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redefine christmas
i just recently learned that someone i met at a church conference a year and a half ago is the vice...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 01/03/2009
only 9 days
i had an xbox 360 finally fail and sent it in for repair (during the holidays - so my xbox became...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 01/02/2009
new windows home server from hp
with the new year coming thursday, i just read a post about the new windows home server models...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 12/31/2008
netflix using silverlight - and xbox 360 and tivo
wow - i can't believe how cool netflix is right now. i've opted into the silverlight...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 12/30/2008
i'm a pc - stamps!
wow - i guess i can send some old school mail with i'm a pc stamps between now and the end of the...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 12/18/2008
aero shortcut keys and another helpful tip
i was listening to paul thurrott's windows weekly podcast on my way to wisconsin today and learned a...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 12/12/2008
america's first indoor legoland discovery center now open!
as a child, i unleashed my imagination in many creative ways. one of the first toys that i remember...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 12/06/2008
first failure on my xbox 360 - time for a repair
this evening i have experienced my first failure on my xbox 360. it's been a great system, so i...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 12/06/2008
add another 4 installations of Windows 7 (eventually i'll pull out the new calc applet and see where i'm at....)
so i've installed my first windows 7 home premium build 6801 and my first upgrade to an existing...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 12/02/2008
common's new album for 99 cents
in case you didn't know - i'm a huge fan of rap music. old school, new and emerging artists,...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 12/02/2008
zune pass - includes 10 songs per month
wow - this just brought me back to a zune subscription. in the past when i went through periods of...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 11/27/2008
first multi touch notebook...
...is from hp! i've got the tz1000 tablet which also allows touch, but the hp tx2z series supports...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 11/26/2008
add other 16 additional installations of windows 7
i'm slowly but surely racking up installations of windows 7 on systems. i've now done my first few...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 11/25/2008
nxe will be released on wednesday
we're rescheduling our wednesday cwug live meeting, but fortunately there will be something for...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 11/18/2008
almost got to test remote wipe on my windows mobile device...
we've been on vacation for a few days and at some point on the second to last day i left my cell...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 11/11/2008
cwug windows home server live meetings begin tonight!
as i'm blogging this, ray casey is kicking off the first in a series of windows home server live...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 11/05/2008
election 2008
early in this election season my wife (another and the most important influence in my life i'll...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 11/05/2008
three more installations of windows 7 - brings me to seven systems tested.
i did some additional testing on three dell desktop systems with the pre beta windows 7 build - fast...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 11/03/2008
windows home server system builder price decrease!
just in time for the thanksgiving - windows home server system builder price decrease! i've got one...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/31/2008
windows home server and build 2 of windows 7!
woo hoo! i'm running the windows home server connector on my 64 bit windows 7 build. need to double...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/31/2008
builds 3 and 4
my first two builds of windows 7 in one way brought me back to when windows vista was in beta...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/31/2008
boot performance of windows vista
i'm an impatient person with computers. i wasn't always this way. i remember when you could watch...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/31/2008
2 installs - 698 to go...
one of my goals with windows 7 is to install and test it on as many systems and as many times as i...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/29/2008
pdc windows 7 keynote on demand
today i'm spending some time to watch the part of steven sinofsky's keynote that i didn't see...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/29/2008
cwug windows home server webcasts begin in november!
cwug started our online endeavors with chris urban's management track. next month, ray casey takes...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/29/2008
windows 7 blog added to windows team blog
if you haven't been over to the windows team blog lately, check it out today. wish i was in los...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/28/2008
joel schoenberg's desktop insiders technical briefing
one of my counterparts, joel schoenberg has a desktop insiders blog. joel has been one of the...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/23/2008
the chicago virtualization launch is less than a week away!
windows server 2008 with hyper-v, presentation virtualization, vdi, desktop virtualization with...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/22/2008
becoming a big
my sister in law and her husband were both involved in big brothers big sisters as bigs before they...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/20/2008
get searchperks!
a while ago i posted information on searchandgive.com which i am still a huge supporter of (and...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/18/2008
my friend martha
when i made the transition from consulting to training, i met a woman named martha at my soon to be...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/17/2008
mdop charter member program
thanks to christopher kusek for remembering to blog about this (after i mentioned it, but apparently...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/17/2008
100 members in facebook!
the day before our big october 2008 cwug meeting we hit 100 members in our facebook group. you have...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/15/2008
windows 7 will be called...
mike nash posted the official name for the upcoming windows client release and it will be called...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/15/2008
tekken 6 coming to xbox 360
tekken - the game i purchased a playstation 2 to play - is coming to xbox 360! tekken 6 will be the...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/09/2008
htc touch cruise
i'm carrying the htc touch cruise these days. it's a touch screen, windows mobile 6, unlocked phone...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/09/2008
giving campaign
it's october again and at the end of the month i will have been with microsoft for 3 years. starting...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/09/2008
beta streaming - works great
i really like horror movies. ever since middle school i've enjoyed well made (and not so well made)...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/08/2008
overrated and underrated tech products
over the weekend i had the opportunity to check out a list of the 10 most over and under rated...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/07/2008
last chance - register for the pdc2008 or get virtual now chicago event
the professional developers conference is scheduled for the end of october in los angeles - sign up...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/06/2008
couple more windows experience indexes
over the weekend i rated a couple more laptop systems - one with an intel core 2 duo t9300 @ 2.50...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/05/2008
over 2800 prepare to dogfood...
at microsoft, one of my favorite activities is testing software before it goes public - the process...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/04/2008
the it crowd comes to ifc
just got a heads up from a coworker that the it crowd is now on ifc. along with the henry rollins...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/03/2008
windows experience index in windows vista
5.9 for primary hard disk - will have to compare this to a couple of my other systems, but this is...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 10/03/2008
revisiting windows steadystate
i do most of my reconfiguration of systems today using virtual pc, virtual server or hyper-v. even...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 09/24/2008
big bang theory
big bang theory season 2 premieres this evening and because nbc isn't doing an american version of...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 09/22/2008
terri sjodin - author, speaker, consultant
while i was still a technical trainer, i watched terri sjodin's "new sales speak: the 9 biggest...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 09/21/2008
i'm a pc!
finally! a commercial celebrating the pc! check out the latest commercials here.
Author: Dan Rey Date: 09/18/2008
windows vista performance part 2
readyboost is your friend! i've been making some adjustments on my 2 gb and 4 gb work laptop lately...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 09/17/2008
influences - bill gates
in my continuing posts about people that have influenced me in one way or another (in no particular...
Author: Dan Rey Date: 09/17/2008