By now you’ve likely heard about the tornado disaster today. Oklahoma City isn’t that far north of Dallas/Ft. Worth. Today an EF5 hit that area and destroyed the lives of thousands of people. Nature is a powerful force and it seems the radical nature of our weather it getting more and more extreme. I...

I can see it already.  A remake of the classic “ The Final Countdown ” with drones instead of Tomcats.

In order to do a blog real justice, I am a firm believer you really should want to have a conversation with the internet community, and put some serious energy into it. It’s been a privilege to be a Microsoft spokesperson for many years and I hope I earned your respect. But it had to take a...

Wow. New York Magazine has a fantastic cover photo (pictured below) of New York City at http://nymag.com/nymag/letters/hurricane-sandy-editors-letter-2012-11/ shot by Iwan Baan.  Amazing. See the backstory for the shot at http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/11/more-images-from-new-yorks-sandy-cover.html...

When did America’s Cup change to catamarans? Obviously I haven’t been paying attention but when twitter lit up on this video, I had to check this out.  Reminds me of some motocross endos I’ve done. For the uninitiated, endo is short for end-over-end.

The space pioneer and legend passed away today.  Neil Armstrong was a class act.  My condolences go out to his family, fellow astronaut's, and NASA. He’ll be sorely missed. See http://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/galleries/armstrong.html for more pictures from Neil’s life.

Could someone please explain to me why mini VGA is a port on two of the latest Ultrabook style machines?  The second generation Samsung Series 9 machine, and the latest ASUS Zenbook (not yet shipping) both have mini HDMI and mini VGA.  I get that a lot of you might want to connect the notebook...

Here’s an excerpt from a blog post on the Microsoft on the Issues blog I thought would be prudent to bring to your attention. Posted by Dave Heiner Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards & Antitrust Group, Microsoft Earlier today, Microsoft filed a formal competition law...

When you start looking closely at eBay, it looks like the environment is totally locked down and sellers or buyers are protected.  Think again.  I recently started selling some of my gadgets and a particular transaction on a Zune 80 player went down the toilet.  It ended up ok, but it...

Where do I start?  The past couple of weeks has been a non stop parade of horror and miracles.  It's probably best to start at the beginning, hence the title of this post.  At approximately 3:45am on 8/14 my wife had a brain hemorrhage.  She woke me shortly after and told me something...

Ok, the family outing videos are getting weird.

Caution , we are getting into rant territory with this one. You were warned. Grin. What make and model notebook are you using?  What is the size of your screen?  What is the native resolution of the screen? I really wish I had kept track of all the notebook computers I've used or tested over...

I switched to a small fuel efficient car several years ago. The new CIVICs are pretty nice looking. Time to get serious America.

Looking to get off Windows XP? Use this handy gadget to count down the number of days until Windows XP End of Support (EOS) in 2014.  Someone has a sick sense of humor.  Go get it @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=53a27766-0168-4617-b44e-74b2886cec6d

I’m not sure I’d want to be in this fight for the finish.  See http://consumerist.com/2011/04/worst-company-in-america-final-death-match-bank-of-america-vs-bp.html .

A few weeks ago I received a jury summons.  You know the drill.  As a citizen, you are expected be be part of the judicial system and appear when summoned for jury pools. In this case, I was summoned for Municipal Court. I thought that was a little odd.  I didn’t even know we had jury...

I’m giggling just a bit because I thought today was going to be a boring product announcement day.  Boy was I wrong. Here’s the perfect toy to liven up any product demonstration or presentation.  Grin.  Behold, the Taser C2 .  Now in a range of attractive colors.  Be sure and...

This is one of those blog posts about hardware that makes you go hmmm.  For those of us that spend an inordinate amount of time installing Microsoft products, traveling, and demonstrating capabilities to customers, there are several virtualization maxims.  You can never get enough RAM in a...

You were warned.  Mu haaa haaaa haaaaaa !!!!

This is one of the strangest stories I’ve read in the past few weeks, but it’s something you’ll want to know if you decide to stay at CityCenter in Las Vegas.  I first read about this on msnbc.com then followed the links over to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “The tall, sleek, curving Vdara Hotel...

Might want to rethink a trip to Bermuda this weekend.

Earlier this week the North Texas area experienced some rather severe weather. It all started with tropical storm Hermine which was largely ignored, at first. It became apparent to Texas residents rather quickly this was going to be a vicious and deadly storm. Hermine blew into Texas after spawning...

I was cooling off after working on the pool by doing some net surfing when I stumbled across this.  It is a watch that goes for, wait for it, $525,000 USD.  Seriously?  Note to billionaires, it’s cool you can afford it but really?  Flaunting a half million dollars on your wrist is...

Scott Hanselman was doing an experiment and got sucked into a motorized Dell laptop. Developers, can’t live with em.

This document explains the interdependencies between Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) related to USA Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) smart card logon. Topics concerning the Federal PKI Common Policy Root certificate, Extended Key Usage...