Russ Nemhauser

I'm wondering if anyone else out there is having the same problem I am.

Recently I began shopping for a new cell phone for my wife and I found a very disconcerting fact. The AudioVox and Motorola SmartPhones aren't available any longer. This puzzles me greatly.

I bought this game yesterday with so much excitement I couldn't wait to get home to play it. I popped it in my Xbox and watched the opening movie which (was pretty cool). Then it came time to saddle up for the first level.

In February I blogged about a remote controlled airplane that I'd purchased after about twenty years of wanting one. Today I was finally able to enjoy an incredible five straight minutes of non-stop flight time and I have to say that it was well worth the wait.

With the help of the Virtual PC Master Brian Randell and my good pal Ken Getz I have learned about the beauty of what are called "Differencing Drives". Differencing Drives allow you to create a VPC with an operating system (in my case Windows Server 2003, activated, with the Virtual Machine Additions) and then use that as a starting point to branch out and install various other things without having to touch the core operating system installation.

So almost two weeks ago I had a power outage and my Active Directory got corrupted. I only have one server in my house that serves as my domain controller, Exchange server, and SQL server. That basically meant that I was a tad bit on the "extremely screwed" side. There are lessons to be learned, however. I shall attempt to explain the biggest one that I personally took home from this experience.

Hey everybody,

I arrived in Toronto today to speak at VSLive!. I'll be giving my "Creating Dynamic Themes & Skins in ASP.NET 1.1" talk tomorrow and my "Implementing Next-Level Search Capability in ASP.NET" talk on Friday. Those who attend (or who would like to learn more about these topics) can discuss them in my forums.