Remember back in June I mentioned Mark Russinovich had talked about his experience starting at Microsoft? I still keep up with his blog (and any tester should keep an eye on it as well) so this notice I received stood out to me. Mark is giving an online...

One of my hobbies which I never have time for is playing around with my old TRS-80 Color Computer . For those that remember this old machines, the majority of software was distributed in magazines and books, and you had to type the code in yourself to...

Anirudh Saraf is winding up his internship this week. He's been pretty busy while here - diving into the subtleties of Hyper-V , learning how to get machines working on our network domain, moving into Windows Server 2008, learning our automation system...

Rainald Taesler, one of OneNote's MVPs, had contacted me a while back asking to have the Table of Contents powertoy tweaked to show a button on the toolbar rather than a text string. The text strings tend to take up too much horizontal space on the toolbar...

I got a request a few days ago to see about posting the code for the image rotator powertoy. Gary agreed to go ahead and release his code and you can get it here now. The link is at the bottom of this entry. Another request that comes up every so often...

…is the number of people who insist on decorating it while you are gone.  I came into my office.  Ceiling Cat was making sure to look over me and keep me safe: and wall cat was there too: I called phone cat to make sure he was OK: robot cat...

So my "two week" navy training lasted just shy of four weeks this year. I was very busy, but can't remember anything I did… One challenge I had was trying to get an internet connection working. My phone, a T-Mobile Wing, has the old $6/month data...