StayAtHomeServer.com!

From Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?: “When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a special...

MS Math Add-In for Word 2007

I mention this because this is just the thing I’ve wanted to be able to check my kid’s math homework: the Microsoft Math Add-In for Word 2007. For...

1 Setup == Innumerable Uninstalls?

OK, what’s the deal with installing 1 product (Visual Studio 2008 beta 2) and having to do 22 separate uninstalls?!? How is this a good thing...

Why aren’t Windows settings stored in %HOMEPATH%?

Normally, this is the kind of question I’d pose and then provide an answer, but this time I just don’t have one. If my Word settings were stored in...

I had to load FireFox on my machine yesterday

In general, IE7 more than meets my needs. It shows me the web pages I want and it works well. However, there is one killer feature that FireFox has...

C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, LINQPad and Pure Genius

I absolutely love what the Albahari brothers (Joe & Ben) have done with C# 3.0 in a Nutshell. Not only is their prose concise in a way that mine is...

Amazon Kindle Real-Life Review

I’ve posted about ebooks before (e.g. I Hate Books). It sounds like the Amazon Kindle has some real potential. All we need is a product with enough...

Visual Studio 2008 Has Been Released!

From the Visual Studio home page: Learn more about Visual Studio 2008 MSDN Subscribers: Get Visual Studio 2008 Download Trial Editions of Visual...