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• 2016
• Nov 21Viking Me
• May 6Solitaire Redux
• 2010
• Aug 26The Downside Of Working At Home
• May 7Working Hard: WhirlyBall
• 2009
• Jun 3Helping to set up fireworks for the 4th of July?
• May 26Flinging My 60-year-old Mother High Into The Air
• Feb 19I love Microsoft’s terrible automated voice attendant
• Jan 18There once was a man from Duluth
• 2008
• Dec 16The Poker Brat
• Aug 18DVDFab + My Own DVDs = Couch Convenience
• Feb 1I woke up today and decided to win the lottery
• Jan 30Poetry Proclivities
• 2007
• Dec 27Fingerling Potato Baby Jesus
• Dec 11Here Comes Another Bubble sttto some Billy Joel song…
• Dec 10Win a Trip to NYC + WPF Dream Machine with Your WPF Application Stylings!
• Dec 3StayAtHomeServer.com!
• Nov 24Amazon Kindle Real-Life Review
• Nov 14Free copies of “Programming WPF” for YOU!
• Oct 3Yahtzee Croshaw — You’re My Hero!
• Sep 9I’m an “Uber Cool High Nerd”
• Jun 5What’s your programmer personality type?
• Jun 4A really bad optimization
• May 30Microsoft Surface
• Apr 27Shooting the Sh*t with Scott (part 1 of 2)
• Mar 21Name Sara Williams’s Baby Girl
• Feb 8Slide your vote in for ScottH’s Podcast
• Feb 3Stange But Real Facts
• 2006
• Dec 31On good days, I’m Iron Man…
• Dec 26Special Holiday Episode IV: DBox and ChrisAn
• Dec 21Somebody Diggs Me…
• Dec 14Rory, Distilled
• Nov 11Pies & Marketing Guys
• Oct 28Project Life Cycle
• Oct 18Imitation, Flattery, Nudity
• Oct 11The Positronic Man
• Oct 6I don’t know what this has to do with Vista…
• Oct 2Teaching Kids To Do Cool Computer Stuff?
• Oct 1Null Pointers Don’t Have To Be Dull Pointers
• Aug 30USB MP3 Player + SD Card = Gadget-o-licious
• Aug 30Develop Games For Your Xbox 360
• Aug 28Wikipedia has an open enrollment day…
• Aug 27Fun Presentation
• Aug 23I listen to one podcast: HanselMinutes
• Aug 15Vista Song Parody from Ted + Carl!
• Jul 14I’m on MySpace now
• Jul 5Superman Returns: Boring
• Jun 24Oh La La — Qtek 8500!
• Jun 22Free Portland Code Camp, 7/22-23
• Jun 22My Qtek 8500 should be in my hands tomorrow!
• May 30I wish I had time for this
• May 12Code Monkey: The Song
• May 7There’s a Windows “Brat Pack?!?”
• Mar 15Ninja’s Need Love
• Mar 10Zombie MMORPG
• Mar 9I’m *loving* the new live.com images search
• Mar 3Fabulous Half-Life 2 Comic
• Jan 29IT Crowd: Yesterday’s Jam
• Jan 19Looking for an Xbox 360
• Jan 16My Son’s First Computer Program
• Jan 10The “Famous” Book Fight
• Jan 1A Quote With Which To Kick Off The Year
• 2005
• Dec 29George Carlin’s Incomplete List of Impolite Words
• Nov 26Wasting the Prince of Darkness
• Nov 13Dilbert on Trial Redundancy
• Nov 11Best Exam Answer Ever
• Nov 11Best Exam Answer Ever
• Nov 11Wahoo2!
• Oct 26I’m all ready for 9th grade
• Oct 22Samwise Gamgee was the ultimate Program Manager
• Oct 21@ MS, We Share Your Pain
• Oct 20I’m the “with” @ the Redmond P&P Summit
• Oct 20Top 10 List of Top 10 Lists
• Oct 18Retaking the holy land
• Oct 14Quote of the day
• Oct 13His Outsourced Life
• Oct 10It’s a Windows Life
• Oct 10Shepherd Book Wasn’t Always A Shepherd
• Sep 30Looking forward to “Serenity”
• Sep 29Light Sabers You Can Actually Battle With?
• Sep 15Double Wow
• Aug 29MS Interns Out of Sync (Video)
• Aug 26Avalon + Indigo = Magic @ the PDC
• Aug 24PND For You And Me
• Aug 5Fight Club Rules 9-16
• Aug 5I Love Arguing with Ian
• Jul 20Have Sex With Prostitutes at the PDC
• Jul 17I don’t know who has time for this stuff @ work…
• Jul 6Old Man’s War
• Jul 5Taking a break from writing on Saturday to see FF
• Jun 27The scientists never survive this kind of thing…
• Jun 21On the road to the PDC via Twin Peaks
• Jun 16The logicial conclusion of spam
• Jun 13Me and the Star Wars Gang
• Jun 7Q: What is “funding the clubbing of baby seals?”
• Jun 3IanG Interview on ServerSide.NET
• May 28Darth Vader vs. Yoda?
• May 27Studs from Microsoft
• May 26I am a Gauntlet Adventurer
• May 25XBox 360 Game Videos
• May 24Cat Swimmer
• May 23Episode III: ROTS doesn’t suck and other opinions
• May 2Only Annual Time Traveler’s Convention
• Apr 26Anyone Want To Join Us For Hitchhiker on Friday?
• Apr 13Rory + Scott’s TechEd Video #4
• Apr 13Worth giving up the Omega Speedmaster for…
• Apr 10Hitchhiker’s Guide Is Likely to Suck
• Apr 2Making XML More Aerodynamic
• Apr 1Visual Studio 2005 Linux Edition
• Apr 1Viva la IDL!
• Mar 30Another Laugh Out Loud TechEd Video
• Mar 29Betsy’s Got Them GotDotNet Blues
• Mar 18Who knew the Brits were so randy?
• Mar 16Laugh Out Loud Funny: TechEd Video #2
• Mar 15Lego Star Wars Video Game: Hilarious Fun
• Mar 2Super Friends + Office Space == Hilarity
• Mar 1Tom’s a Big Thinktecture Fan
• Feb 11Project Manager Leavers Suicide PPT Presentation
• Feb 8Trying To Be As Cool As Star Trek
• Feb 5Chris Sells Is Merely an Alter-Ego
• Jan 27SolFX: Much Improved Performance
• Jan 27Schools Ban Camera Phones Amid ‘Happy Slapping’ Craze
• Jan 23Jason Olson’s Microsoft Interview Advice
• Jan 6Welcome to SolFx
• 2004
• Dec 19A Limerick in Rory’s Honor
• Dec 3Pleasantly Undetectable Advertising
• Nov 2There Are No Words…
• Oct 25The Downside of Smart Children
• Oct 9Vermin King With Mutant Arm
• Oct 4Brian Kernighan on Debugging
• Sep 30The GLAT: I couldn’t resist
• Sep 25Clean Sweep @ Casa de Sells
• Sep 23Your distinct personality: The Black Knight
• Sep 18Go See Shaun Of The Dead
• Sep 12Chris and Melissa Go To Burning Man
• Aug 30The One With The Man That Burns
• Aug 25Enjoyed Listening to Charles Petzold on .NET Rocks
• Aug 24Here’s A Side Of The Olympic I Hadn’t Heard Before
• Aug 21“You will have gold pieces by the bushel.”
• Aug 20Some of the MS Interview Process Filmed
• Aug 20Wife Objects To Midget Above The Fridge
• Aug 19Hog Pile on Rory
• Aug 12I’m With David: Doom 3 Ain’t All That
• Aug 9It’s Best To Ignore Rory on IM
• Jul 28OSCON Geeks @ the Portand Nerd Dinner Tonight
• Jul 27Crappy Carl’s Crappy Contest
• Jul 26Bringing “the letter” to Wednesday’s PND
• Jul 24What Kinds of Cars Do Microsofties Drive?
• Jul 22Microsoft runs out of things to buy
• Jul 22DM Karma
• Jul 20Microsoft Interview Questions for Testers
• Jul 19Channel9 Tours MSR H/W and Social S/W Labs
• Jul 9Matt Pietrek, My Hero, Starts A Blog
• Jun 30“If I Could Thunk Once A Day, I’d Be Happy”
• Jun 27Feature Leaked From VS05 Beta 1
• Jun 26The Right Level Of Community Involvement
• Jun 24Swag for the June 29 Portland Nerd Dinner
• Jun 17Whoa. I’m A Banner Ad.
• Jun 15“he isn’t null terminated!” Bwa ha ha ha!
• Jun 14Geek Milkshake
• Jun 5I Knew I Had “Circus Freak” In My Blood!
• Jun 3This Is The Problem With Fame In The IT Industry
• Jun 1Finally, A Use For Orkut!
• May 28Apparently .NET Is About Developer Love
• May 27Can The Movie Be As Good As This Trailer?
• May 186x The MSDN Fun at Tonight’s Portland Nerd Dinner
• May 18Google’s #1 Sells
• May 15Lies, Hypocrisy and the ‘Friends’ Theme Song
• May 5Sells Brothers T-Shirts confer special powers
• May 3“Just think Chris Sells on my TV set!”
• Apr 29Rory Sells His Ex’s Wedding Dress
• Apr 19I Shall Wear My Grammar Godhood With Humility
• Apr 18Chris’s Friends on the Web
• Mar 19Today I Met A Lady Named “Friend”
• Mar 7I Agree: This *Is* Brilliant
• Mar 5Introducing Chris “Flash” Sells
• Feb 26A Redundant Chris Sells
• Feb 2350% Evil is Still 50% Good
• 2003
• Nov 25Oh Lord, I’ve Been ASSified…
• Oct 22The Cow Puncher Punchline
• Oct 19Black Cube for “Chris Sells (Likeness)”
• Oct 10Guerrilla Usability Group Strikes!
• Aug 22A clickable button
• Jul 15The Original ”.NET Redneck”
• Jul 13Fly Daddy Al
• Jul 10Top 10 XML Specifications Rejected by the W3C
• Apr 22“Software Legend” Silliness
• Apr 12The SellsBrothers Little League Team
• Mar 4Grandpa’s Scalloped Corn
• Feb 13What is Meant by “Marketing”?
• Jan 15What OS is Chris?
• 2002
• Nov 15Shtoo
• Oct 25Doonesbury on Blogs
• Oct 10Top 10 Reasons You Know Youve Been Hacking Too Many Web Services…
• Sep 15“Spend A Day With .NET” Winning Entries
• Sep 15“Spend A Day With .NET” Winning Entries
• Aug 25“Spend A Day With .NET” Coding Contest (with prizes and everything!)
• Jul 30My Chris Sells Is A Centerfold!
• Jul 11The Last Advertising Frontier
• May 22Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Computer Boy
• May 18Waka Waka Poem
• May 10C# vs. Java
• Feb 8I Like Clocks
• Feb 2A Little Slice of Time
• Jan 15Welcome to Wahoo!
• Jan 15The Game of Wahoo!
• 2001
• Dec 31My Family Heritage
• Dec 29Elvish in the New Age
• Dec 191970s “wocka-wocka” porno guitar
• Nov 27I am not making this up…
• Nov 27.NET edition of Truckin’ (Grateful Dead)
• Oct 15The F-Key Diet
• Oct 7Bill’s Money
• Aug 15Centerfold
• Aug 15Don Gives a SOAP Talk
• Aug 15This Picture Needs a Caption
• Aug 15Conference.NET Song Lyrics
• Aug 15Mr. June, 2000
• Aug 5Some MORE signs that you may be taking COM too seriously…
• Jul 15Can I still be evil?
• Jun 18Limerick
• Jun 14The .NET
• Jun 1Why I Will Never Offer Don Box A Ride Again…
• Apr 15College Fun
• Feb 28College Fun
• 2000
• Nov 21a poem
• Aug 25These Days its only COM COM COM (Am I Crying)
• Aug 8DM in the Wall Street Journal
• Mar 13Signs that you may be taking COM too seriously…
• Feb 10ATL Borg
• Jan 20In defense of the VB Programmer
• 1999
• Dec 1Abort, Retry, Ignore
• Oct 25Still_Life_with_Aggregate
• Jul 30Computer synthesized song to liven up your day…
• Apr 19Real Programmers…
• Apr 16Signs that you have hired the wrong COM developer…
• Apr 15The Official Guide to COM Culture