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 before I post them, so even though I may be slow...

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 my work laptop (which travels with me) runs Windows...

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 (for example, files containing a "+" sign...

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 make sense as a best practice. One of my favorite...