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I'm Mike Pope. I live in the Seattle area. I've been a technical writer and editor for over 35 years. I'm interested in software, language, music, movies, books, motorcycles, travel, and ... well, lots of stuff.

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"Express" yourself

Tuesday, 14 March 2006   11:41 AM

The marketing folks at work have thunk up a contest to encourage inventive ways to use the Visual Studio/SQL Server Express Edition products:

Made in Express Contest
Do you like to use technology to build cool and useful stuff? Do you think you could do it with Visual Studio Express and/or SQL Server Express? Would you like $10,000 cash? Well then we have a contest for you! Learn more at www.MadeInExpressContest.com.

$10,000, dang. :-)

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