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Notes (technical and not so technical) from the Microsoft Field.
Last post
I won't be updating this blog any longer. My new site should be live - https://www.hirlpoo.com. It...
Date: 12/15/2006
Leaving Microsoft
After three and a half years of supporting production developers, I’ve come to realize how much I...
Date: 12/12/2006
On leave
I'm currently on infant care leave and may or may not be posting stuff over the next month or so. At...
Date: 10/20/2006
Doughnut to Sphere
I can't remember who turned me on to Ze Frank, but it is a welcome break once in a while. Today's...
Date: 08/22/2006
Develop Without Borders Contest
Having spent the past few weeks assiting a customer on some Word Addin issues, I've come to like the...
Date: 08/17/2006
Playing with Writer
Though hardly breaking news at this point, I'll point folks to the new Windows Live Writer blog...
Date: 08/14/2006
Time Zones in Outlook 2007
I've been using Office 2007 since sometime between Beta1 TR and Beta 2. (I'm currently on a post...
Date: 08/14/2006
Comment Spam
I just got my first rash of comment spam - now I feel like a real blogger.
Date: 08/13/2006
Floating Bed
I saw a lead photo for this article. A Dutch designer created a floating bed based on magnetic...
Date: 08/08/2006
On being "super excited"
Dare posted on this last week, but I got my second email today where someone was "super excited" to...
Date: 08/08/2006
Code Access Security and User Controls
About a week ago I helped troubleshoot an issue where a customer wrote a WinForms User Control and...
Date: 08/08/2006
Windows Command Line Auto Completion
Having explained this to a number of people in as many days, I thought I'd share this tip for...
Date: 08/03/2006
Cal Roach Signs on
Cal Roach knows a ton about all kinds of music. Along with his girlfriend, Jennifer, they have...
Date: 07/18/2006
The Evolution of Dance
This is quite funny
Date: 07/11/2006
Cool Notepad Trick
This neat trick came across on an internal alias. I hadn't seen this before, but I'm guessing it...
Date: 07/06/2006
Sweet looking car
I realized I'd left my phone in my car, so I took a quick jaunt out there to go grab it, and this...
Date: 07/06/2006
Meeting the legend
I'm traveling to Redmond next week with a customer for a briefing. One of the evenings we are...
Date: 07/06/2006
New Windows Local Live Features - Milwaukee Traffic
I was looking at some of the new features of WLL and saw that there were a few collections of...
Date: 05/30/2006
On being your family's tech support
Though I can't say I've been through anything quite this rough, everyone I know has been through...
Date: 04/14/2006
Not exactly loving hotel internet services.
I had a spare moment and was going to go through some unread stuff NewsGator pulled down for me, and...
Date: 03/31/2006
Gmail recipes
I have a gmail account that I rarely use, but will from time to time to test out various email stuff...
Date: 03/21/2006
"Invalid Parameter" when receiving from a remote queue
I'm backing up a colleague who is out on vacation this week and got an interesting issue from one of...
Date: 03/17/2006
KEXP video
Even though I don't live in Seattle I love KEXP (almost as much as WMSE, but then again having spent...
Date: 03/14/2006
Stale
Pretty stale posts here, if I don't say so myself. Can't say I've really been inspired by anything...
Date: 10/24/2005
HOWTO: Not have an unpublished number and still pay for it
I start this post off by saying I've been a TDS Metrocom customer for almost five years now. When we...
Date: 09/07/2005
Mmmm Coffee
Though it has been open since April, I’ve only just discovered the new Dunn Bros. Coffee shop on...
Date: 08/15/2005
BlogJet Test
Someone steered me toward BlogJet as a posting client, and this is the obligatory test post (at...
Date: 06/03/2005
Google sightseeing
I'm late to the game on this, but I'll give a shout out to Google Sightseeing as one of the better...
Date: 05/18/2005
New customer
I just got assigned a new customer yesterday, which is pretty cool. My account load has been less...
Date: 05/06/2005
Now on MSN...
I took the plunge and set up a "space" on MSN. I've always felt a little reluctant to post...
Date: 04/11/2005
The lengths spammers go to
I got an ad from Time Warner Cable in my road runner account asking me to switch to their phone...
Date: 04/07/2005
Changes to authentication in XPSP2
One of my customers ran into an interesting issue when upgrading their developer workstations to...
Date: 02/16/2005
Alton Brown in Milwaukee tonight!
According to his web site, Alton Brown of Good Eats fame (the nerd's chef) is going to be in the...
Date: 01/21/2005
What happened to the dual categories in Money 2005?
Another one on the MS Money front - the default for Money 2005 is one categories field that has sub...
Date: 01/21/2005
Cool MS Money 2005 trick
I was an avid Quicken devotee going all the way back to the old DOS version, but in an effort to be...
Date: 01/13/2005
Dang
I feel a little like Jim Anchower in saying this, but really haven't written anything here in a...
Date: 12/09/2004
Disabling the animated CallerID on the Audiovox SMT5600
As I've mentioned earlier, I've traded my Samsung SPH-i600 Smartphone for the hot new Audiovox...
Date: 11/02/2004
Its going to be a long night
Waiting up following election returns is going to pale in comparison to the late night next...
Date: 11/02/2004
Bose SoundDock review
What I find interesting in this Engaget review (or is it really a review of a review – I...
Date: 10/21/2004
Yet another phone
I've been going through phones like nobody's business lately, but finally landed with one that I...
Date: 10/21/2004
Whoops
https://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0929043limeade1.html
Date: 10/01/2004
Hold music
Color me easily amused - I was on the phone today handing off one of our customers to the support...
Date: 09/30/2004