Someone on a mailing list I'm on passed along the URL to the article " It's a Flat World, After All ," by Thomas L. Friedman , author of " The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ," from which the article is adapted (and which is now on my list of "books to read"). Friedman...

So, the proverbial cat is out of the bag - Microsoft has opened up blogs.technet.com , giving Microsoftie bloggers with more of an IT Pro focus than a Developer focus a place to call their own. Since I tend towards the former more than the latter, my blog is now over on TechNet, effective immediately...

At BlogMap you can geo-code your blog by entering a primary city, zip/postal code, country and your blog feed URL. Then you can link to your own BlogMap or display it as an inline image (you should be able to see a blog map for this blog just to the right of this paragraph) using a fairly simple URL...

Something a little more refined than usual and (for those reading my professional blog) a bit off topic, a list of "life time reading recommendations" was shared by one of the women in a Book Club I'm in: The Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman (3rd Ed, 1988) I'd include the list I received in email...

I was thinking about LUA (Least-privileged User Accounts) and had this little burst of silly creativity that I felt compelled to share on my blog... ☺ Jenni --=+=-- To the Tune of "All you Need is Love" (With my deepest apologies to John Lennon and Paul McCartney) All you need is LUA By Jenni Merrifield...

I was recently involved in a conversation about what was wrong with the current version of the Windows Logo Program. The general consensus was that while it, in and of it self, was a good thing to have and promote, too many of the ISVs (Independent Software Vendors), especially the smaller ones who focus...

I thought I'd start off this blog by introducing myself – it’s nice to know who is talking at you right? My name is Jenni A.M. Merrifield, though (as I'm sure you've guessed) I also go by “strawberryJAMM” here and about online. I work for Microsoft as a User Experience Program Manager (UX PM) for the...