KC Lemson
By KC Lemson [MS]
And now for something completely different
I did it once before... I just can't hold this one in: He took his first steps! He's also learning...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2004
How do you manage your mail?
3 months before I moved out here and started working at Microsoft, a friend of mine told me: "KC,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2004
Use the unicode smiley emoticon in email
When you type ":-)" in Word, it automatically corrects it into a smiley (J)[1], which is the letter...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2004
Change the default fonts in Outlook, Word, Excel and IE
We recently had a debate on the internal bloggers distribution list about how MSDN bloggers need to...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2004
IE add-in to display HTTP header traffic
When I worked on OWA, I used NetMon a lot to do sniffs of the traffic between client and server....
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/23/2004
The history of attachment security in Outlook, part 1 [1]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. Moreover, I'm describing...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/16/2004
Another tool to strip formatting from text
This is a common topic on the blogosphere for people pasting in content from other blogs, pieces of...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2004
Camping in the San Juans
I've been to SeaWorld once or twice in my life, and I've seen giant killer whales do jumps in the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2004
Turn off "auto-hide menus" in Office
This is one of those features that a lot of people love to hate, where you have to wait a few...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/06/2004
Something to try if your laptop screen regularly goes black and won't turn on
I have been suffering with this problem on my Toshiba Tablet m200 for quite some time, and finally...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/02/2004
KC's Comment Policy
I reserve the right to edit, delete, or ignore any comment. I don't delete comments disagreeing with...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/30/2004
What a great use of technology
Check this out. How great is that? And to think, when the folks who created SMS were dreaming it up,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/30/2004
KC's blog guidelines & comment policy
I copied Raymond and created a comments policy. It ended up being more than a comments policy, and I...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/30/2004
Can't open embedded messages, no "Message" form in standard forms library
I got myself into a bad state a while back where I was unable to open messages attached to other...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/29/2004
Using ldp.exe to look up a user in the active directory
I'm tired of having to look up the query syntax every time I need to do it, so blogging it: 1. Start...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2004
How geek parents track their kids' milestones
Normal parents would track a baby's progress by noting when he first learned to sort things, such as...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/22/2004
Explore the different formats in which you can save data from Office applications
A few months ago I posted about [what I think is] a neat way of using Outlook's ability to save as...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/21/2004
Spam as creative muse
First we had songs written about spam. Now there are poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by spam subject...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/21/2004
The employee morale dance
I've been reading up a lot on strategies to motivate employees and increase morale, and I ran across...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/20/2004
RSS feeds on the Exchange community page
As I promised before... it's now live. A ton of kudos for the mscom team for listening to community...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/14/2004
How to get someone to answer your questions
I learned a wonderful trick today that completely resonates with me, and I wanted to share it....
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/14/2004
Yet another two cents on Microsoft's benefits package
An article in the Seattle PI that's making the rounds of the internal DLs this morning prompted me...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/12/2004
Strategies for being a program manager
PMing is an odd thing. Sometimes it's difficult to figure out what you did all week, especially if...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/11/2004
A few days away from RSS feeds on microsoft.com/exchange/community
I'm so psyched. I just saw a build on the internal staging server of our community page, where it...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/09/2004
Momma said there'd be days like this
She just never said how many: (I assure you that my meetings aren't really that interesting, but I...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/07/2004
Technology improving my way of life: renewing a driver's license
Yesterday was my birthday. (pause momentarily for rampant 'wahoos'. Done? OK, back to the program)....
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/07/2004
Use your Tablet to make your handwriting into a font
I decided tonight that I wanted to make a font out of my own handwriting. Surely it's possible to do...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/05/2004
Give the guy/gal who came up with this one a huge raise
I learned last week about this amazing product, Crayola Color Wonder (with Color Wonder Technology...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/03/2004
How to transfer ratings on MP3s in Windows Media Player between machines
I just got a new desktop machine and was faced with this problem: How to transfer the ratings when I...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/02/2004
Keyboard shortcuts to go to the Font & Font Size drop-downs in some Office applications
In certain Office apps that support it, such as Word & Outlook, I have “Show shortcut keys...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/01/2004
How to stop the clicking sound when you click on a link in IE
By default, IE makes a clickety sound when you follow a link. It can get annoying after a while....
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/01/2004
If you'd ever considered Physics over CS...
You might want to think again. (Side note: at one point, the team of people who were in charge of...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/30/2004
Duh, Raymond... just pop up a dialog!
I really enjoyed some of the comments on Raymond Chen's latest entry. As I read them, I thought to...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/30/2004
The MSDN product feedback center - What about Exchange?
Many others have blogged about it. One of the comments in Scoble's entry asked if other products...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/30/2004
Microsoft isn't the only company with great marketing
Really, I'm just surprised it took this long. These days, kids get potty trained later and later,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2004
My attempt to use RSSBandit
I tried, I tried really hard. I kept hearing from RSS Bandit users who loved it, and although I'm a...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2004
My feelings on the anti-carb craze...
Can be best summed up by this: (More brilliance can be found here) What's really annoying me these...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2004
Generate an inventory of core Microsoft products installed on your local computer or throughout your network
Using the Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer.
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2004
Configure the pop-up blocker in XP SP2 RC2
Jeff Davis covers some valuable registry keys: PopupMgr - Whether the pop-up blocker feature is...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/21/2004
A theory as to why IE and explorer windows load sl...oo..w...ly...
I've been suffering silently with this problem for a long time. It happens on all of my machines....
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/21/2004
Add this one to your list of addictive little games
Here's a new one that has sucked more than a couple of hours off of my life this weekend:...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2004
Star Trek memories
This love letter to Star Trek reminded me of my own warm fuzzy memory of star trek. I was the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2004
Turn your event logs into in an RSS feed
Greg did this over a year ago, but I just stumbled on it now. Pretty neat: You can specify in the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2004
Publish a web part on your sharepoint site that can be dynamically consumed inline by other sites
The Exchange team uses sharepoint portal server for a lot of things, such as storing & tracking...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/17/2004