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Running with a Third Screen on my Desk

Scott's post prompted this post as I've found that unlike Scott, my recent upgrade to a third screen is really helpful. I run with two PCs under my desk. One PC is a simple Dell tower with 4GB of RAM, a dual core chip in it and a couple of SATA spindles Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 2:14 AM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments
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At TechEd Next Week

I'll be down in Orlando at TechEd IT Pro next week. I'm working a booth of some fashion in the Technical Learning Center most of the week I'm told, so feel free to drop in and say hello if you're in town as well. Share this post: email it! | digg it! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:28 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments

Impromptu Hard Drive Refresh - Thanks Acronis

I fix other people's computers and IT problems all day, so the last thing I really feel like doing is fixing my own computer problems at home. My personal workstation decided to blue screen earlier in the evening which was nice. It was one of those blue Read More...
Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 10:43 PM by Brian Desmond | 4 Comments
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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

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

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

Weekend Fun

I had some fun out in Denver this past weekend. Usually I don't do much in the way of “network” stuff. I generally ride on the network - AD and Exchange being what I do for the most part, I don't have to worry about the routers and switches Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:19 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Back!

My server amchine that I ran this site off of from the house lost its motherboard a few weeks ago. I've been so swamped I still haven't fixed it. To make things easier, I've moved the site off to a shared host instead. Hopefully will have some time to Read More...
Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 5:40 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

I can fix anything now!

So I guess I'm certified to fix anything now. I got my MCSA, MCSE, MCSA: Messsaing, and MCSE: Messaging certs the other day. Because of hte order I took the tests, the last test was a core test for all four certs. So, according to my official transcript, Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:30 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Getting Back in the Swing of Things

I need to get back in the swing of things with this site. I haven't had any sort of meaninful content refresh in perhaps three or four months. So, I've got some ideas about stuff to write - I'm going to try and start putting stuff up here every few days Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 8:48 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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I Made the Seattle PI

Well, I got to goto the media luncheon at this year's MVP Summit (which was an absolute blast!), and, well, here it is: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/002559.html . Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 08, 2004 1:06 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Pick 4 MS Press Titles

I've been tasked with picking out four books from MS Press. What do you all recommend? I'm mainly looking at High - Mid Level .Net, High Level Win Server stuff, General/Adv SQL Server, & General/Adv Exchange Server. Thanks! Share this post: email Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 25, 2003 11:12 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

New Content Source

Well, I've got a new source of content: Interesting problems people Google for, click through to my blog, and don't find anything. It seems I have a couple of long posts with lots of tech keywords (my rant on ms blaster, and my introductory post). It Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:20 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Hello Again

So, I've copied all my Http://weblogs.asp.net/bdesmond posts over to this link, as there weren't all that many. I found very quickly that I like this whole blogging concept. Problem is, I've got a lot more things to “blog” about than .Net. My blog over Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 31, 2003 11:50 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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