2006 November

I am finally stable on Vista RTM on my desktop machine. It took a long time and a lot of effort. I like Vista, I really do. But getting to a stable (or semi-stable) point has been a real chore.
I run a small format machine with two hard drives, one a regular drive and one […]

 Have you ever wanted to have a presentation play on it’s own on one monitor while you work on another? With Vista, you can!
Here’s how you can do it:

Open your presentation and use Set up Show to set it to play in a window on your secondary monitor.
Make sure that the animations and transitions are […]

I traveled to Vegas last week for Connections. I played “Ask the Expert” at the Microsoft booth for IT Pros on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Driving up and back gave me plenty of time to read, so I finished two books - the P.L. Travers bio and the Elmo one. I also completely read the […]

 Just as I hope to use this blog to share information about products I use and love, I also hope to use it to share what I am reading. Some posts on will be on techie books I have picked up, some on stuff I am reading for relaxation.
To start this off, I thought I […]