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Last week I started a new series of some of my favorite new features in Office 12. If you’re curious what criteria I’m using to select them, read Part 1. Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2).

Windows update chicken dance as posted by Brad (specifically for error 0×80244019 but may work for others): This fixed the problem: Cleared the cookiesCleared the Temporary Internet Files as well as offline contentRestored the defaults in the Security tab of Tools/Internet Options, for each zone.Restored the defaults in the Advanced tab of Tool/Internet Options.Under the Advanced  Read more »

Follow along, you get a prize… Official Shrub.com Blog » Blog Archive » Because sexual harassment is hilarious – “To add fuel to the fire, it is not creepy old men taking these pictures (which would be bad enough), but the other girls themselves doing it. Showing women participating in their own objectification (ala. Levy’s  Read more »

I was looking into backup strategies overnight. Man, Windows 2003 Server can do some really, really trippy stuff with storage that just kicks ass! Windows Server 2003 Distributed File System (DFS) and File Replication Services (FRS) Volume Shadow Copy Service Technical Reference Data Recovery DFS Technical Reference Remote File Systems

Ok, that was interesting. I maintain several Plesk servers for clients, some Windows and some Linux. Under the current version (7.5.4 for Windows) there is a need to support the Asp.NET 2.0 framework and the tools that come with it. After much research and holding of breath, I took the leap and did an upgrade.  Read more »

So much cool stuff is coming out of Microsoft so fast that it kind of feels like they are single handedly powering another small Internet revolution. May people, especially those blinded by anti-MS sentiment, really don’t have a feeling for how fundamentally Microsoft has shifted it’s own direction int he past… and how this has  Read more »

Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta

Some cool blog / design related links… The sights our eyes behold, Will open up our merging hearts, And feed our empty souls. » Variables in your CSS via PHP Lorelle on WordPress » Buttons, Bows and Badges for Your Blog Scriptaculous Lists with PHP si·mil·i·tude – a web log – a Flash based WP  Read more »

Looks like it’s worth doing… Free XMLSpy Home Edition License, then download the tool.