Microsoft Field Evangelist: Egan, Palermo, Terkaly, Villalobos

Most of you know I’m pretty very well connected into Microsoft. Mostly because it’s been my playground for the last few decades. I’ve been an MVP since 2003, and Regional Directory since 2011, and my company is an Approved Vendor with Microsoft that … [Continue reading]

Amazon Prime Movies: Cheaper on the Website

I just tried to rent my first Amazon Prime movie, on the Roku set top box. On the website the movie was $2.99, and on the TV Buy it now was $3.99. Perfect. Supply and Demand, I love it. 99 times out of a 100 people on the TV just want to watch a … [Continue reading]

What if you lose your Kindle?

I was on a plane yesterday reading my Kindle, and the guy next to me says something like “I used to have a Kindle, but I left it on a plane”, while he was pointing to the Seat-Back Pocket. And another time this week, I saw something on TV about the … [Continue reading]

Deactivate the Power Button on your Laptop

As you see pictured here, the MacBook Air power button is just above the Delete (which really is backspace) button on the MacBook Air keyboard. If you’ve ever seen me type, you know I use the backspace key a lot! Once I accidentally pressed the power … [Continue reading]

A good book gets borrowed: Version Control By Example

Eric Sink (@eric_sink on twitter) has written a great book on Version Control Software, titled Version Control By Example. It showed up on my desk again this morning. I say again, because I keep letting people borrow it, and they keep returning it :) … [Continue reading]