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Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays to everyone! Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Monday, December 25, 2006 1:53 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments

New Look for the Site

After a couple hours of customization, I activated a new theme for the BrianDesmond.com site. The old look was the same theme I had when I started a blog on weblogs.asp.net in 2003. I felt like it was kind of depressing to look at the old colors - there Read More...
Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 4:32 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Posting from Windows Live Writer

One of my MCS friends, Jeff Rosen has been hinting that there was some new toy coming down the pipe. He emailed me tonight with it, so I'm trying it out. The tool has a preset for Community Server, but it still didn't work out of the box. One of the behaviors Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 7:14 PM by Brian Desmond | 10 Comments
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Broken Links

If you find any broken links here, send me an email or leave a comment. I think I caught them all, but the manner in which the software this site runs on makes URLs is rather complex and I don't really understand the config files, so it's pretty entirely Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:23 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Site Fixed

I had some issues with the server this site is hosted on the last week of May/first week of June. Six weeks later I've finally gotten everything all fixed. I took the downtime as an oppurtunity to upgrade the software that runs this site and think Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:13 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Comments Disabled

I've temporarily disabled comments until I can get a verification system in to deal with the blog spam Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:00 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Site Move/Upgrade

I decided to get a box, actually a virtual server over at www.bitshop.com . I'm in the process of getting that all squared away and working, and then I'm going to swing this site over, and hopefully in the process upgrade the blog software and get rid Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:09 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

DOS Apps

One of the hardware manufacturers who I work with at Payton actively develops their software and hardware to run with MS-DOS 6.22. The advantage of this is that while they haven't really documented how it all works, I can do two things: --> Put standard Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:25 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Plaxo

If you haven't tried it already, check out Plaxo . Basically what Plaxo does is keep your contact information in sync with all the other Plaxo users in your address book (and vice-versa). It's an Outlook plug-in, which peridically downloads updates from Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 17, 2004 8:04 PM by Brian Desmond | 2 Comments

BigBertha

So, who's got a server on their LAN named “BigBertha”? I saw a couple of referrals from BigBertha poking through the statistics this evening. Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:04 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Amazon.com has a time machine?

The Star Wars 28” x 40” poster on Amazon.com ( link ) was reported first made available on Amazon in May of 2005 (look near the bottom of the listing “Date first available at Amazon”. Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:37 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Three Degrees - nope

Scoble is blogging about MS' teen targeted IM client. Unfortunately, it didn't catch on with the target market here (me). I used this thing back in the beta day, and then tried it again several weeks ago: I spent a long time mucking around in the firewall Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 11, 2003 12:36 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Cubs Win!

Cubs are off to the Playoffs! Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 27, 2003 6:41 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Entire Office 2003 on MSDN

In case you're not aware, the entire Office 2003 suite, complete with all the apps is on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2003 5:33 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Confused Gamecube

I've been playing FIFA 2003 on my Gamecube a bunch lately. For whatever reason, Ms. Cleo paid a visit to the announcer's booth this evening - the announcers were calling bookings and other foul information before the referee's whistle was blown. Share Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:31 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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