September 2008 Entries
There are a few events taking place in October that I would like to promote:
Day of .NET in Ann Arbor
Saturday, October 18, 2008
The fourth Day of .NET in Ann Arbor event will take place on the campus of Washenaw Community College in Ann Arbor (or is it actually Ypsilanti? I can never tell). The original conference was a collaboration between GANG, AADND, and NWNUG. This year, we have officially added GLUG.net and West Michigan to the list of groups who are assisting in the organization and promotion. So, for those of you following along at home, this event is the product...
I use Windows 2008 Server as a workstation. I find that certain things actually work better (like Sleep Mode, for instance, which is weird because servers shouldn't need to sleep, but Vista would often not go to sleep and drain my battery the entire couple of hours that it continued to run in my computer bag, and Windows Server 2008 has never done that.... but I digress).
However, when the new Zune 3.0 software was released today, I found, like many others, that the software explicitly listed three operating systems that were supported, and Server 2008 was unfortunately not one of...
Dear Microsoft,
We've been pals for a long time, right? You put out all of these great technologies, and I help others to use them within their own organization. We have a good thing going, you and me.
But, I have a problem. You see, whenever I press this one special key on my keyboard, mostly by accident due to its proximity to ESC and ~, you give me an excuse to stop working and go get coffee. This isn't very productive. I don't always want an excuse to get coffee.
Can you please add a Cancel button or something? Your modal dialog...