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Archive for June, 2009

Wassup Returns

Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in WordPress | No Comments »

Back in March, when I was just switching to my, then, new IIS server, I had some issues with a plugin called Wassup.  More specifically, the plugin was causing some major performance issues and caused my blog to take several ...

Refreshing App-V Publishing Server

Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in App-V, Microsoft | No Comments »

We're in the middle of checking out App-V from Microsoft's MDOP.  At the moment, the deployment is limited to IT (and a fraction of IT at that).  We've already figured out a lot of cool things about it, but we've ...

WordPress Upgrade

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 Posted in WordPress | No Comments »

As anyone remotely familiar with WordPress 2.7 will know, 2.7 introduced a very cool feature: the automatic upgrade.  This is cool for a few reasons.  First and foremost, it prevents the blog owner from having to manually copy the new ...

DVD Region

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in Beta, Humor, Windows 7 | No Comments »

In my playings-around with Windows 7, I've really loved the fact that it plays DVDs and AVIs nativly with no extra codecs or applications.  I have to tell you, it's really nice to be able to just pop a DVD ...

Windows 7 Windows Management

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, Windows 7, Work | 1 Comment »

Around the office, most of us are used to using UltraMon to manage our windows on the beautiful 23" monitors we have.  Unfortunately, for the time being, UltraMon doesn't provide support for 7, so some of us are left manually ...