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Connected World

As a consultant you find yourself all over the place. Today I am headed to downtown Chicago via the good ole train. It's roughly a 1:30 minute ride one way. I normally travel with at least the following: Large cup of Dunkin Donuts ( you know America runs Read More...
Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 7:54 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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.NET House?

Total geek stuff!!! controlthink home control has released an a .NET SDK to control all of your house automation needs. Yes, my house is now going to get .NETized. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:06 PM by csell | 1 Comments
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I'm back, blogging again that is.

Wow, so its really been a long time since I posted any real content. This past year has just been a whirl wind of activities for both my wife and I. We had our first kid, built a new house, yaddaa yaddaa yaaddaa. Before you know it a whole 6 months slipped Read More...
Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 2:09 PM by csell | 0 Comments
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Are you really in control?

Last night I'm sitting on the couch coding away when suddenly mouse and keyboard were taken over and controlled by someone else. In a total panic I try and close down everything of which has a connection to the Internet. Things stop! At this point I am Read More...
Posted Monday, June 19, 2006 11:05 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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Multiplicity ROCKS!

Like any good geek I have a ton of different machines and always seem to work work off a few monitors at once. Since I have a few monitors I really didn't need a KVM but I needed a way to get rid of the stacks of keyboards and mice, Multiplicity !!!! Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:34 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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Announcing, Ethan Clark Sell

Warning, Baby SPAM! Last night we introduced a new potential Microsoft interview candidate :) < ECS > < Name > Ethan Clark Sell </ Name > < Date > March 9th 2006 </ Date > < TimeOfDelivery > 9.35 PM </ TimeOfDelivery Read More...
Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 9:16 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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Codename Origami

You may have heard some buzz around something called Origami which is a new PC form factor. You can find out the official details here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/mar06/03-09Mobile.mspx Funny part, I have just enough room in my backpack Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:45 AM by csell | 3 Comments
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Free Thumb Drive?

Serious? I can't joke at a time like this. Click here , then click on valuable information. I don't think it gets any easier than that. Thanks to Blake Handler for the awesome find . Read More...
Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 2:00 PM by csell | 1 Comments
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Energy Blue Theme

Want a better looking desktop theme? Microsoft a while back released a theme called Energy Blue or Royal. I was first introduced to it via the Experience Pack for Tablet PC. Well it turns out that theme doesn't just work on a tablet pc but XP as well, Read More...
Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 12:39 PM by csell | 3 Comments
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Building or Buying a New House?

Way off the beaten path... A number of months ago my wife and I finally decided to build a new house. If you have ever gone through the process of building or buying a new home, you know there is an unlimited amount of factors which ultimately affect Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:55 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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Reaching out, Toshiba Tecra M4 Mouse Lag

I received my Toshiba Tecra M4 around 7 months ago. Like any, there are pro's and con's; overall not a bad machine. One thing that just drives me crazy it's the random mouse lag. Does anyone know a fix for this? If so, please comment! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:16 PM by csell | 2 Comments
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http://blogs.msdn.com/csell

It was finally time to join the long list of fellow Microsoft bloggers. You will now find a subset of http://csell.net content @ http://blogs.msdn.com/csell . Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:50 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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Virtual PC's Differencing Disks

I love Virtual PC, and I use if for all of my development. I have a ton of VPC's just sucking up MAJOR disk space. I ran across and article from Andrew Connell , HOWTO: Use Virtual PC's Differencing Disks to your Advantage . I wish I would have known Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:35 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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Convert Your Code to HTML

Nice little web utility to convert your code into HTML http://puzzleware.net/codeHTMLer/ Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:13 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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