http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/02/indigo-is-re-released-into-wild.html

http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/02/to-indigo-clr-contract-is-not.html

http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/02/serviceoperation-wheres-message.html

http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/03/indigo-testing-take-pretty-things-and.html

http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/03/got-indigo-questions.html

http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-right-way-to-dispose-channel.html

Fair warning, I do occasionally blog about non-technical topics.

To answer a question from my comments, the subscription feed for my moved blog is:

http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

 I find that (a) I don’t tend to write very many technical entries on this blog (which offends some readers), and (b) I feel constrained about posting on possibly-controversial topics, like politics or religion.  Not that my thoughts are *that* controversial – and Microsoft has never explicitly prohibited me from saying anything I want – but warranted or not, I can’t help but feel a certain implicit responsibility when posting to an msdn.com site.

Therefore, I’m starting a new blog at http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com.  It will be mostly the same stuff that I have on this blog; probably more of my personal opinions on things.  Don’t expect to see anything that is likely to get me fired.  <grin>  However, once the current rev of Indigo leaves NDA-land, you can expect to see some posts about it.

 Pat Helland just posted some terrible (and terribly personal) news on his blog – my heart goes out to him!

http://blogs.msdn.com/PatHelland/archive/2004/10/28/249133.aspx

Reason #193 why I like working for Microsoft:

I’m leaving work today, and as usual I take the elevator down to the lowest level of the underground parking (there are four underground levels).  I get off the elevator and there, in the elevator entry room I see three of my team mates.  One is on drums; one is on guitar; and the last is on bass guitar.  They’re standing there in the sub-sub-basement, practicing their music.

Now *that* is a garage band! 

 It seems like the week for good customer service on the blogs I read – here we see an example of Home Depot doing right by their customers.

You so often hear about crappy service from credit card and financial services companies; it was a delight to read this very positive report by Chris Sells on BankOne’s actions in response to credit card fraud on one of his accounts:

“Apparently somebody got a hold of the number and started making charges with it today. A $19 charge was approved, but the $331 charge swung the BankOne AI software into action and the charge was declined. They called right away to confirm the activity and when I didn't recognize it, they credited me the $19, canceled the card, put a new one in the mail, sent all three major credit card agencies a notice so that my credit rating wouldn't be affected and put an affidavit in the mail so that I could swear that the $19 charge wasn't mine. All of this defense against identity theft cost me 5 minutes on the phone, a few days wait while I receive my new card, a signature and $0. Amazing.”

 Mitch Denny proposes a very cool idea for popping up in-place GUI when you need to edit a formatted string or other parameter in source code.  He has posted his idea up on the Ladybug site; I’ve voted for it, and you should too!

 Mark Pilgrim explains how there are only two kinds of developer: assholes and morons.

 A friend of mine recently posted about the Microsoft presence in Indian schools.  He points out the great progress that Microsoft has made at Indian universities, and also points out some key areas for improvement.  I hope Microsoft India is reading…