I tried, I tried really hard. I kept hearing from RSS Bandit users who loved it, and although I'm a fairly happy newsgator user and can't imagine switching for my core technical feeds, I thought it might be nice to at least try something else for my more...

I've been suffering silently with this problem for a long time. It happens on all of my machines. Granted, they're all configured almost essentially the same. IE is my default browser. When I type a URL into the addressbar (which I have on my taskbar...

If you find yourself using Advanced Find in Outlook 2003 to look for the same thing repeatedly, choose File | Save Search As Search Folder to persist that search. It will create a new search folder under the “Search Folders“ node in the tree...

You might want to think again . (Side note: at one point, the team of people who were in charge of monitoring Microsoft's Exchange servers and investigating any issues found all had advanced degrees such as Ph.Ds in nuclear physics and the like. Yes...

I am back from The Trip . I survived! Actually, both of us did. And while on this trip, I took the opportunity to write up this little pop quiz to give you an idea of how it went. Q: You are a flight attendant. It is time to serve meals to the cabin....

In the referrer logs for this entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/kclemson/posts/129544.aspx I have this: http://my.webmd.com/content/article/71/81295.htm?lastselectedguid={5fe84e90-bc77-4056-a91c-9531713ca348 } Which doesn't make sense. Webmd isn't...

This is spiffy . I downloaded & played Maniac Mansion for a while. I used to loooove that game. Now all I need is Loom. And Monkey Island.

Can be best summed up by this: ( More brilliance can be found here ) What's really annoying me these days are the magazine articles saying that “Really, what it is is calories - if you burn less than you take in every day, you'll gain weight...

I really enjoyed some of the comments on Raymond Chen's latest entry . As I read them, I thought to myself “Oh boy[1], I need to add a comment explaining that no one ever reads dialogs, so you folks should really stop suggesting that to Raymond...

Josh reminded me that you can post comments via RSSBandit and so I gave it a whirl on my own post. All I can say is: supa sweet. Munish pointed out in the comments on that post that the latest build of RSSBandit is 1.2.0.114, not 1.2.0.90 as Help ...

This love letter to Star Trek reminded me of my own warm fuzzy memory of star trek. I was the youngest of five children. By the time I was in high school, everyone else was out of the house. It was a rough adjustment period for me to be an only child...

The proof is in the pudding. From This is Broken today : This is a screenshot from the "Launch Music on Yahoo!" website. The website displays an article concerning Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). However, the image is of Sebastian Bach, former...

Hell hath no fury like an ebay-aware parent scorned: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62054&item=8107675670

I have been married since August 1999 to the smartest man I've ever known . We have a son, born June 2003 and a daughter, born November 2005. They are my light. They are also the most brilliant babies ever. And the cutest. And the most brilliant...

This is wonderful . It also references one of my all-time favorite Futurama lines: Announcer: And it's a dead heat. They're checking the electron microscope and the winner is... number three, in a quantum finish. The Professor: No fair! You changed...

You can use in-cell editing in Outlook views to change an item without opening it. This is on by default for certain views such as the “Address Cards“ view, see it in action: 1. Select your contacts folder 2. Select a contact 3. Press F2...

Jeremy's asking : So how do you teach people this “art” of digging deep very quickly into unfamilar code that you had no hand in writing? I myself, I come from a very traditional process of learning how to code.. by sitting down and...

Greg did this over a year ago, but I just stumbled on it now. Pretty neat: You can specify in the URL how many entries to return, and which logs to use. For example, http://example.org/Rss.aspx?num=20&logs=Application,System would return the...

Jeff Davis covers some valuable registry keys : PopupMgr - Whether the pop-up blocker feature is enabled or not. This is the checkbox on the privacy tab of the Internet Control Panel. ApplyToWebOC - Applications hosting the webbrowser control only...

Starting next week, I'll be a release manager, as I mentioned before . And I know that it's not necessarily obvious to folks outside microsoft what release managers do. Well, Raymond has a post recently that explains one part of the job : During...

The Exchange team uses sharepoint portal server for a lot of things, such as storing & tracking documents & lists & whatnot. As the release manager, I own the site that has the master schedule on it. There are other teams that used to have...

It may not be immediately obvious, but you can change the columns in Advanced Find the same way you change them in a normal mail view: 1. Tools | Advanced Find 2. Execute the search 3. Right click on a column heading such as Subject and choose Field...

In Outlook 2003, you can change properties on multiple items at once. Some examples of when this is useful is to flag or set categories on the items. 1. Select the multiple items in the view 2. Click the flag column in the default view - or - right...

Defective Yeti explains : Hello! It looks like I am receiving a host of new visitors, thanks to a link on Amazon's new Plog page. A Plog, as near as I can tell, is a "personalized log," and is like a "blog" except you can't personalize it. Also...

If you right click in the folder list in OWA (only available in the “rich“ client which is IE5+), one of the options is “Open in New...“. You might ask - why not just add the word “Window“? There's plenty of space....