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2012 3

  1. Windows phone tip: See more photos at once by pinching out to get to the ‘filmstrip’ view
  2. Windows Phone tip: Use emoticons when texting/IMing
  3. Windows Phone Tip: Keep your own skydrive album of great wallpapers

2011 1

  1. Photo book of photos taken with WP7

2010 2

  1. Aww yeah, baby.
  2. T minus 2 days to Windows Mobile 7 announcement

2009 3

  1. What would this be, a bleet?
  2. And continuing on that thought…
  3. Bad design is everywhere

2008 42

  1. How to make better software for users? Here's to so-called "soft" skills and fewer jerks.
  2. User behavior will *always* (eventually) trump technology
  3. Design is everywhere
  4. Hooray for clipart
  5. Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software
  6. Congratulations Dare!
  7. Human nature and email attachment security
  8. Lost the addressbar from the taskbar with XP SP3?
  9. Worst sign, ever.
  10. Vacation pictures
  11. Exchange team, innovating in content delivery yet again
  12. Not sure if I'm a typical user here
  13. Helping Indiana Jones & June from Little Einsteins get off to school
  14. Accountability
  15. What has two thumbs and likes microspotting?
  16. A new UX-themed tshirt we're making
  17. Enjoying microspotting
  18. Web design guidelines... in an easy-to-consume format!
  19. 7 Things you can't say on the internet
  20. MSFT Dining reminds us not to cross the streams
  21. Application scalability
  22. ....so, what's the difference, exactly?
  23. What contributes to information overload?
  24. It's *information* overload, not email overload
  25. Video y taco[1]
  26. Welcome to the naughts
  27. Evolution of customer feedback inputs
  28. It takes longer to write short things than to write long things.
  29. *Not* my first post, but...
  30. It's not true unless it's in a document
  31. Add some awesomeness to your life
  32. Kudos to the UM team
  33. Now *that's* a user scenario...
  34. Thank you, 20/20 program: "An object in motion tends to stay in motion"
  35. Waiting for my kindle...
  36. It's like the sun has been blacked out...
  37. Dancing concallers
  38. It's the little things
  39. Trying to enforce meaningless rules in your UI: Bad
  40. The power of words
  41. Finally, a Microsoft ad campaign I can get behind.
  42. Happy To Me

2007 31

  1. Sort data in Excel in "High, Medium, Low" order
  2. Joel Spolsky's latest article
  3. Get text pasted into Word/Outlook to format properly
  4. Happy holidays
  5. A note to my good friend Paul
  6. How ego surfing changes over time
  7. How to get rid of that *@#$@#$ annoying language bar in XP
  8. In the spirit...
  9. Debating...
  10. New career site
  11. The 20/20 program
  12. Running
  13. New OWA themes in SP1: Zune & Xbox!
  14. Count the number of folders in your mailbox with Outlook VBA
  15. How to determine if your users are satisfied
  16. Newest Technet article is up
  17. Least obvious yet terribly useful Outlook/OWA calendaring feature...
  18. rockin' out
  19. Don't fail me now, zune...
  20. Ideas for new Outlook macros?
  21. A sign that mommy's playing too much world of warcraft
  22. Quality in action
  23. I might be too old for this...
  24. Technet column readership patterns
  25. Oops
  26. Behind the scenes of software development
  27. Best. Ship Gift. Ever.
  28. Exchange admins - help me with an experiment?
  29. Funny how things go...
  30. The danger of multiple geeks in one household
  31. First installment of Queue & A is live

2006 31

  1. See who's answering the phone at Microsoft
  2. Off the grid
  3. In case you hadn't heard yet...
  4. I've got a feva, and the only cure is shipping Exchange 2007
  5. Quickly view the internet headers of a message in Outlook
  6. Idea: Monitors and sticky notes
  7. I'm sorry but I just can't stop laughing
  8. Me Too!
  9. This seems like a fear of commitment, but I swear it's not...
  10. Threepeat
  11. Great post on developing software
  12. Have your server delete your email for you... and LIKE it!
  13. Silence equals adoration?
  14. Words to live by: "Start with the little dragons"
  15. New Exchange PM joins the fray
  16. How to programatically mail-enable an Exchange public folder
  17. Tons o' screenshots of E2K7 Setup, Admin & OWA
  18. More evidence that e12 rocks
  19. Really, now...
  20. Now why would I want to do that?
  21. Use LDIFDE to look up the distribution lists a user is a member of
  22. Telemarketing
  23. Show the count of all items in a folder in Outlook, not just unread
  24. Surprise your users with an April Fool's Day OWA 2003 theme
  25. Amazing chalk art
  26. Someone at Amazon has a sense of humor
  27. Examples of how customer feedback shapes Exchange: Max Hop Count
  28. Give us your tired, your poor huddled limericks
  29. Where are all the women bloggers at?
  30. Attention mathletes
  31. Recipe for chicago-style stuffed pizza

2005 33

  1. I suppose technically this would be a meme
  2. Can't delete a folder in Outlook?
  3. Oh yeah, and if you're wondering about that five week old...
  4. Am I the only person...
  5. Say hello
  6. Pregnant geeks
  7. A geek's freudian slip
  8. I wish I could say I'll start posting more frequently soon...
  9. A free CHM compiler
  10. Back on the wagon
  11. Cheat Sheets
  12. What's the real RTM date? C'mon, you can tell me...
  13. The Three Dastardly D's: Derailing a Discussion on a Distribution list
  14. Finding a user with ldp.exe in a large container
  15. Settlers of Catan!
  16. No one forgets the spanish inquisition!
  17. Configure Sharepoint 2003 to store versions of your documents
  18. Convert DVD .VRO files to AVI
  19. Just gotta share...
  20. Switching jobs within Microsoft
  21. An update on personal stuff
  22. Attachment Security, Part Deux
  23. Everyone likes a funny knowledge base article, right?
  24. Geek homophones
  25. Can't erase ink while using My Font Tool for Tablet PC?
  26. A poor man's mail merge
  27. It's live...
  28. Word makes a bulleted list double spaced instead of single
  29. "checkout -d belly burgers fries cola"
  30. East side iz de best.
  31. "You forgot to attach the file!"
  32. Search my archives
  33. Miscellany

2004 238

  1. Ch-ch-ch-changes...
  2. Near..... far! Hard..... easy!
  3. Pressing backspace in Microsoft Word doesn't delete the text
  4. Geeks' hobbies, and working at Microsoft
  5. A different kind of red vs blue.
  6. Convert windows movie maker's DV Type-1 to Type-2
  7. Halo 2 skin for Windows Media Player
  8. Sophie's choice in software development
  9. A release manager's bag of tricks
  10. "Be a beacon"
  11. I don't get it.
  12. Those microsoft bloggers talk about the future too much!
  13. The newest addictive game from pop cap games
  14. If you're trying to buy a mini-SD online, be very cautious
  15. Social Engineering
  16. Crawling with parasites
  17. When you write code, you write bugs. Period.
  18. Clever cross-promotion from Amazon and A9.com
  19. See, Alanis, now *this* is Ironic
  20. I am now a TypePad evangelist
  21. Repairing a network connection in XP SP2
  22. We've joined the ranks of dorky parents everywhere
  23. Customer feedback
  24. How to stop IE from opening up Office docs inline
  25. And now for something completely different
  26. How do you manage your mail?
  27. Use the unicode smiley emoticon in email
  28. Change the default fonts in Outlook, Word, Excel and IE
  29. IE add-in to display HTTP header traffic
  30. The history of attachment security in Outlook, part 1 [1]
  31. Another tool to strip formatting from text
  32. Camping in the San Juans
  33. Turn off "auto-hide menus" in Office
  34. Something to try if your laptop screen regularly goes black and won't turn on
  35. KC's Comment Policy
  36. What a great use of technology
  37. KC's blog guidelines & comment policy
  38. Can't open embedded messages, no "Message" form in standard forms library
  39. Using ldp.exe to look up a user in the active directory
  40. How geek parents track their kids' milestones
  41. Explore the different formats in which you can save data from Office applications
  42. Spam as creative muse
  43. The employee morale dance
  44. RSS feeds on the Exchange community page
  45. How to get someone to answer your questions
  46. Yet another two cents on Microsoft's benefits package
  47. Strategies for being a program manager
  48. A few days away from RSS feeds on microsoft.com/exchange/community
  49. Momma said there'd be days like this
  50. Technology improving my way of life: renewing a driver's license
  51. Use your Tablet to make your handwriting into a font
  52. Give the guy/gal who came up with this one a huge raise
  53. How to transfer ratings on MP3s in Windows Media Player between machines
  54. Keyboard shortcuts to go to the Font & Font Size drop-downs in some Office applications
  55. How to stop the clicking sound when you click on a link in IE
  56. If you'd ever considered Physics over CS...
  57. Duh, Raymond... just pop up a dialog!
  58. The MSDN product feedback center - What about Exchange?
  59. Microsoft isn't the only company with great marketing
  60. My attempt to use RSSBandit
  61. My feelings on the anti-carb craze...
  62. Generate an inventory of core Microsoft products installed on your local computer or throughout your network
  63. Configure the pop-up blocker in XP SP2 RC2
  64. A theory as to why IE and explorer windows load sl...oo..w...ly...
  65. Add this one to your list of addictive little games
  66. Star Trek memories
  67. Turn your event logs into in an RSS feed
  68. Publish a web part on your sharepoint site that can be dynamically consumed inline by other sites
  69. HTTP Referrer, I hardly knew yee...
  70. Web applications in a global marketplace
  71. Set flags on multiple items at once
  72. Change the columns shown in the view in in Advanced Find
  73. Tired of repeating the same search in Advanced Find?
  74. Oh, behave...
  75. Tips on how to read code?
  76. An easy way to get a list of messages into a spreadsheet
  77. What is a plog?
  78. Help your BDM & TDM get informed about upgrading/migrating to Exchange 2003
  79. Three hundred and sixty seven days old
  80. In-cell editing in Outlook views
  81. A couple of great old LucasFilm games
  82. What is it exactly that you *do* here?
  83. The math of Futurama
  84. Humans are still smarter than computers
  85. Life skills
  86. How to add a custom toolbar button and give it a tooltip
  87. How to add a toolbar button & hotkey to empty the junk e-mail folder in Outlook 2003
  88. How to change the icons on custom toolbar buttons
  89. I wouldn't want to live in a world without Flash
  90. How to view HTTP Referrers on your sharepoint site
  91. How to give other people permission to non-standard folders
  92. The permissions tab on my calendar folder is missing
  93. INETA for IT Pro User Groups is here
  94. There's no such thing as a simple feature
  95. On security in web applications
  96. Display a custom alert when you receive new mail
  97. The Microsoft vocabulary
  98. If you're interested in seeing a periodical cicada emergence...
  99. Why is the 'contact' link hidden on the left side of this blog?
  100. Rate the content on office.microsoft.com, and see how your voice is heard
  101. Archives from Exchange & Outlook Magazine available online
  102. MIME messages delivered to public folders show up as post items
  103. How to save images in HTML mail in Outlook in formats other than BMP
  104. Corel's subservient chicken
  105. The ultimate boot CD
  106. Being open about your mistakes
  107. On women in high tech
  108. An even-handed approach...
  109. Don't you just hate getting phone calls for the person who had your number before you...
  110. Why am I the only one who likes Shii-Ann?
  111. SNL actually got it right
  112. Handy DNS lookup site
  113. I'll have a side helping of shared source with my long-standing feature request
  114. Take a peek at SP1 of OneNote
  115. Visual Studio team bios
  116. Have you customized your Global Address List templates? The Outlook team wants to know.
  117. Now them's some smart web services
  118. Get rid of one hierarchy of menus in Office
  119. How to tell if your great-great-great-great-grand-manager is cool
  120. Dreaming about work
  121. Why do you take so *@#$( long to release fixes?
  122. Shampoo-Banana [1]
  123. How to filter out rows with duplicate content in Excel
  124. How to tell the Exchange team to do a better job of documenting an eventID
  125. The directory of IT bloggers has been started...
  126. Even geeks can have gangs
  127. Set up a meeting with other attendees or Microsoft employees at Tech-Ed!
  128. The MVP Summit, Rudder & "The geekiest named blog"
  129. Finally!
  130. We've come a long way since Dr. Sbaitso...
  131. Add a link that goes directly to the middle of a Word document
  132. Microsoft Progress Report: Security
  133. "The object could not be found" when opening a custom form via the Favorites folder
  134. Quick tips for Outlook from the Office team
  135. UI changes over the years
  136. If you're in need of laughs...
  137. Trending of your blog's statistics
  138. Creativity in advertising
  139. More silly web games...
  140. Exchange hiring event in Seattle, April 26th-28th
  141. On being a dev...
  142. The route to becoming a tester
  143. Microsoft couples & bloggers
  144. How long is too long for a KB article?
  145. Did you know there's a "Most recently used" (MRU) list in the Location field of meeting requests?
  146. Old school
  147. Exchange vs Windows
  148. New white paper on client network traffic with exchange 2003 available
  149. How to track the comments you make on other people's blogs
  150. Hello, IT bloggers! Yes, that means both of you.
  151. How to assign a macro to a toolbar button in Outlook
  152. How to add VBA macro code to Outlook and run it once
  153. This is your M drive. This is your M drive after a virus scan. Get the picture?
  154. In search of stupidity
  155. Action item deliverable drive to resolution coordination asks disambiguation...
  156. How to synch other folders with your Pocket PC
  157. Nice touch on the "admin from hell" prank...
  158. Common problems when enabling RPC/HTTP(s) in Outlook 2003
  159. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life...
  160. If you're addicted to silly flash games...
  161. Of all the reasons to want LASIK...
  162. What it's like to be a Program Manager at Microsoft...
  163. Nice try, but no thanks
  164. New graphic for Exchange geek t-shirts is up...
  165. Buy a sheet of bills...
  166. The Exchange community on Orkut is up to 57 members!
  167. What's good swag nowadays?
  168. Create a signature with a picture in it
  169. I've joined the Tablet cult
  170. Meet the Exchange MVPs
  171. Feature Packs versus Service Packs: Why isn't it an easy decision?
  172. Exchange geeks, check this out...
  173. It *almost* went to 11...
  174. Can you envision smelly email?
  175. Outside In
  176. Harry Potter III trailer & photos
  177. Windows Security Update CD available for free
  178. Outlook: Your quick 'n dirty WYSIWIG HTML editor
  179. Pop or Soda?
  180. Attention Dr Gooey...
  181. The 8th wonder of the world
  182. What's new in Outlook 2003 for developers
  183. Blogging warm fuzzies
  184. Yes, Virginia, Microsoft is paying attention to blogging.
  185. What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing
  186. How to change the icons on custom toolbar buttons
  187. Dismissing task reminders doesn't mark the task as complete
  188. Excellent Outlook 2003 white paper available
  189. The Exchange team blog launched today
  190. Outlook.exe /cleanreminders versus /resetfolders
  191. My own little piece of Microsoft history
  192. 08:01 PM <google> will you be my friend?
  193. Warning: Don't make your photos look *too* good
  194. "I saw it on the web, it must be true!"
  195. The most common types of blog entries
  196. Is there any way to get at raw referrer logs via .Text?
  197. Slight modification to make "create task from email" more useful for me
  198. Create a task from an email
  199. Add toolbar buttons for your Office macros
  200. David asks how you're using the Windows 2003 POP server
  201. I'm a killjoy
  202. "Enable forms-based authentication" checkbox is grayed out on clusters
  203. Naming the colored flags in Outlook 2003
  204. Friday, January 30th, is "Hug an IT Pro" day
  205. Blogging about existing technology versus "the future"
  206. More on cleaning up Word's HTML
  207. Does content indexing apply for search folders?
  208. Executable attachments can be bad, mmmkay?
  209. Testing for the web
  210. Alanis Morisette - the Nostradamus for the Naughts
  211. Yummy
  212. ASP.Net samples of WebDAV against Exchange 2003
  213. Should Microsoft add features in service packs?
  214. Check out the MVP-submitted KB articles!
  215. More than you ever wanted to know about mailbox management in Exchange 2003
  216. Don't back up system state and mailboxes at the same time with Exchange 2003/Windows 2003
  217. The sweat equity of mapping software redux
  218. This blog is the second coolest thing on the internet
  219. Do a favor for your Exchange administrator
  220. Gee, where have I seen her face before?
  221. Discuss the latest patch from Microsoft with PSS tomorrow, 1/16
  222. Tips from Tosh
  223. Enter the Windows 2003 challenge and win $15,000
  224. How to make the "Links" folder not show up in IE's favorites
  225. Use Alt+S to send a message in Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2000/2003 when using Internet Explorer 5+
  226. Archive from my old blog now available
  227. Newsgator fans: A .Text plugin that supports categories
  228. What bugs you about www.microsoft.com/exchange?
  229. What determines whether or not you get the Open/Save dialog when opening an attachment?
  230. A tool to remove Blaster or Nachi
  231. Attention Tom Lehrer fans...
  232. New download to remove 'hidden' data from Office files
  233. Count the number of items in your entire mailbox
  234. HTML email: friend or foe?
  235. How to avoid accidentally sending a message before you're ready
  236. What's the coolest thing you ever did with the Internet?
  237. Finally went in on a home photo studio
  238. Blogging in a sunny winterland

2003 81

  1. Do you work with cookies? Worried about security?
  2. A new tool for helping put your Task Preparation Sheets together
  3. Magical disappearing messages with Outlook 2002
  4. Why isn't "Allow comma as address separator" enabled by default?
  5. Multi-generational video games
  6. Outlook keyboard shortcuts
  7. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by lack of customer love
  8. I love software testing
  9. The "Executive Summary" feature
  10. Adding inline HTML to messages
  11. Remove extraneous HTML cruft when using Word as your editor
  12. Find out what version of Exchange is on a server
  13. How to add links with spaces in them to email
  14. A quick way to get context for a message in your inbox
  15. Chats about searching microsoft.com and the security bulletins
  16. Making the web easier for toddlers
  17. How customer-focused is your blog/website?
  18. Come on baby, drive my car... with bluetooth!
  19. Want a job in the Exchange team?
  20. impruv iur speling
  21. How to make Outlook link to images on the web in HTML mail
  22. How does Microsoft use clustering with Exchange?
  23. Help Office build better products
  24. Crabby office lady dishes on outlook versus outlook express
  25. Configure how long the 'desktop alert' stays on the screen
  26. Fox is listening to its customers...
  27. Figure out which Exchange development technology is right for you
  28. 28.35 grams of prevention is worth 453.6 grams of cure
  29. Communities @ Microsoft
  30. Building and shipping software at Microsoft
  31. Automatically color items based on their category
  32. Server-side spam filtering in Exchange 2003
  33. Programmatically clear IE 6 SP1's cached credentials
  34. View the contents of multiple folders with a single click
  35. Try before you buy
  36. The internet as a time capsule
  37. Statistics about www.microsoft.com
  38. Create inline MHTML attachments
  39. Interviewing & testing/program management at microsoft
  40. Natural language parsing in date fields in Outlook
  41. Innovation in work/life balance
  42. The sweat equity of mapping software
  43. Outlook Web Access URL parameters
  44. Bugs in spammer's software
  45. Security bulletin search service launched
  46. Going offline until November
  47. Find out what Microsoft's IT department is doing
  48. Raging fires in California...
  49. Plus an Excel tip for today...
  50. Intellimouse navigation within Outlook
  51. Minimize Outlook 2003 to the system tray (er, taskbar notification area)
  52. Top ten tasks for new Exchange administrators
  53. Make Newsgator and Outlook work even better together
  54. My son rolled over!
  55. Prevent Reply All/Forward in mail to other Outlook users
  56. Enable reminders for non-default folders in Outlook
  57. Porn disclaimer
  58. Stupid calendar tricks
  59. How to control the "two line view" in Outlook 2003
  60. Pre-fill in "To" field on a new message in OWA 2003
  61. Items deleted via IMAP are available in the dumpster
  62. Keyboard shortcuts in OWA 2003
  63. Row persistence in Outlook
  64. The keyboard junkie strikes again
  65. Easy to remember URLs for Exchange 2003 resources
  66. See what servers Outlook 2003 is connected to
  67. Trial version of Zoo Tycoon available
  68. Multi-select days in the calendar in OWA 2000
  69. Show multiple timezones in Outlook
  70. Gnap
  71. Welcome aboard, Megan!
  72. Fun RSS feeds
  73. Have you googlism.com'd yourself?
  74. View raw MIME of messages in Outlook 2003
  75. Auto-completion in Outlook
  76. Amazon URL shortening
  77. Great tech book
  78. Exchange/OWA tip o' the day
  79. Why is an Out-Of-Office referred to as an OOF?
  80. Outlook 2003 tip o' the day
  81. There's a new blog in town