October 11, 2007 — Just finished up building another plugin for Windows Live Writer.  The “iTunes Currently Playing” plugin allows you to insert customizable text from whatever it is you are listening to at any given time in iTunes. Insert the currently playing song including track, artist, and album information via iTunes. Customizable output formatting allows you to create…

October 11, 2007 — The Windows Live team announced some changes to the SkyDrive beta today. Among the changes are an increase of space for users from 500 MB to 1 GB.  Also, being that you can have a public folder that is read and write for other users, they have incorporated an RSS feed feature that allows you…

October 9, 2007 — This past weekend was the 26th running of the Twin Cities Marathon, “The Most Beautiful Urban Marathon in America”. One of my friends was running and a group of us met him at the finish line to cheer him on.  I can’t imagine the training that is involved in preparing for something like this, but…

October 5, 2007 — I first introduced this issue in a previous post.  It turns out that this problem occurs if a network hardware device, such as a router, does not support TCP Window Scaling. TCP Window Scaling is a new Windows Vista feature.  The TCP window scale option is an option to increase the TCP congestion window size…

October 5, 2007 — I have one Windows Server 2003 box in my environment that connects fine through RDP, but once I start clicking around in the RDP session, the response time is extremely slow even though the processor and memory usage is very low. I’m not sure why one particular server would cause this problem, but I did…