The goal of ThePrintScreenProject is to explore the conncetions between our lives and computers through the use of screenshots. Screenshots can tell interesting stories about people's lives: their interests and priorities, their habits and the technologies...

I am sure I am not alone in feeling this way about Outlook's email address auto-completion feature. While it is a great help when it works well, some of its quirks can be annoying and downright counterproductive. The one that has been bothering me for...

There! The credit where it is due. After playing with the samples posted at Josh Ledgard's blog for customizing my MSDN blog, I decided to pull in the whole enchilada except for replacing the photo at the top. I'll play with it some more, but it looks...

I am trying to watch NASA TV live to see Deep Impact collide with Tempel 1 . My natural inclination was to choose streaming video for Window Media Player first. The first few minutes were good, but I gave up soon after very poor streaming quality. I switched...

I know MSN Search team is playing catch up and has done an amazing job in the last 18 months. I attended one of their recent dev presentations and they were demonstrating how much better their "answer search" is compared to Google. Try searching for the...

Until yesterday, I hadn't heard of Charles Joseph Minard. I ran across his name and his famous graphic in an ad-mail offering a course about "Presenting Data and Information". The graphic really caught my attention and I googled his name (yes, I know...

Ok, I admit it. Spray-on-mud has nothing to do with MSDN or Microsoft or my group DDCPX. But I feel compelled to mention it before introducing myself. I am a big fan of CarTalk on NPR and during yesterday's show they mentioned Spray-on-mud as the next...