Illuminatea

Stupid website, but it gives me a chance to taunt my co-worker Kevin. This morning I got a puzzled e-mail from him, asking me why this picture of me in Sydney from February (yes, that's Sydney, Australia; we were there for training for work) was the most-viewed picture in his online galleries (warning, probably not a worksafe gallery). I have no ...

The speaker just said, and I quote, ''regular expressions, which are fairly straightforward.'' That's, um, well, interesting. And wrong.

Big conference, lots of geeks. With two laptops and a Windows Mobile cellphone, I'm not at all unusual here. The conference organizers have wisely established free Wi-Fi for us all. Well, guys, that's a great start, but how about you give us some bandwidth? I've had faster connections over my old 300 baud modem.  

Oy vey. We've been Slashdotted. Let's see if our T-1 and web server can hold up. 

Today, my company released a report comparing several anti-phishing technologies, including a beta version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. I note this because I was one of the researchers and authors of the report. Needless to say, we're already catching a lot of flack in the press because we scored IE7 the highest of the various ...

The current project I'm on at work? I've decided it needs a new name. I'm henceforth calling it Operation Zeno's Paradox. You know you're in trouble when you've finally found a solution to a roadblock that is keeping you from finishing a major portion of your project, serendipity has dropped a convenient piece of hardware in your lap with ...

Chapter 3 of my DCAR ebook is now online, details on my work blog. If you need to read about these things, enjoy.

If you're wondering what I'm going to be up to this spring, wonder no more! Get thee hence to the Looking forward to Exchange Connections Spring 2006 post on my work blog and find out!

Both kids woke up with an excess of phlegm, so we kept them home from school today. Sounds like a good day for them to work on updating their web sites and blogs, especially since I just handed out the URLs to the members of my family. In other news, Microsoft has produced printed versions of one of the solutions I worked on in 2004, the Windows ...

DCAR (Discovery, Compliance, Archival, and Retention) is a big topic these days. I've done some work with 3Sharp in this space, and I have been fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to write an ebook for Windows IT Pro on the topic. The first chapter is now available for free download with registration; the remaining chapters will be ...

I just shipped the first draft of Chapter 7 “Routing, Transport, and SMTP“ of The Exchange Cookbook to my editor and co-authors. I wrote this chapter entirely by myself. It started off with 47 recipes (including the introduction); final size was 27 recipes. Many of the missing 20 were duplicates of either recipes in other chapters, belonged better ...

So why did I decide I needed my own blog? How come LiveJournal wasn't enough? Well, I'm not terribly keen on LiveJournal's interface, to tell the truth. I like having categories, since I write about a lot of different things. I like that you, the reader, have the choice to only read certain posts that interest you instead of the boring ones ...