For certain types of folders, you may find it useful to have the folder list display the total number of items in the folder, not just the unread items (which it does by default). For example, I set this on some folders that contain messages to certain...

Customizing OWA themes is quite simple to do. Here's an example of a theme I just put together, I call it "MOOWA": The fun part about this theme isn't so much the graphics as the sounds: included are a "mooooooooo" for the new mail sound as well...

These are so cool. [via Nino ]

Check out the feature list for this cool Beaker doll : Features: The Beaker 18-inch Plush doll is a must for any fan of The Muppets. Perfect for the collector and a great gift to brighten one's day. 'Meep! Meep! Meep!'

I occasionally get requests for examples of how customer feedback changed something in Exchange. We live and breathe customer feedback, from individual devs/testers/pms up to our VP, but it's probably not obvious unless you're a member of the group seeing...

We're looking for a few good limericks! Check out my post on the Exchange blog .

(Just kiddin' :-) I just bought a ticket to BlogHer '06 . Are any other softie bloggers or readers of softie blogs going? Leave a comment or trackback here if you want to get in touch. I'm also thinking about proposing a " Room of Her Own " topic...

This is fascinating . [Updated after Eric's comment to add something dorky: I pulled out all of the numbers he used in his first blog post (excluding the code) and calculated the ratios of leading digits. My research found that 1 was the leading...

What a weird day. At 9:30 this morning, out of nowhere I started to have severe vertigo and nausea. I managed to crawl to the phone to call David to come home, and then I called the 24-hour dial-a-nurse line and she asked me to try to stand up, which...

I grew up in the Chicago area and one of the delicacies of my childhood is stuffed pizza. I know plenty of restaurants in Chicago who make a great stuffed pizza but I have yet to find it anywhere else. We found this recipe for making it at home (spinach...

While shopping for trains for a gift for my son (I think we've settled on this one - what do you think, isn't it nice?), I was bored enough that I started wondering what nuggets http://www.tinyurl.com had hidden behind its random letters and whether or...

See if Raymond's tip works for you.

She's da bomb. And in preparation for my return to work in February, we've introduced her to the bottle:

Who regularly types " HEPA " instead of " HIPAA "? I can't help it, I've lived with HEPA a lot longer. It is more than a tad embarrassing when you do it in email to a guy who lives and breathes such things though.

to Audrey Julia Lemson, who joined our family this morning at 12:28 AM, weighing 8 lbs 12oz and measuring 20.5" tall.

A few years ago I lost a lot of weight, and I found that " The Hacker's Diet " was a very useful tool for me in that process, it applied geeky skills to the weightloss process and it Just Made Sense. For example, it used moving averages to distill the...

At lunch the other day, someone asked me how far along I was, and I said "three weeks until RTM" without even thinking about it. Oops. I mean, I've joked along those lines before, about ha-ha it's our product named Lemson 2005 or our second "service...

But that wouldn't be very realistic of me, now would it? In a few days I will have what them fancy doctor-types call "a full term baby" inside me, in addition to a full time job and a full-energy toddler. I'll be on maternity leave for November, December...

I was pointed at this by the MSHelp MVP Lead, it's a sweet little freeware app, works great. Within about 90 seconds of starting it, I had compiled my first CHM: http://www.vizacc.com/ And they also have a blog , pretty nifty.

It was only nine months ago that I blogged about a career change , and here I am again, blogging about how I changed jobs. Normally if I saw someone skip through jobs as quickly as I've been doing in the last two years, I'd wonder about their work ethic...

While ego surfing I just ran across this handy list of cheat sheets that I wanted to share. Covers topics from HTML to networking to office apps to keyboard shortcuts to SCSI to math. Handy.

With Exchange 2003 SP2 around the corner ( check out the CTP! ), the emails have started coming: "When will you ship? I mean the real ship date." Release managers get a ton of them, they are often sent to the internal product's distribution lists, and...

Over the last three or four years I've seen an increasing trend here at MS: complaints about off-topic discussions on DLs. A thread will start out on a DL and (since we're all human), at some point (if the thread is interesting and complex enough), someone...

But boy, do I wish that Safeway would prioritize the featureset of their website better... specifically, they need to prioritize "Stuff KC wants" at the top. Their search engine - i.e. the way I find 90% of the things I'm looking for when shopping...

A while back I posted on how to use ldp.exe to look up a user in the AD . I left out an important part, which I learned today thanks to the tireless Nino Bilic . In any LORG, the list of users in a given container is likely to be so large that browsing...