I've been watching with interest the various posts about why there are so few women in tech and what can/should be done about it. This is an area that I have a fair amount of interest in and (of course) some personal experience. So, here's my opinion...

Reading Matt's post about his son reminded me of the process we went through last year when choosing our son's name (actually, multiply this by two, since we didn't know the gender[6]). It must have been a lot easier to choose the names of your children...

If you have data in Excel and you want to hide rows with duplicate entries, it's super easy: 1. Select the data you want to filter 2. Data | Filter | Advanced Filter 3. Click “Unique Records Only“ Excel will then hide rows that are duplicates...

I just stumbled across http://www.dnsstuff.com , which is a handy site that gives you access to a bunch of functionality from one page: Any DNS record Reverse DNS lookup DNS timing Whois Ping Tracert Spam database lookup (150+...

Several years ago, there was an episode of SNL that had one of the segments of “Nick Burns, your company's computer guy” with Jimmy Fallon as Nick, an annoying IT guy who would never let his users get a word in edgewise while he fixed their...

When you've been here for a while, you will eventually run across (or help create) a 'funny bug'. This many people all working together near the end of the ship cycle usually results in a variety of bugs to help let off steam in a creative way. The milk...

In Exchange 5.5, when you emailed a MIME message to a public folder, it would be delivered to the public folder as an email message (message class IPM.Note). In Exchange 2000/2003, this behavior changed, a byproduct of the new support for native MIME...

The crabby[1] office lady wrote another great article this month showing how the ratings customers give to articles on office.microsoft.com result in change. A s a Microsoft employee and a fan of content in general, I am extremely excited by the innovations...

Rick Schaut blogged about vanity plates recently, which reminded me of a few fun ones I've seen: A friend from college had HTTP 80. He is actually the reason that David and I work at Microsoft and is currently a development manager in the Exchange...

Yeah, this annoys me too. I'm not sure why it's the case, although it might be related to this . Fortunately, Outlook MVP Robert has a workaround: http://www.sparnaaij.net/Howto/saveembeddedpictures.htm . It requires VBA but he walks you through it...

From Scot's newsletter , I found this: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ The idea is that you burn these utilities to a CD to have ready in the event you run into trouble with your computer. So when your drive tanks and you can't access your data...

I'm very excited to announce that today we have done two things I've been wanting to do for a long time: #1: With Exchange 2000 SP3 and the latest post-SP3 hotfix rollup (as well as with Exchange 2003 SP1) and a custom tool that one of the Exchange...

You are a GRAMMAR GOD ! If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla It's like a compulsion, really. I get a nervous...

[ramble: on] I really enjoyed John Topley's blog entry this week about the company at which I happen to work. I enjoy getting insights into how other people perceive my group and my company, both positive and negative. Plus, it's always nice to read...

Exchange is so great, even babies know the truth: http://saymail.sympatico.ca/card/2LrNLP_g2bgnDRJBtv.Cqq

I really like Outlook 2003, but one thing drives me nuts on new installs: the added step to change the active view for the currently selected folder. I used to be able to go to View | Current View | (name of view), and now I have to go to View | Arrange...

http://www.seewhogotfired.com The babies in “Suite“ are great (but perhaps I'm biased there - maybe I've been hitting the bottle too much?). The “Feature Rich” one with Clippy is also fantastic. Do they make me want to try...

I'm “speaking“[1] at Tech-Ed, and while completing my registration today, I also signed up for Rio , which is a system that Tech-Ed attendees can use to find and set up meetings with people with similar interests or expertise in a certain...

This link to bios of people on the VS team [2] was posted to Channel9 earlier today, and my first thought was: aw man, they did it before I got a chance to![1] And then my second thought was gee, I really need to get around to putting that together. And...

Yesterday, I stumbled across some great photographs in a building that I spend very little time in. And fortunately, the artist has the pictures up on his web site. It's a simple idea, writing messages in sand and taking pictures of them, but what I liked...

I just stumbled across AllConsuming.net , which looks like a pretty innovative site... it scans weblogs and looks for links to books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other book sites. I t then relates them all together - look up a favorite book to find...

So it took me a while , but thanks to the wiki on Channel9 and Scoble's mention of blog directories , there is now a place for IT bloggers to list themselves . I added the ones in the comments of my previous post to start it off. I sorted alphabetically...

One of my Exchange MVPs just pointed me at this great archive: http://www.ftponline.com/archives/magazines/exchange/ .

UIUC 's a pretty good school. I didn't get around to finishing my degree, but I have always been proud of the school's legacy: HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey was born there. A three year old girl can become (in?)famous just by pushing a button . [2] It...

I have been waiting for this paper to be live for a loooong time! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=847774d9-db4a-444b-a5c9-d0b01958f6b7&displaylang=en Exchange Server 2003 Client Access Guide This guide provides information...