and for many people the same can be said of medicines. Foods and medicines have been for millennia man-made to one extent or another and subject to choice by consumers. Through ignorance or avarice on the part of producers, consumers can buy products that harm, even kill, them. Meet some of the crusaders in the fight that continues to this day to guarantee the safety and effectiveness of what we put in our mouths.
Through tactics like the "Poison Squad," Harvey Washington Wiley waged continuous warfare on adulterated foods and later drugs. The result was the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
A drug-related tragedy ultimately provided the impetus for the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that FDA chief Walter Campbell had long sought.
When people called Mary Engle Pennington "The Ice Lady," it was not because of her personality. She spent most of her career studying refrigeration and how best to use it to keep foods fresh and safe to eat.
Frances Kelsey's diligence helped prevent a generation of "thalidomide babies" in the United States and led to the important Kefauver-Harris Amendment to the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act.
Follow the adventures of eight leading women in chemistry and celebrate their life-changing, chance-taking, thrill-seeking love of science.
The Center for Oral History captures and preserves the stories of notable figures in chemistry and related fields, with over 425 oral histories that deal with various aspects of science, of scientists, and of scientific practices. For more information please visit CHF's Oral History Program or e-mail oralhistory@ chemheritage.org.
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Radius of Rainbowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2004-02-17T00:57:00ZThe iPad Shovelhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2010/03/26/the-ipad-shovel.aspx2010-03-27T00:42:43Z2010-03-27T00:42:43Z
Just read that the WSJ is going to cost $4.15 per week on iPad. That is ridiculous given that the same content is available on the web and on Apple's own iPhone for just $1.99 (and for free within many corporations including Microsoft :)). I think all the media companies that are rushing to create iPad specific apps are being just a bit too hopeful that it will serve as a silver bullet for their sagging profits. I doubt if iPad or any other upcoming consumer tablets are going to change the way people consume digital media (free and on the web).

Actually I expected Apple to extend its dollar-a-song model to iPad as well. I'd have loved to read an excerpt of a story for free with an option to read the entire article for say 10 cents. But Apple knows and so do the media companies, that this model does not work. Though the iPod propelled Apple to number one music reseller in the US, it did little to improve the overall music industry (2008 10-year Music Consumer Trends Chart). So I'm not surprised that the same company that tried to unbundle music albums 8 years ago is selling digital content in packages via subscriptions on iPad.

Well, we'll know soon how it goes. In about a week from now, many people would be proudly strutting their iPads around, wondering what to do with it. I'm guessing reading paid subscriptions won't be among the things that they will use it for. During gold rush, people who made the shovels made the most money. Apple is being smart in being a shovel to the media companies who are trying to gorge paid content down our throats.
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxKudos IE!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2010/03/16/kudos-ie.aspx2010-03-17T05:58:04Z2010-03-17T05:58:04Z
Kudos to the Internet Explorer team, but not just because they delivered an early preview of the latest and greatest browser. Sure the HTML5 support, the new parallel processing script engine and improved standards support are all great. But what I think is really commendable is the fact that the IE blog allows open comments on their entries.

Allowing comments on a blog seems something really obvious right? But don't go looking for a place to comment on the Google Chrome blog or Mozilla blog. None of these so called proponents of open web are open enough to offer people a place to express their views below their blog entries. And how about Apple Safari? Well they don't even seem to have a blog at all.

It might seem a very obvious thing to do but not many corporate blogs allow  their readers a place to comment and express their views on their blogs. For past few years, IE hasn't particularly been the most favorite browser of the developer community. But rather than run away or suppress the criticism, the IEBlog has provided an open platform for everybody on the Internet who cared to share their point of view.

So congratulations IE on the new IE9 preview and for keeping the communication channel open and easily accessible for the web developer community. Kudos!
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxThe real smart carhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2009/01/12/the-real-smart-car.aspx2009-01-13T01:03:28Z2009-01-13T01:03:28Z
Over the holidays, I wrote a small windows mobile app that would let me listen to one of the Bollywood radio stations on my phone. It's very handy to use voice command to start the app and have it play desi melodies as I set out for a long drive over the weekends. Ever since I wrote it, I wondered why my car didn't come with something similar. A unit that can talk to the net through my cell phone's data plan and get all kinds of data such as maps, traffic, weather and even music for that matter.

Looks like somebody in Microsoft Auto group was thinking the same thing. I just saw this modest piece on Engadget about the next version of Microsoft Sync. Though it looks very plain, the coolest part is that "the service uses Bluetooth to tether to any handset, downloading content using a voice call so that you can use this completely fee-free -- even if you don't have a data plan" This is just plain awesome! Now only if they'd put that in a Honda…
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTo get them readinghttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2009/01/07/to-get-them-reading.aspx2009-01-08T06:04:22Z2009-01-08T06:04:22Z
Read a short essay by Adrian Hon about decline in reading. It talks about how people are reading less these days and what would get them to read more. I don't know if people are reading less overall but I tend to agree that in this age of microblogs, twits and SMS, reading a long winding novel or even an essay is rare.

He posits that with the increase in popularity of kindle and other ebook readers, we will see increase in ebook piracy and that would lead to people reading more books. I think anything that transforms from atoms to bits will eventually get pirated. So no doubt that ebooks will get pirated more often but I don't know if an easy access to books will make people read more. Aren't libraries already offering good literature for free? That still doesn't seem to encourage people to read.

As for getting people to read, I think the answer is YouTube. Yes the same video medium that Adrian despises as inferior to books. Let me explain. In Microsoft we frequently have authors visit and talk to us about their latest books. These hour long talks are then archived and are available online for viewing later. Almost all of the books that I have read in the past year or so have been by the authors whose talks I listened to online. Imagine if Amazon put on its pages a 5-10 minute video of the author outlining key ideas of the book. I'd definitely view that as opposed to reading through the first chapter or looking at the table of contents. A video might be inferior but it is great at grabbing attention. It also solves the problem of barrier of entry that Adrian is referring to. One can quickly decide after watching a 5 minute video whether he/she wants to read more about the topic or not. So I think something like that is more likely to get people reading that piracy or Kindle.
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxThe most influential book on Influencehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/10/25/the-most-influential-book-on-influence.aspx2008-10-26T00:18:00Z2008-10-26T00:18:00Z
Just finished reading Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini. This has got to be one of the most convincing books I have read in a long time. I read it as part of an internal study group on Managerial Psychology and I'm glad I did. Though it really is a text book, it hardly reads like one. There are so many cases and anecdotes all throughout the book that it can easily qualify as an easy to read storybook.

All through the book Cialdini talks about shortcuts, our automatic responses to situations such as buying unwanted things at the fear of scarcity, committing to previous decisions just to be consistent etc. There are so many every-day examples in the book that it gives you a constant feeling of déjà-vu as you read the book. At the end of each chapter he also talks about defenses against many such shortcuts. Fortunately these sections are smaller and the author prevents it  being just another self-help book.

Cialidini concludes by referring to the informational deluge that we are facing and noting that such shortcuts can come in very handy to make quick decisions when we are inundated with too much information. The only thing we need to be aware of is that the people are not exploiting the shortcut responses and are not fabricating the information to invoke the shortcuts.

I think the next book I am going to read will be Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. That book also touches upon the subject of quick decisions and should be a good read after Influence.
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMicrosoft Labs: Something between R & Dhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/10/24/microsoft-labs-something-between-r-d.aspx2008-10-24T23:15:00Z2008-10-24T23:15:00Z
Just noticed Soma's post on DevLabs. He introduces DevLabs as a place to share innovations happening in the developer division within Microsoft. This looks like a sibling to already existing Office Labs and  Live Labs. Pretty exciting. Microsoft has a lot of such experimental projects going on in various product groups and this should be a great way to introduce these to the people outside of Microsoft and get their feedback.

We have a research event at Microsoft each year called the TechFest where people in product groups get a sneak peek in the world of MS Research. It's very exciting and inspirational event for people like us who work mostly on end user products. I have always wondered why we couldn't allow people outside of MS to one of these conferences under NDA. Now that we have Microsoft Labs, we have a platform to share these experiments with the world. Way to go! All the best MS labs!!!
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxLala: Yet another business model around selling Musichttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/10/23/lala-yet-another-business-model-around-selling-music.aspx2008-10-23T23:06:17Z2008-10-23T23:06:17Z
Selling music online is an interesting business. So many people have tried their hands at it with so many different approaches… iTunes and Zune were revolutionary. They freed good music tracks from the otherwise mediocre albums. iTunes pioneered this model. Zune went a step further and made it easy for people to access millions of tracks via subscriptions.

There are more such models in the wild. Just heard about Lala which has yet another business model around selling music. Two novel approaches here. 1. Lala let's you listen to your offline music collection from any browser and 2. Lala allows you to purchase a track for listening online for 10 cents. This is one interesting approach to deregulating copy that Lessig suggested.

There's one approach that I want someone to try out. It's music rental. My theory is that a music track has shelf life. You'd hardly hear current chart toppers a few months down the line. Artists and trends come and go. J Lo and Shakira were popular a few years ago so why do people have sunk cost in their songs today? Particularly if they hardly ever listen to them these days.

There are very few tracks that you'd perpetually own and would listen to over and over again. For all other tracks, it makes sense to rent them for a friction of the purchase price and let the DRM expire the track after some time say a year. If I want to own the track for long haul, I can always own it DRM free. This will let me explore a lot of music without having to commit to 15$ per month or spending a dollar a track. This will also let me play all the music that is currently hot without having to pay a lot of money for it.

Restrictive measures against piracy should not prohibit people from exploring music and developing their taste.
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxbeep…http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/10/20/beep.aspx2008-10-21T02:24:05Z2008-10-21T02:24:05Z
Saw the latest Mac ad. In it Hodgman tries to buzz the Mac guy every time he tries to say Vista. These are getting more and more boring, negative and pointless. Come Mac folks, Think different!

Also on the topic of buzzing, while its competitors are busy making bricks and unfunny ads, MS went ahead and got a patent for live filtering of objectionable words.

A lot of people are hoping to see this in profanity filter to show up Xbox and other voice communications, I was wondering how come we never implemented something similar in Live messenger and Outlook for textual communication. May be they expect the authors to do the censoring using backspace and delete keys. There's no undo key in speech, just the post-faux pas words "oops sorry" :)
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxNo Joost for me.http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/10/13/no-joost-for-me.aspx2008-10-14T02:10:14Z2008-10-14T02:10:14Z
Read over at TechCrunch today that Joost has undergone a UI makeover to become an all-flash site. Don't know how that is going to give the ailing site a boost, but good to see that Joost is still alive. They have a great idea; using P2P to deliver streaming video. but I could never get myself to use it. I was one of the early adopters to try the desktop client. It was nice to use with lot of good features but I can't see myself using keyboard and a mouse to interact with my TV. I am too addicted to my media center for that.

In early days, one of the most common feature request on the Joost support forums was for a media center plug-in for Joost. I am surprised that they never made one. However cool media center is, it still lacks a killer app that delivers non-TV content to TVs. TVTonic, my most favorite app on MCE, does that job to some extent but still all it does is to aggregate a bunch of video rss feeds. Joost had all that plus had a social aspect to it. Given the proliferation of Vista Ultimate and XP MCE, such a plug-in would have provided a nice install base for the fledgling software. A good install base would have given a much needed network effect to Joost particularly given that it's USP was P2P streaming + social. I'd have loved to use Joost from my Media Center but alas that never happened.

I really wish MCE provides a platform to broadcast ad supported media over the internet to our TVs. There are a lot of such sites (Hulu, YouTube) that have a such content and I wish I could watch them on my media center sometime. Having some social features that would allow viewing what my family/friends are watching and sending them recommendations/reminders about shows/events right from the MCE UI would be awesome too. First preview of Windows 7 is just round the corner and I have high hopes.
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxPirates to Profits – Deregulating the copyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/10/13/pirates-to-profits-deregulating-the-copy.aspx2008-10-14T01:31:36Z2008-10-14T01:31:36Z
Lawrence Lessig had an interesting essay yesterday at the WSJ. Based on his upcoming book remix, the essay is subtitled "Digital technology has made it easy to create new works from existing art, but copyright law has yet to catch up".

Among the solutions he proposes, the most interesting one is about deregulating the copy, focusing on the ultimate use of the copyrighted material rather than the actual act of copying. It essentially says that the use of a song by a political campaign in a public meeting and by an amateur YouTube mom in a home video has to be treated differently.

Although amateur, the content on sites like YouTube does generate revenue implicitly. It would be unfair to let a company like Google eat that up given that it did not contribute to the content at all, only provided the infrastructure to broadcast it. Sites like Break.com do offer uploaders some share of the revenue but the most popular video site in the world still doesn't.

An ideal scenario would be something like this: You upload your remixed video on YouTube. YouTube parses it to realize that you have used some copyright material. It automatically sets aside a revenue share from that video for the copyright owner and publishes the video.

The current model and the usage of DMCA by sites like YouTube is a mockery of the concept of copyright. It's inefficient, scales poorly and also inhibits creativity of the remixers. Using the remixers' creativity by letting the original copyright owner collect part of the profit would not only encourage such remixes but would also give credit where it is due. Now only if YouTube could be less greedy and bold enough to take such step…
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxThe famous last lecturehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/05/05/the-famous-last-lecture.aspx2008-05-05T22:24:00Z2008-05-05T22:24:00Z
A truly moving lecture by Prof. Randy Pausch of CMU. This guy has incredible story telling skills. He kept reminding me of of Richard Feynman particularly during the first part of the lecture. Coincidentally Feynman lost his life to cancer too…

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Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxNow it's PC's turn to take a shot at Mac.http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/05/01/now-it-s-pc-s-turn-to-take-a-shot-at-mac.aspx2008-05-01T11:24:22Z2008-05-01T11:24:22Z
I'm a new soul I can do this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take

But since I came here felt the joy and the fear finding myself making every possible mistake :)

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Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxNaive Joel on Meshhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/05/01/naive-joel-on-mesh.aspx2008-05-01T11:06:41Z2008-05-01T11:06:41Z
Joel's blog is one of the best resources on the net for software development. I find myself agreeing with him most of the times but his latest post on Live Mesh didn't come out to be as insightful as some of his others.

If you take out his histrionics, Joel's premise is that MS is wasting too many resources in solving the problem of synchronization which doesn't even exist to begin with. His logic is that synchronization must not be an issue as you don't see people flooding numerous other services that provide similar functionality.

So what's Microsoft doing different with Mesh?

One thing I love about Microsoft is that it never stops at writing an app. It always tries to make a platform out of it. Microsoft's past successes have come from generating a critical mass of ISVs around its technologies to create a whole ecosystem of software and solutions. And that's what I see is being done differently in case of Mesh. Sure there are a zillion other applications out there that sync your files across but none of them was written with a vision to make every desktop and device out there a first class citizen of the Net.

Our desktops and other devices (e.g. phone) are like big silos of applications, data and information. They exist as isolated entities that connect to the net primarily through browser. That's the reason we see a crop of these web based applications (even a so called OS) that hardly integrate closely with the rest of my desktop. I think Mesh is trying to break that model and open up those silos so that all my devices and their content is always accessible to me wherever I am.

Sure there are issue like security and access control that would be paramount in such scenarios and I'm sure folks over in Mesh team are thinking hard about it. Frankly, I haven't yet wrapped my head around all the concepts of Mesh but from whatever I have seen it looks a bit too sophisticated to be dismissed as just a file sync app.
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMy search engine is better than your search enginehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/04/09/my-search-engine-is-better-than-your-search-engine.aspx2008-04-10T09:07:00Z2008-04-10T09:07:00Z
Hey you, yes, I am talking to you. I know you use that non-evil search engine. Yes the one with multicolor logo. You think that's the best search engine out there don't you? You are so addicted to it, you even made it your your homepage. Like a lost wanderer, every time you have to find directions to any place on the www, you go to that omniscient oracle of yours and blindly follow wherever it takes you assuming that the best the world has to offer.

Now listen. I've got a news for you. Your search engine is lame! Sorry to bring this disappointing news to you but my search engine is better than your's. 3 times better! Now c'mon don't feel bad. You too can use it if you like.

Here's what you do if you are using IE7/IE8

Browse to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx

In the "Create your own" box on the right side, enter http://mysearchoff.com/?q=TEST

Name it something cool.

Click on install. Make sure that "Make this my default search provider" check box is clicked. That's it.

Suddenly you'll feel enlightened. At least three times smarter than what you felt with your lame old search engine. And if you love typing and prefer browsing to the search engine every time you want to look up something, you can use its address http://mysearchoff.com. While you are there, don't forget to check which of the three search engines is leading in search satisfaction. Tell me if you were surprised. I wasn't :)
Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxHow to beat Guy Kawasaki to a startuphttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/03/11/how-to-beat-guy-kawasaki-to-a-startup.aspx2008-03-12T09:35:00Z2008-03-12T09:35:00Z
I admire Guy Kawasaki and love The art of start. I'd recommend his book to anybody who has ever dreamt of starting anything. So when he announced his latest venture today, I was all ears. It's called alltop. A concept so simple that it'd make you think how come nobody thought of this before... well some people sure did. Ever heard of live.com, my yahoo, igoogle or....? Well there are hundreds of them out there.

Though not original, I would certainly not undermine the idea of an rss aggregator with links culled for the mass market. I am one of those people who use Live.com as their default homepage and rss reader and since switching to live.com I have hardly ever spent time looking for interesting stuff to read in my spare time. Having all your favorite sites at your fingertips the moment you open your browser can be very addictive. I spent a few weeks gathering the feeds that I liked and Alltop saves you the effort by gathering most interesting sites for you. The disappointing part is that I did not see any smart algorithm or customization around the blog selection.

Though it looks quite obvious and simple, I'm sure Guy has plans for the site but in the mean time if you want to beat him to a startup, head to live.com and start customizing your home page. In terms of look and feel, live.com home page is at least as good as alltop, if not better. Here's a comparative screen capture of live (on left) and alltop (on right).

Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWWT @ TEDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2008/02/28/wwt-ted.aspx2008-02-28T08:28:00Z2008-02-28T08:28:00Z
The much blogged about WorldWideTelescope was talked about at TED. Here's a quick glimpse of it. I can't wait to see it live at the TechFest in a few days. Folks at MS research do a lot of cool things that only we had a privilege to look at. I am glad that WWT is getting its fair share of public limelight.

PS: If the video below doesn't load, here's a direct link for you: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/224

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Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAnd I'm reading again...http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2007/09/21/and-i-m-reading-again.aspx2007-09-22T03:43:00Z2007-09-22T03:43:00Z
For last couple of years my reading reading appetite has been sated by the junk news served by digg and reddit. I read it not because it was sensational but just because it was so easily accessible from my live.com page. Thanks to DailyLit, I won't be able to use that excuse anymore.

I came across this really simple concept just yesterday and got hooked to it immediately. They send you books via email or RSS feed. The selection is limited to about 500 public domain books but I'm sure by the time I finish my first book, I'd have many more to choose from.

This reminds me of those good ol' days when we used to browse the internet by our emails using Agora servers. Now here I am on a lavishly fast link and still using a service quite similar to the one in the infacy of the WWW. Anyways gotta go I have my first installment of Lessig's Free Culture to finish.
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It's a general perception that windbg and cdb are tools for a power debugger. Quite true! With the extensions and powerful commands, they provide the toolset you need to literally rip apart any process. Looks like VS debugger is getting there too.

Just last week I realized that Visual Studio 2005 has something called pseudovariables. These curiously named variables can yield you some power that you are so used to in the windbg land. In fact MSDN has documented these for long time.

Managed code can only use the $user and $exception variable of these. Try it out. Particularly $user. It gives a lot of helpful information on process and thread tokens. Pretty helpful if you are debugging impersonation problems in the managed world. Just type it in the watch window and debug away!!!

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The "live" wave has brought some pretty cool products to the web. I was more intrigued by Office live. I thought it was going to be a web based version of Office products but they came out with something totally different. Free domain sounded too good to be true and I jumped for it when I got an invitation to take it on a beta test drive.

Since Office live basics is something that will continue to be free, (and hence likely to be more popular) I decided to try it out. I dawned hat of a small charity NGO which sells handmade greeting cards and donates its proceeds for a social cause. Check it out at AnandwanGreetings.com

Initial setup was surprisingly quick and so was designing the web site. I got it all done in just a couple of hours. The page designer lacks some flexibility but I think the goal was to make it simple enough for a non-techie. My only major gripe was the choice of designs. Simple doesn't have to be unattractive. Hope they get some cool design templates up there before RTM. I'm looking forward to it. In the mean time check out my greetings site.

Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAdministrators? Whats that?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2005/12/25/507349.aspx2005-12-26T04:10:00Z2005-12-26T04:10:00Z
It might not be as glorious as the "root" but Administrators command similar rights and privileges. But not every locale uses that string to identify the all powerful group of users. That might introduce interesting bugs. Even in some microsoft tools.

Use of well known SID is how these sort of bugs can be avoided. .Net has WellKnownSidType enumeration that makes it quite easy but in the unmanaged world, it's a 2 step process. You have to create the SID yourself. The constants are defined in sddl.h to get admin SID you can do something like this:

PSID GetAdminSID()

{

SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY SIDAuth = SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY;

PSID pSID = NULL;

if(! AllocateAndInitializeSid( &SIDAuth, 2,

SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID,

DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS,

0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,

&pSID) )

{

ThrowExceptionUsingHr(HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(GetLastError()));

}

return pSID;

}

Make sure that you free the SID created above using FreeSid()

Edit: Michael Kaplan has more details about the bug in Microsoft tools that I was referring to above.

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This peace eye rote is rite, eye no;
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Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxPirates to profitshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2004/05/22/pirates-to-profits.aspx2004-05-23T09:08:00Z2004-05-23T09:08:00ZThere's unrest in the music industry since last couple of years. Napster and its cousins have created agitation in their camp. The industry has fought back with measures ranging from suing creators and users of p2p services to educating users about the misuse and swamping these networks with fake copies of media. Artists like Metallica and Madonna have personally picked up the gauntlet and reached out to the users asking them to stop sharing files online.

But sometimes I wonder is the hubbub they are making really worth it? Do the Goliaths of the music industry really need to lose their sleep over these p2p Davids? Isn't there a better way of dealing with this?

Size of the music industry worldwide is estimated to be about 40 billion USD and its loss due to piracy overall is 4.5 billion. Though the exact amount of losses due to p2p file sharing are difficult to calculate, I'd think that its still less than the 2% of the total sales at about a 800 million.

Consider on the other hand the internet porn industry, one of the largest businesses online. Estimated at the size of about 3 billion, this industry, though small as compared to the music industry, is loosing a big chunk of its revenue due to these p2p networks. It's a fact that most of the files traded over p2p network are porn. But then why aren't they making any noise? Shouldn't they be blocking porn downloads or flooding the networks with bogus files? Is it because they are too small? Is it because they are into this "unethical" business and hence can't come out in public and denounce this? No. It's because they have an alternate way of doing business.

Internet porn is one of the few profitable businesses online. This industry supposedly has given rise to many internet advertising and user profiling techniques including pop-ups, site referrals, user tracking etc. And they are handling this issue in a different way - Porn Strategy: Share and Snare

Rather than preventing users from accessing porn through p2p networks, they are looking at it as a way to reach targeted audience. A potential buyer looking for a specific thing is a dream of any salesman and that�s what Kazaa and Gnutella are bringing to the doorsteps of these guys.

It beats me why the music industry can't think of the p2p users this way. Recently Apple was forced to remove p2p capabilities from iTunes because it did not please the big music labels. I feel rather than spending money in suing their own customers, the music industry should rethink its view point and spend that money in developing technology which will help users to preview, buy download and share music online. It will not only help boost sagging music sales but will also go long way in making online music experience enjoyable.

Ashutosh Galandehttp://blogs.msdn.com/Ashutosh-Galande/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxGood virus/Bad Virushttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashutosh_galande/archive/2004/02/17/good-virus-bad-virus.aspx2004-02-17T11:57:00Z2004-02-17T11:57:00ZMicrosoft has always been blamed for being a monopoly. But Dan Geer went further ahead to term it the cause of a monoculture. Here's the famous paper where he comapred the Internet to Microsoft Monoculture! According to him the network could be sharing a single flaw and can be brought down by a virus exploiting that flaw! Pretty interesting concept... though a bit far fetched I'd say.

Most of the latest viruses have spread more due to gullible users and poorly maintained systems. The OS is just a part of the whole ecosystem that could turn into a monoculture. A careless system administrator who poorly manages his network or a naive user who believes that its perfectly fine to open attachments from unknown people make the network more vulnerable than just the machines.

Thinking about viruses and patches, I wonder why doesn't Microsoft or any other software vendor deploy a viruslike patch management system. I system which tries to find vulnerable computers by attacking and just patches whenever it comes across one. This would be so easy to manage and deploy for an organization. Particularly where not all of the machines are connected to the internet and hence cannot benefit from the automatic patches provided by Microsoft.

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In the most simple terms, latency is another word for delay, or lag. When you send or receive information over the internet it has to travel a maze of cables, routers, and other transmission equipment to get from one point to another; if it takes a long time the latency is said to be large.
When a packet of information is sent, a variety of factors may cause latency; first is simply the distance it has to travel. Then there's the type of transmission (fiber optic, WiFi, etc). As mentioned above, routers examine each packet, possibly updating information in it such as the hop count. And of course there are computers and hard drives that can introduce latency as well.
When the latency is very small, it's usually unnoticeable. When latency creeps up it can become annoying to the user experience, or in an example such as a video game, make it absolutely unusable; imagine a driving game in which you see a curve and try to steer into it, but the latency is so high that by the time your computer's packet that says you turned the wheel reaches the destination computer, you've already crashed.
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My YDD, who is 6, has not reacted well when we have mentioned the possibility of a new baby. She cries, tells me she will move out and wishes that she had never been born. What troubles me is that this is totally uncahracteristic behavior for her. She is lovable, sweet, easy to work with, and very much a mama's girl. But the mention of a baby flips her out...instant tears. She doesn't seem to like babies in general, seems uncomfortable around other babies, doesn't like looking at baby stuff, has even said when she has her own babies that she will give them to her sister. I am not planning on telling her until furhter into the pregnancy, probably around the five month mark. But I feel like I will break her heart and ruin her life when I do. This is new to me since ODD was an absolute angel about becoming a big sister. Anyone BTDT or have any advice?
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Sounds to me like she enjoys being the baby herself and doesn't want to give it up. She's 6, it won't ruin her life to have a little brother or sister. Once the baby gets here she'll love it so much. When my younger sister was born, I was so jealous, but I got over it fast. We were always inseperable growing up and still are to this day. We talk on the phone everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. Just have a talk with her to try to figure out why she's so against it. She might just be insecure that you'll love a new baby more than her.
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Thank you. My biggest fear about all of it is a strained sibling relationship as adults. My two girls right now are really close even though there are four years between them, and I so want the same thing for the new baby. It helps to hear that you and your sister are close even though you had rough beginnings.
Thank you laidies. I haven't told her we are expecting yet, but I had a a good talk with her about it after DH's mention of a baby sent her into her room crying. We talked about lots of things, both serious and superficial. She is still far from sold on the idea, and has claimed that she will not ever play with a baby, but I think we at least got a dialogue started that we can add to over the next few months.
Does she enjoy playing with babies at all? Could you take her to the store and pick her out a baby doll, a stroller, baby carrier?
Can u have her feel ur belly when it starts growing and feel baby kicking?
Hope something will help ease her anxiety.
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Concussion Group Says Ex-NFL Player Bubba Smith Had CTEThe Concussion Legacy Foundation says former NFL defensive end and movie actor Bubba Smith was diagnosed with the brain disease CTE by researchers after his death.
Court Upholds $1 Billion NFL Concussion SettlementA federal appeals court has upheld an estimated $1 billion plan by the NFL to settle thousands of concussion lawsuits filed by former players, potentially ending a troubled chapter in league history.
Browns Deny Lying About Johnny Manziel's ConcussionThe Browns say Johnny Manziel was diagnosed with a concussion late in the season by an independent neurologist
Will Smith Joins Wife In Oscars BoycottWill Smith said that he will not attend the Academy Awards next month, joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others in protest against two straight years of all white acting nominees.
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Hi guys me and leo went on our date and it was amazing. We watched a movie he rented for me and made out. I took your advice lady leo and i told him I liked him but wanted to take it slow. I told him i want to know him more before we do more intimate stuff. I said that a lot od guys may get t early and then leave. He said "well I am the type of guy that once i start, i want it even more haha"//
Anyway he said lets see a movie 2 days later, but i cancelled that day bc I was sick with monthly cramps (i get it really bad first day). He checked up on me the next day. The next day later there were so many flirty messages from girls on his myspace. One hot friend of mine emailed him a complement, and he private messaged her tht "i am going to cook dinner for my friend babykaykesiam" !!!
He doesnt know we are close friends, she is just on my list.
So why did he write her that and why did he say I was his "friend"... does he not want more with me?
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I'm trying to do some parameter estimation and want to choose parameter estimates that minimize the square error in a predicted equation over about 30 variables. If the equation were linear, I would just compute the 30 partial derivatives, set them all to zero, and use a linear-equation solver. But unfortunately the equation is nonlinear and so are its derivatives.
If the equation were over a single variable, I would just use Newton's method (also known as Newton-Raphson). The Web is rich in examples and code to implement Newton's method for functions of a single variable.
Given that I have about 30 variables, how can I program a numeric solution to this problem using Newton's method? I have the equation in closed form and can compute the first and second derivatives, but I don't know quite how to proceed from there. I have found a large number of treatments on the web, but they quickly get into heavy matrix notation. I've found something moderately helpful on Wikipedia, but I'm having trouble translating it into code.
Where I'm worried about breaking down is in the matrix algebra and matrix inversions. I can invert a matrix with a linear-equation solver but I'm worried about getting the right rows and columns, avoiding transposition errors, and so on.
To be quite concrete:
I want to work with tables mapping variables to their values. I can write a function of such a table that returns the square error given such a table as argument. I can also create functions that return a partial derivative with respect to any given variable.
I have a reasonable starting estimate for the values in the table, so I'm not worried about convergence.
I'm not sure how to write the loop that uses an estimate (table of value for each variable), the function, and a table of partial-derivative functions to produce a new estimate.
That last is what I'd like help with. Any direct help or pointers to good sources will be warmly appreciated.
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- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups flour (sifted)
- 1⁄2 cup cocoa
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 teaspoon baking soda (heaping)
- Combine first eight ingredients into a mixer and beat well.
- Add baking soda; with mixer on low, slowly add boiling water.
- Line two 8-inch round pans with wax paper.
- Grease and flour the sides.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Cool for 10 minutes then remove from pans.