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Friday, August 21, 2009 9:53 PM

BlizzCon 2009…..

Today I was at BlizzCon. This is a sort of annual convention put on by Blizzard Entertainment and geared toward fans of the Diablo, Starcraft, and World of Warcraft franchises. While I played Diablo 1 and Starcraft 1, I was there for the Warcraft experience.
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Monday, August 17, 2009 6:03 PM

Home Network Upgrade on hold…..

Wow….when things go bad, they go really bad. Late last week you may have seen a few tweets from me about a Terastation I have that lost a drive. I have two of the 1.6 Tb models and they have both been running 24x7 for about 6-7 years now. While sitting
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Monday, August 10, 2009 11:43 AM

Renewal….

Hiya Folks…. As you have likely noticed, my online activities have been pretty sparse for quite some time. There are a number of reasons for this. Some are personal while some are business related. Since this is my work blog I will limit my discussions
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:11 AM

Zune HD – It’s real….

Engadget has a great article on info they picked up on the rumored Zune HD device. We (Microsoft) have also posted an official Zune HD information page .   Briefly - 3.3” OLED Multi-touch screen (take that iPhone!) Integrated HD Radio receiver (take
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:50 PM

Guitar Hero with Annie “Ecstacy” Leung at TechEd….

Woo HoO! I am at TechEd in Los Angeles talking face-to-face with IT Pros this week. I am working a couple of areas this week – the Thrive booth where we are talking about resources to help IT Pros with Virtualization, Cost Savings, Certification and lot
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:29 AM

It’s going to be a good day!

Why?   For one, I get to head downtown and hop on a ferry to go over to Poulsbo, WA for a User Group meeting this evening. I wish I had time to make the drive around the sound because I have not driven over into the peninsula area of WA yet
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:50 AM

Good Morning!

Subtitled – A room with a view…. I have been waiting to do this post ALL YEAR! This morning I woke up and started my normal routine – make myself some coffee, start making breakfast (toast, 1 fried egg, cottage cheese), turn on my Sirius satellite radio
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:01 AM

My first Netbook purchase…. Acer Aspire One….

About two weeks ago I made an impulse buy of a netbook PC. Consider it my contribution to stimulating the economy. I was at Fry’s pricing some hardware and getting ideas for a new TV for a Media room I am working on when I saw all the tiny netbooks and
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Monday, March 23, 2009 6:16 AM

Back from Vacation and travel....

Whew!   What a week it has been!  Spent time at the Windows/Exchange conferences last week and then another 4 days on vacation with my kids. Had a blast doing both and have a few stories to share once I get caught up with all of my admin
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:53 PM

Stop stealing my blog posts.....

There has been some discussion recently on some DL's here at Microsoft about sites that re-post blog posts without permission. I will call it what it is which is the theft of copyrighted materials for the purpose of monetary gain. I don't like saying
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:34 AM

Slides and additional info from Technet Presentation....

if you would like to grab the slides from the Technet presentation, you can get that at the Technet Event registration site . You are obviously here at my blog so now you also have my contact information. feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
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Monday, October 27, 2008 11:30 PM

The PDC Buzz....and stuff...

There are so many posts out there repeating everything already that I am going to skip linking a bunch of stuff from PDC and link to just the one thing that has me jazzed. I have recently taken an interest in working with Visual Studio and doing some
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:37 AM

Texas State Fair Day!

<Imitating a big booming voice> Hoooooowdy Folks! Welcome to the Texas State Fair! That would be the voice of Big Tex - the iconic simple of the Texas State fair. You can hear Big Tex at BigTex.com , the official site for the State Fair of Texas.
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Friday, October 10, 2008 9:05 PM

No Email is like a vacation.....sort of....

My corporate mailbox has been homed to a "dogfood" server for many, many months now. Even though it is technically on a test server, I have had very few issues to complain about. This morning I received some IM's from co-workers that they and
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Friday, October 10, 2008 11:12 AM

I am not a Wii evangelist....but....

...you still have to check this out . I could care less about the game they are showing, it is the marketing behind it.   Cheers!
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