With the approach of the holiday season I feel that I must warn you about the infamous FFTC (Friends and family toting cameras). The FFTC seem to appear at all family gatherings like moths drawn to a flame, and their work can be as destructive to ones sense of well being and reputation. Continue reading
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Developing a script Taxonomy
As we have been busy at the TechNet Script Center with our migration to a blog, and bringing the TechNet Script Center Gallery on line, I have been giving a lot of thought to organizing the keywords / tags that are used to provide quick links to groups of topics. The problem is the world of scripting is huge. Continue reading
Today is the perfect day for the perfect cup of coffee
Well today it is foggy, gray, and gloomy outside. The temperature is expected to rise above 90 again, and currently the humidity is nearly 90%. Clearly a day like today was made to spend inside, enjoying a good book, an ice cold cola and a bit of air conditioning. Of course for me the good book will be Continue reading
What happens when you get 5000 nerds together?
What happens when you bring 5000 nerds from around the world and place them in a single building? Well if they are Microsoft employees, they begin to talk about computers. This week I am at the TechReady conference in Seattle, having been invited to speak about using Windows PowerShell to remotely administer the Windows 7 desktop, and it has already been an exciting, enlightening, and invigorating time. There are several things that are great Continue reading