Does anyone out there have any experience or knowledge regarding the use of BioDiesel in a regular diesel engine? I am thinking of getting a diesel VW Bug (the TDI), but I want to run BioDiesel in it. I understand there is a Chevron in Bellevue that sells...

I saw snow in the hills yesterday, so for all you that are waiting for ski season, here's my favorite quick links. I am getting a little antsy waiting for the snow to get here, and for our puppy to get big enough to go play in the snow with me. 10 Essentials...

See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx The previous version is great and I have been waiting for the new release ever since I saw an early copy a few weeks ago. I am downloading it now (was too excited...

We were presenting to, and discussing with, a customer at the MTC today about the benefits and challenges of identity management. This organization has a pretty complex environment (many environments really) and they know they need an IdentityManagement...

The video of the Flight Simulator team is now on Channel 9 . It is 41 minutes and 20 seconds long, so it's got quite a bit of stuff in it, but it's more interesting than that rerun of Law & Order my wife is watching for the 5th time. :-) Here are...

I am looking for a quick way to toggle my 2nd monitor, preferably using WMI, but anything will do. I want to simply run the app/script and have it enable or disable my 2nd monitor. This is because I often walk into my office, plug my Tablet PC into my...

Are you writing your own command-line applications? Then you may be interested in this: From GotDotNet : “Parsing command line arguments to a console application is a common problem. This library handles the common task of reading arguments from...

A couple of friends, Rob & Becky Dickson, live in Hong Kong and Rob loads up his watch with credits so that when he rides the subway, he simply wands his watch near some sort of reader at the turnstile. I always though that was pretty cool as I would...

Joe Stagner and Jacob Cynamon just blogged about how cool it is to be an evangelist for Microsoft's products and technologies. See the official job details . If you're interested, see Heather's blog for some resume and other tips about getting hired....

For all you command-line freaks out there, I hope you know about Microsoft's scripting technologies. Hopefully you are also aware that web services is the hot new thing and is certainly a great way to architect solutions these days. So, combining those...

My wife and I just setup our new-world of communications: We just got our Vonage phone , which is Voice Over IP, connected to our cable modem and our Microsoft 802.11g WiFi router. We now no longer have a regular phone line. The connection is: Coax cable...

When I was at Western Washington University, I got to see one of their solar cars. They usually did pretty good in a variety of solar car races. This electric car from Ohio State University isn't solar powered, but since all solar cars are electric cars...

I am now convinced that fast food is a really, really, bad thing. Sure, it tastes good, but two recent events have made me a rather concerned: Dan, my brother-in-law, told Lorie and me quite a bit about the book Fast Food Nation - we were afraid to read...

I just ran across the EELink site and had to share it with you. They have a huge list of educational software that is focused on environmental issues. <My Personal Soap Box> I'm not trying to endorse any of these products, but if you have kids,...

Some feedback from my last post asked for links to something other than just the .exe files. So, here you go: VB: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic/default.aspx C#: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/default.aspx C++: http://lab...

Thanks to Aaron Stebner for pointing out the specific links to the latest builds of these amazing products: Visual Basic: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/a/21a4b949-758c-4ff2-8381-1acb2a943bf9/vbsetup.exe Visual C++: http://download.microsoft...

Link to Heather's blog in your online resume. See http://blogs.msdn.com/HeatherLeigh/archive/2004/10/19/244845.aspx for info.

I recently cruised through the microsoft.com site looking for demos of real world solutions that include some custom code and configuration. Here is what I found: IBuySpy Demos: IBuySpy Portal SQL CE: IBuySpy Delivery Application Design Speech Enabled...

This is awesome! I would love to see some sort of a kit created to let people extend their Pocket PC to be a robot’s brain. This comes via http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2004/10/18/243996.aspx Joseph Wu has been busy working on his Pocket...

Matt Williams ' quest for a tool to extend the Windows Clipboard when working at the Command-Line seems to be over. To quote Matt: CLCL seems to be exactly what I was looking for. I tried Shell Toys XP and while it has a clipboard management tool, it...

I got some feedback from my PowerPoint TTS blog that a couple of people were having problems getting it to work. In an attempt to keep my readers happy, I wanted to make sure my code and insructions were correct. I verified my instructions, using Office...

This morning (Friday), I didn't get much sleep for a few reasons that might be sort of entertaining to hear about: At 3:30am, the puppy woke us up because she needed to go out At 6:00am, the bunny woke us up with some fast hipidy hop action around the...

I finally got around to building my first app with Visual Studio 2005. And no, I am not the only Microsoftee who doesn't write code for a living. Thankfully Betsy Aoki just posted a good writeup about her first VB.NET programming class . I built what...

Yesterday I was helping a friend find a good way to extend the Windows clipboard , especially at the command line. I am happy to say that 5 people quickly responded with 4 different suggestions. These all look like great utilities too! However, nobody...

In a recent post, I mentioned a solar powered backpack and I just got some feedback that those are now shipping , along with messenger bags and other stuff with solar panels in them. Today I ran across Solar SCOTTeVEST that has solar panels built into...