I learned a wonderful trick today that completely resonates with me, and I wanted to share it. Perhaps I should start a new program management category for this kind of thing, seems like I've been writing about it a lot recently. The problem: You have...

An article in the Seattle PI that's making the rounds of the internal DLs this morning prompted me to write this. I hope this doesn't come across as belittling or admonishing anyone who's griping about any of the individual changes - we all need a place...

As I promised before ... it's now live. A ton of kudos for the mscom team for listening to community feedback and implementing these great features. RSS Feed that points at the root of all the blogs registered for Exchange [i.e. a notification of newly...

I've been reading up a lot on strategies to motivate employees and increase morale, and I ran across this article , which has the following in it: 1. Watch how you're standing. Men enjoy standing side by side when speaking to one another. Women...

I decided tonight that I wanted to make a font out of my own handwriting. Surely it's possible to do this online with my tablet and get instant gratification, I thought. One quick google search later and 9 dollars later, I had my answer: Yes, via www...

Yesterday was my birthday. (pause momentarily for rampant 'wahoos'. Done? OK, back to the program). I procrastinated and my driver's license has now expired. I've been dreading the DMV trip... last time I went more than 5 years ago, I thought I'd be smart...

A few months ago I posted about [what I think is] a neat way of using Outlook's ability to save as HTML . Today when compiling a powerpoint presentation , it occurred to me that there are a lot of formats that Office applications can save into that I...

I'm so psyched. I just saw a build on the internal staging server of our community page , where it was displaying bits and pieces of Exchange blogs from the community (not just Microsoft). I'm told that they're troubleshooting some issues with getting...

By default, IE makes a clickety sound when you follow a link. It can get annoying after a while. Here's how you turn it off: 1. Open the control panl 2. Open the “Sounds and audio devices properties” applet 3. On the Sounds tab, scroll...

I learned last week about this amazing product, Crayola Color Wonder (with C o l o r W o n d e r T e c h n o l o g y (tm)). C o l o r W o n d e r T e c h n o l o g y (tm) lets Crayola sell markers, finger paints and other sorts of items that are usually...

I reserve the right to edit, delete, or ignore any comment. I don't delete comments disagreeing with me, but I do delete comments that show offensive or abusive language or behavior, or comments that seem to be from someone misrepresenting him/herself...

I'm tired of having to look up the query syntax every time I need to do it, so blogging it: 1. Start ldp.exe 2. Connection | Connect and choose your DC 3. Connect | Bind and authenticate 4. View | Tree and browse to the top-level OU from which you...

I got myself into a bad state a while back where I was unable to open messages attached to other items. It happened while I was monkeying around with this custom form which adds a column to the view. I don't remember exactly how I got into the bad state...

Normal parents would track a baby's progress by noting when he first learned to sort things , such as put the square block in the square hole and so on. Geek parents, on the other hand, eagerly await the day that their babies learn bubblesort. (For the...

In OWA 2000 SP2, we added some registry keys to control certain behavior related to attachments. We needed the keys to be set by default, so I talked to the setup team, and they agreed to make the change. I sent them a mini speclet where I described that...

I just got a new desktop machine and was faced with this problem: How to transfer the ratings when I move my music collection from the old machine to the new? I have over two years of metadata stored up on which songs I like, and I'd hate to lose it....

I just ran across this interesting source of information on the physiological mechanisms of how the human body processes & burns calories. It's well balanced in its approach, continually emphasizes the basics rather than the fads (”Burn more than...

PMing is an odd thing. Sometimes it's difficult to figure out what you did all week, especially if you don't want to use words like 'unblocked', 'enabled' and 'drove'. You might spend a large portion of your time simply following up with other people...

Check this out . How great is that? And to think, when the folks who created SMS were dreaming it up, they probably had much simpler ideas in mind... [ via Patrick ]

In certain Office apps that support it, such as Word & Outlook, I have “Show shortcut keys in screentips” enabled (right click on a toolbar, choose customize, and it's on the Options tab in certain of the apps). Normally, this displays...

First we had songs written about spam . Now there are poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by spam subject lines.