I enjoy reading the Bible and I try to read it daily. When I am home I use the Life Application study bible , and it is a great Bible that has helped me tremendously! The only small downside is the Bible is fairly large and when I am traveling I do not always have room in my bag. I know there are...

So as we are heading into Christmas and the holidays, and I thought I would have a little fun with this Fridays post. So I decided to take you through two games I have been having some fun with. The first is a game called Bug Muncher . Very simple game you have a frog and your job as the Frog to eat...

Happy NFL opening week everyone! Welcome to my annual post and by now most of you will already know what one of my predictions will be. We will save that for later. So let’s recap my predictions from last year (you can find them here: 5 Bold Predictions for the NFL 2012 ). I just missed my prediction...

Aright everyone it is that time of the year again for my annual bold predictions for the NFL 2011 Season!  Before I get started lets recap:   Last year was my best year, while I was technically inaccurate with the lockout, I had a solid 3 out 5 correct.  So what is in store for this...

NEW YORK — June 28, 2011 — Today, at media events around the world, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365 , the company’s newest cloud service. Office 365 is now available in 40 markets, and it brings together Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange...

So My son and I love Lego , and I was asked to clean the following up, so I decided to build all the kits.  Anyone want to join me? 

I cannot say it enough to the veterans: Thank you! Thank you for all of your support and sacrifice!  Thank you to my Dad, Barry, Carla and Bill (still active Duty) for being a proud group of Navy Veterans for our country!  Please take time today to thank a Veteran in your life!   I also...

As most of you know my favorite team is the Cleveland Browns.  As you most of you I also love technology.  Well in this Bytes by  TechNet I get the best of both worlds.  I got a chance to interview a friend of mine, Brandon Covert, Director of IT for the Cleveland Browns.  Brandon...

Happy Monday, this was filmed at a halftime show at a US Naval Academy game: The group is called the Kings Firecrackers

So I had to make some new network cables for my house.  I understand the concept of how to make cable, and I have made several cables in the past.  I even have my own crimper and connectors.   I have even taught many folks on how to make CAT5 cable, and even told them about the standard...

Hopefully you have been using Bing a lot lately, if not check out the new visual search beta.  Click on the screenshot to see how it works!

Here is a proud moment I got to witness and extremely lucky one of the team moms (thanks Liz!!!) was video taping that day.  BTW the voice you here in the background yelling go, is little ole me.  I was very excited.  Go Mitchell!

Previously I posted an article about how a divorcee killed her ex-hubby’s avatar.   Well now it seems people love their avatar wives more than their real counterparts: UK couple in real-life divorce

Hola!  Sorry I missed last weeks post but I was way out of town in Barcelona!  I was asked to deliver a breakout session at IT Forum in Barcelona, it was my honor to do so.  It was a lot of fun and my training took a back seat to this opportunity.  At least for a couple of weeks but...

Are you a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ? Do you want to win * some great prizes just in time for the holidays? How does a 8GB or 120GB Zune sound or an Xbox 360 Pro? What you want something bigger, okay how about a: Lenovo T61P!!!! Okay do I have your attention now? First off...

Good day everyone, this book of the month was recommend by one of you !  Thank you so much, however, I did get rid of the email with the name,  Please email me and I will give you some recognition! The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil   is an interesting...

Well folks, it almost brings a tear to my face.  Here is the last Matt and Keith video interview for a while.  We are both getting ready to move into our summer schedules, Keith will be at TechEd and MMS.  My huge announcement below will give you some insight into my immediate future....

It was great when Keith and I got to do the Dallas event it was right in our back yard!  What is even better we got to see familiar faces.  One in particular was a fellow Xbox and soccer parent Matt.  Matt and I met during our sons soccer game and then we found out we were both addicted...

Was the storage link the end of the story?  Nope we still had funding and I had an idea. So where are we: New Router Working: Check! New Storage Link Working: Check! All Hester Networking problems solved: Failed! So what else could I need?  That's right you guessed it a new network ready printer...

I hope everyone has had to change to check out some the recent news around search as well as check out my screencast on Tafiti . I just recently received an email from J. Nicholas Hoover who did another interview with Satya Nadella, Microsoft senior VP. They talked about the search market and where Microsoft...

A lot of you know that I am very passionate about search products and Microsoft. I have published a few articles on the topic: Find Anything With Desktop Search Find It All with SharePoint Enterprise Search I also feel as a company we have a tremendous roadmap for the future search technologies. Well...

Can you believe it my manager told me for my first event in March I am going to have to travel ~4000 miles. My first event is on March 1st and is the last launch event for Microsoft Across America. Did I mention that the event is in Honolulu? :-) I know what you’re thinking tough life. In reality I have...

begin Hank Williams Jr. visualization Are you ready for some VISTA! A Exchange 2003 and 2007 party! end Hank Williams Jr. visualization! :-) Hello Cleveland and Columbus I heading to Ohio the week of August 21st to talk Vista and Exchange! This will be a great trip, I will be in Springfield...

I have some fantastic news, we have just announced, we are giving away Virtual PC for free! Just like April 3rd, when we gave Virtual Server away for free . Microsoft is now offering both of our virtualization tools for no charge, free, gratis, complimentary, on the house!!!! To learn more click here...

Have you ever wanted watch the White Hats and Black Hats battle for the security of Las Vegas? Well guess what you can! The 3rd episode of The Code Room is going to show just that, and answer the question what happens when a Hacker gets in and how to defend against it! The Code Room: Breaking Into Vegas...