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Odd Excel error. Not sure what caused it.
I just launched Excel and picked a document from the MRU and I got “Sorry, we can’t perform this...
Date: 03/22/2015
Blast from the past—and still true today.
Someone sent me this link in response to a customer request, and I had to laugh. The situation...
Date: 03/06/2015
Goodbye, Outlook Tasks!
When I first met Peter Bregman, he was on his book tour speaking at Microsoft Research. In 2012. He...
Date: 07/23/2014
Thanks, Emily! My $0.02 US (unadjusted) on security.
A friend of mine just sent me a link and asked my opinion. Always a dangerous thing to do… Here you...
Date: 05/27/2014
Federal budget math shows up in OneDrive?
I’m not sure what to make of this, but it was amusing (to me): I was curious about why my PC...
Date: 04/27/2014
Interop between SharePoint Online and Family Safety
On the off chance that I’ll forget or someone else might wonder how to get these two great services...
Date: 04/26/2014
Free is a good price.
Everybody loves free stuff, right? Get your free ebooks!...
Date: 04/22/2014
I’ve been in meetings like this. Gack.
Just several this week. And it’s only Monday. What Meetings Feel Like For Engineers Yes. In the...
Date: 04/21/2014
Is that what THAT button was for?
Some people (who are not me) have a way with words that fit into 140 characters. Witness Aaron Levie...
Date: 04/17/2014
One last laugh for John Pinette
One of my favorite comedians passed yesterday. John Pinette was one the few contemporary comedians...
Date: 04/07/2014
Yes, I hate April Fools’ Day.
I don’t hate April Fools’ Day on principle. (Yes, I do.) I just hate it because you can never tell...
Date: 04/01/2014
The death of agile?
Mike’s got some great points about how agile goes wrong. I’ve seen them all. The skills and talents...
Date: 03/14/2014
I like to read ‘expert’ opinions for their comedic value.
Apparently, the Ed Bott does, too. Summary: In Silicon Valley (and in media satellites that take the...
Date: 03/05/2014
My life in comics.
In the ongoing saga of my life starring in Scott Adam’s imagination… I’ve had this annual review...
Date: 03/04/2014
Learning under fire. Is there any other way? =P
I’m one of those folks who prefers to test the depth of a river with both feet, and this learning...
Date: 02/21/2014
Dinosaur engineering org structure is #dead. #yammer
This. Is. True. “People make the incorrect assumption that software engineering is writing code to a...
Date: 02/18/2014
Dave Campbell for CEO
I've been dark for a bit, traveling to Budapest and Seattle, but... I've been thinking a lot about...
Date: 01/29/2014
Metadata is everything
I’ve been teaching one of my customers the fundamentals of Power BI this past week, so maybe I’m...
Date: 11/25/2013
Alas, IE9, we knew ye well…
As we get to EOL for Windows XP, the transition to modern browsers should be well underway… Google...
Date: 11/07/2013
The Perils of Predictive Analytics
There was a story last year about how Target predicted that a teenage girl was pregnant, based on...
Date: 11/05/2013
Adventures in relocation…
You know how the most innocuous thing can become a technological mountain… under time pressure? The...
Date: 10/31/2013
The Real Cost of Mobile Development
I’m putting together (for my own edification) a list of tooling that folks developing for phones and...
Date: 10/16/2013
Who is the next dinosaur?
Maybe it’s midlife. Maybe it’s too much free time. Maybe it’s just a side effect for designing the...
Date: 10/02/2013
Getting Pocket to work with IE11 and Windows 8.1 (formerly colored Blue)
If you’re like I am, there are FAR more things on the webnetz that you want to read than you could...
Date: 10/01/2013
Consider your [data] sources...
I’m always amused by reasonable seeming statements (including my own) that are then followed by...
Date: 02/15/2012
The app that would get me to buy an iPhone...
I’m afraid to go look in the App Store, because it might be a real iPhone app and I might be kicked...
Date: 08/28/2009
Amen, brother. Preach it, SQL-type dude!
My pal, Steve, over @ SQL Server Central has been riffing on the DBA-train-thyself mantra again....
Date: 08/17/2009
Scary. But probably true.
Emphasis in the quote below is Jeff’s; I didn’t fiddle with the bold or italics. I just made it...
Date: 08/14/2009
Degenerate dimensions in VSTS DB edition GDR R2 (a.k.a. TSD03136)
This is a common pattern in many BI projects that I’ve been involved with in the past four or five...
Date: 08/07/2009
erR? TSD03006. Doh!
I’m often skeptical when I read things like this that make absolute statements: To resolve this...
Date: 08/06/2009
South Park mobile business model?
Microsoft Details How to Port iPhone Apps to Windows Mobile 1. Write an iPhone app. 2. ... 3....
Date: 08/04/2009
Tough decision. Should I share this with my son?
This summer, my oldest son (age 9) has been plowing through every book in the library on...
Date: 08/03/2009
This is what happens to Twits™ with weak passwords...
Whoops. Or perhaps Twitter has a feed injection bug that’s been exploited? Maybe Anna Kournikova’s...
Date: 07/27/2009
We need to do $@#%ing research to learn this?
Speaking on behalf of all men with a workshop or a garage (which reminds me, I have a top 10 list...
Date: 07/13/2009
NTS: Always install the TFS Power Tools
Or you’ll wind up with: TF10139: The following check-in policies have not been satisfied. Internal...
Date: 07/09/2009
This explains so many things... Scott Adams explains compensation modeling?
This metaphor can probably be extended to ‘splain corporate and governmental policies of all kinds!...
Date: 07/09/2009
In other words, if I get promoted that means what...?
The way I read these alleged research results, a lottery is just as effective at picking people for...
Date: 07/08/2009
Note to Self: Label shipping containers more innocuously...
It almost reads like something from “When I am an Evil Overlord...” The arrested men had setup an...
Date: 07/06/2009
If you need me, I’ll be in teh garage...
Tim and I don’t see eye2eye on some things, but quite often he nails the the whole “married geek”...
Date: 07/03/2009
Good cryptography is built to last.
Dr. Smithline apparently lost some sleep over this cipher, but he cracked it. The overall...
Date: 07/02/2009
Two links I want to save for l8r: WM6.5 DTK and Windows API Code Pack for .NET 3.5
From the MSDN Flash dated 20090623: Download the Free Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET...
Date: 06/25/2009
I would’ve blogged this yesterday, but...
I got distracted. Heh. The Brain: Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State I’m...
Date: 06/25/2009
Bing: there it is! My PPS setup problem(s) solved.
Obligatory bing plug. The name is growing on me... Link #1 in the search results was Nick Barclay’s...
Date: 06/03/2009