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Kathleen Dollard's view of life and .NET development

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Liking a User Interface
I think it’s important to differentiate between a likable user interface and a good one. A user interface can be likable and bad. It can be good and not likable. I got a comment from my last post that said because someone liked the UI it was good. I disagree...

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The Elephant in the Room
I have a hundred (ok dozen) finished not quite ready blog posts. Except it’s hard to finish them because I don’t particularly like saying hard things. Negative things. Some of which will be brutal to people I have enormous respect for and consider friends...

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Puppy
I brought my new puppy home from Nebraska yesterday. A sweet little eight week old girl (edited: I have no idea what planet I was on when I mistyped this initially). I've had a hard time finding the right combination of home raised and decently bred...

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What a Great Week!
What a Great Week! This week I was the University of Northern Colorado Symphony Orchestra , David Thomas Bailey , Brandi Shearer , and Grace Potter . I was elected an alternate delegate to our county Democratic Convention. I stepped out of my safe little...

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Losing Trust and Moving On
I have been through a difficult week. If you know me, you know I’m an optimist and a trusting person. I trust the world so much that I refused to teach my children to be afraid of it, staring down a pre-school teacher who was horrified that Peter approached...

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.NET Rocks
I’ll be taping .NET Rocks today with Richard and Carl. The show is due to be posted on January 3.

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Los Angeles Masters Series - Workflow on Dec. 1
I’ll also be doing an all day “Introduction to Windows Workflow” talk on Saturday for the Los Angeles .NET Developers Group . If you’re in the area, or can get a great weekend flight rate in, it’s a fabulous deal. I call it “Introduction” because there...

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Thank You for the Carrots
I live in a wonderful world. Sure sometimes people’s own unhappiness and agendas get in the way, but most of the time I am surrounded by kindness. And so are my children. Children need the great gift of building the stories of their lives - experiences...

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A Sufi Tale
To understand my world view, you must know that I painfully came to grips with something described in this story that I heard as a Sufi tale (badly told here, I’m afraid): A farmer had a horse he used to till his field. One autumn day, the horse ran away...

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Among Bytes
I’ve started a new tag called “Among Bytes.” This name honors one of my oldest and dearest friends and favorite blogger – Len Bullard’s “Life Among the Mammals”. Anyone who wonders when I get homesick for Alabama or why I was horrified when an otherwise...

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