Today's been a busy day, what with work and getting pinged with the press on the new tablet products coming from Silicon Valley, as noted here with an inside look at the HP Slate (the model that made its debut at CES). None other than HP's CTO Phil McKinney...

Adapted from a past post, Staying ahead and Work/Life Balance , revised for 2010… Lauren Cooney noted on Twitter today … "What is the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Check work email, regardless of day. Bad habit or good? Or just...

As noted on Twitter , even Microsoft employees use the MicrosoftStore , especially when there's a sale on some of the latest PCs around. Needing to replace an older model (tried and true) Sony Vaio that is headed to the repair shop, I ordered a new PC...

As I last month , I decided to finally and dive into a new Kindle – namely the Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device . Though it did not offer the global wireless feature of its little (6") brother, I was happy to get the larger reading surface after...

Earlier this week, I posted a link to the Security Advisory 979352 Posted: Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution . As noted on the MSRC blog, there's an advance notification for an out-of-band release for MS10-002… "Today...

Yesterday, Jerry Bryant announced here on the MSRC blog that Security Advisory 979682 Released . Click on the link for the details: essentially Security Advisory 979682 addresses an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows kernel, affecting...

As noted in Mike Reavey's posts on The Microsoft blog and The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog today , we have just released Security Advisory 979352 . Here's the detail from Mike Reavey's post … Based upon our investigations, we have determined...

Yes, I've been neglecting my blog. Although I have a couple of blog posts in the works (on setting up our Windows 7 home network connected to our Media Center), I have been just too busy with (gasp!) real work. So I obviously need to be better at my organization...

CES is off to a great start with plenty of new product news… and we haven't even had the keynote kickoff! As I noted last month (all of a week or so ago) I decided to get on the ebook reader bandwagon and finally ordered a new Amazon Kindle. I was torn...

As you may already know, CES 2010 begins this week in Las Vegas (officially, CES is January 7-10 ). Yes, it's true that researchers have determined that stress may cause the brain to become disconnected , but you don't have to be disconnected at when...