The other day, I was texting a friend and some guy looked at me and said "Oh hey, 2002 called, it wants its T9 back." Haha, slightly cliche but I laughed anyway. Then I went and bought myself a Blackberry.

I totally love it, I won't lie. So I imported my contacts into Outlook from a Sony Ericsson mobile phone …

Seems that Microsoft forgot to add a link to "Save site as Template" for Publishing sites in MOSS 2007, and it appears the problem is not addressed in SP1, either. Makes me wonder if the lack-of-link was intentional.

Nevertheless, in order to save any Publishing Site as a template, you must manually append …

For as many times as I have read about sending e-mails using SQL Server triggers, I've rarely come across actual code samples. After someone asked for a "Triggers for Dummies" example in a Facebook SQL group, I created the following example which uses a trigger to alert a manager that an expensive item has …

I'm kinda late on this but arstechnica reports that "Microsoft has opened the source code to the .NET Framework libraries under a read-only reference license. Developers who want to check out the source code need only upgrade to the newly released Visual Studio 2008 to gain access to it."

This is something …

Today I attacked my 2008 technical to do list and setup a subversion server for backups/source control. It was actually pretty darn easy in SUSE 10.3. After I got it going, I wondered if I could have it automatically authenticate against my HOME domain. So, using SuSE's menu driven interface YaST, I easily added my …

For those of you who dropped out of college and want to finish your undergrad degree, you may want to consider the online university, Western Governors University. I'm sharing this on my blog because I actually shared the URL with many of my tech friends who dropped out. I found an ad for WGU in some tech magazine …

Update June 2 2015: FINALLY, Y'ALL! Looking Forward: Microsoft: Support for Secure Shell (SSH)

I'm currently playing with Windows Server 2008 Core and I'm really at a loss trying to figure out why Microsoft seems to go out of its way not to adopt SSH. SSH seems like such an easy and straightforward answer to remote …

I don't know what on Earth AOL developers do in their AIM 6.x setup but they sure manage to mess things up in Vista. Once AIM is installed, my network detection no longer works and it gives an error that reads: "No network - server execution failed." The problem seems to be some kind of COM error and the fix …

The web interface for VMware Server 2 Beta for Linux is garbage; it's both slow and unattractive. Even VMware Server 1 and ESX Server 2.5 from years ago had a faster/nicer web interface. VMware Server looks a bit like ESX and my experience with ESX taught me that it can be administered with both the web interface and …

I've been out of work for over two months, recovering from surgery to fix a severe repetitive stress injury. It started about two years ago when my workspace was setup poorly. I hyper extended my arm to mouse for about two months and it caused an inflammation that eventually lead to calcification. Somewhere along the …