The age-old question of 'how do I avoid putting funky Office HTML into my blog postings' came up on an internal email list today, and one of the answers was a pointer to http://stevemiller.net/PureText/ , which I had never heard of... but it looks cool...

Well, yesterday I kicked off another round of MSDN events in lovely Norfolk, Virginia. This is normally the territory of my colleague Geoff Snowman, however he's been forced to take an extended leave of disability for medical reasons. I enjoyed the audience...

The .Text software on blogs.msdn.com has been updated to fight blog comment spam — David Weller has posted an excellent description of the new features . However, as commenters to his blog have pointed out, some of the features could be seen as overkill...

The SMS FAQs were just updated - these FAQs should be your first port of call for technical questions about Systems Management Server. Also, next week's webcasts in the SMS 2003 Summer Series both take place on Thursday 19th August, although thankfully...

Comments on my blog are now moderated, so don't be surprised if you submit one and it doesn't appear immediately. I'll attempt to approve them as snappily as possible.

This is way cool… [via Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium ]

And maybe the Forums code too... Nothing against www.asp.net, but I'm just thinking it might be interesting to host my own blog... moving seems disruptive though, leaving a large number of my posts here, new ones there.... what do you folks think? Have...

Last night we were watching Rove , which we all love. He had a special "musical" guest, which he rated greater than THE William Hung . This caught my attention!! Patiently we waited, and soon we were rewarded with the musical stylings of Wing - a woman...

A few months ago, Zoë and I attended the local EMA meeting to hear a presentation by Lou Adler of the Adler Group . In fact, Zoë blogged about her thoughts on Lou’s content . One thing Lou said during his speech really hit home for me, and lately, I’ve...

One of the most confusing concepts in SMS 2003 is the use and application of a Proxy MP (PMP). I’ll try to explain firstly what the PMP does and doesn’t do, and secondly address when you could consider implementing a PMP. Firstly the key benefit of deploying...

This is not news: .Net framework 2.0 will have 64 bit edition. As expected, Microsoft only support 64 bit chips from Intel And AMD. Namely, IA64 Architecture and AMD64 Architecture. You can download .Net framework 2.0 beta1 for IA64 and x64 now from microsoft...

Geoff's links: http://blogs.msdn.com/gsnowman/articles/93823.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/gsnowman/articles/93226.aspx