Me, and My...Blog As I've noted previously, I'm a terrible, terrible blogger. It's not that I don't have content for this blog, mind you. It's that I have a whole pile of it backed up, waiting to be polished and published. However, before I can post...

I am a terrible blogger when it comes to timeliness and consistency of post intervals. I admit it. All I can say is, it has been a busy summer. I actually have a half-dozen posts queued up for publication, but each needs to be scrubbed and fleshed out...

Admin-Free Active Directory If You Haven't Been Hacked, You May Not Be Looking Closely Enough Clearly, I am not the most conscientious blogger, as can be observed by the lack of any posting regularity here. This is in part due to the fact that for...

So, it turns out that if you don't sign into the Zune marketplace for 30 days, all of your DRM'd content expires. I got a new 64 GB Zune HD recently and couldn't figure out why it was loading so slowly. I usually just sync my Zunes when I'm home, because...

If you have migrated or upgraded the sites on which you host your CA CRLs and delta CRLs to IIS 7, you may have noticed a (rather frustrating when you're experiencing it) new behavior. IIS 7 will, by default, reject requests containing double escape characters...

First, the warnings: 1. Sometimes I am a bit of a salmon, meaning that I have a tendency to swim upstream, metaphorically speaking. More specifically, I like to take current thoughts around "best practices" and pick them apart to see if they actually...