Category: Miscellaneous

It always irks me when I look back and realize that I didn't take many pictures… Monday dawned way too early. I made it down for breakfast, and then off on the 20 minute bus ride to the Microsoft Conference

Okay, finally I'm going to put up some pictures here. I'll break them up a bit so that the load time isn't too long. First off, merely for my interest, here's the view from the hotel room: Now, of more

Every year when we come to the Summit, we always request a fridge for the room, so Dee can buy some fresh fruit from Pike Place Market. Normally we get a standard mini-fridge, but this year they were all out

Dee and I are currently in Seattle, as I'm attending the MVP summit for the 3rd year in a row. We're now happily checked in to the Westin, and waiting for registration to start tomorrow. We came down on the

I tried to set up my laptop today to use the speech recognition native in Microsoft Windows.  I found it pretty hard to actually get it to recognize my voice the first time around.  It doesn’t actually feel quite as

This morning I got a nice email from Microsoft to let me know that I was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for my third year.  I'm pretty flattered to be awarded again, and already planning the trip to the MVP

I still love my phone, but there are a couple of things I'd like to see... We're activating the feature which requires our users to put in a password to unlock the phone.  In addition, we'll be activating automatic wipe

As of this afternoon, we've finally got our new Windows Mobile Smartphones hooked up to our Exchange server.  🙂 This is really cool, as I no longer have to plug it in to sync up the device with my Outlook

In our Microsoft migration a couple of months ago, we moved from Novell's Groupwise for email to Microsoft Exchange 2003, using Outlook 2007 as a client.  I knew things would be different, but some things just make me shake my