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Mark your calendars in the southwest that you are busy September 15th.  Of course, all are invited to the next Desert Code Camp in Phoenix, AZ.

I am taking a class this week at [itt] on SharePoint 2007.  My instructor is Miguel Wood from TekFocus.  I must confess, it sure is fun to be "student" for a change.

I have recently decided to redo tags on my blog.  This effort required me to go back in the archives and view some of my posts of old.  As I viewed one post after another, I realized I have used the blog for various reasons.  Here is a list of how I have "purposed" my blog:

I am breaking one of my blog rules (which I will blog about later).  I want to pose a question to the technical community:  Does disk defragmenting in Vista have any better UI than below:

Each week my wife and I meet to discuss our calendars and to-do lists.  She has commented lately that my newest form of time management has been the most successful to date.  What is my latest technological innovation?  I use a paper-based system.

Scott Hanselman has been assimilated!  He joins the azure cult under the direction of the great Scott Guthrie.

I ran into some issues earlier today attempting to record audio with my MobilePre USB from M-Audio.  After calling sound & audio guru Simon Allardice, I got the needed advice to get things working again.

I could not install an upgrade from TechSmith for Camtasia Studio until I did so from the command prompt.   I have observed this behavior since I have installed Vista.  Double-clicking on the .msi file in windows explorer will start the process, but end abruptly with this nasty error message "Installation ended prematurely because of an error":