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Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:13 PM

WiX Working Group video of the night, Star Wars for those who haven't seen it.

I was raised on Star Wars. My Mom took all the good parts of Episodes IV - VI and incorporated them into my life. Thus it never ceases to amaze me when I find someone who hasn't seen at least the original trilogy. I mean seriously how do you make it through life just trying?

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Rob Mensching
Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:13 PM

WiX Working Group video of the night, infinite loop.

As you may have guessed from my cryptic tweets, I was in Cupertino, CA for a couple days this week. I spent the two days talking to a team at Apple about the Windows Installer in general and the WiX toolset in specifics. They already use WiX v2.0 for many of their products so I spent most of the time reviewing their .wxs code, suggesting improvements they could make now and advantages WiX v3.0 would provide.

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Rob Mensching
Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:13 PM

WiX Working Group video of the night, I see blue people!

Tomorrow my team at work is going to see Avatar. I saw the movie when it first came out with my wife and a couple friends. But at the time we just went to a normal showing without 3D. Since then, I've been told that the 3D version is a sight to behold. So, I'm kinda' excited that our team is going to the local IMAX theater to see a larger than life 3D Avatar.

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Rob Mensching
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:29 PM

Kid Beyond's Amplivate blows my mind.

Okay, last week I posted a video of Jonathan Coulton and Kid Beyond. I had never heard of Kid Beyond before but his beatbox skills impressed me so much that I immediately ordered the album. Well, the album showed up yesterday afternoon. I ran up to my office, popped it into my computer, ripped the CD and let it sync down to my Zune. I listened to the album while answering emails for a bit before going to bed. But it wasn't until I was on the bus this morning with my headphones jacked in that I really came to appreciate Amplivate. When Mothership came on, I it cranked up and started bobbing my head to the beat with a huge grin on my face.

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