November 1, 2007 — I’m taking the Microsoft course for upgrading skills from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 this week.  It’s a three day course with about five days worth of content jammed into it. So far it has been very good.  Lots of major changes in Exchange 2007, particularly around the platform and message routing.  Nonetheless, some very…

October 16, 2007 — I noticed several days ago when I had downloaded a file that it didn’t show up on my desktop where I had saved it.  I thought I maybe inadvertently saved it somewhere else, so I proceeded to download again, selected the Desktop as the save to location, and clicked Save. “Do you want to overwrite…

October 15, 2007 — I’ve changed my mind and decided that a Date Tracker will be the Vista Sidebar Gadget that will be the subject of my series on gadget development. Yes, again the concept is simple. The goal is show people how simple gadget development can be and encourage others to make their own creations and submit them…

October 15, 2007 — They are doing some cool stuff over at local.live.com.  These changes seem to have went live in the last day or so.  They have simplified the interface and added some new functionality. How about the ability to have a traffic-based route?  Like take me the way the traffic isn’t?  It gives you the route with…

October 14, 2007 — One of the cool new features of Windows Vista, is the Windows Sidebar. The Sidebar is an application that runs as part of the Windows shell on the right portion of the screen. This Sidebar contains different mini web applications known as gadgets. These web applications contain HTML and scripting language either in the form…