Entries from November 2007

November 20, 2007

Windows Live Search- Why does it not find my WordPress hosted blog to be relevant?

12/13/2007 Update- Since my original writing Live Search seems to be much more effective at picking up this site. Probably a coincidence, but still good to see.
I recently did a search on Windows Live Search to find some old content on my blog. Much to my chagrin, my WordPress blog is no longer ranked on [...]

November 20, 2007

Covering Microsoft Search Server for Wrox Blox

After resting a bit following our SharePoint and Office 2007 book I’m happy to say that Wrox is having me back to do a Wrox Blox on Microsoft Search Server. This will be targeted at developers and will focus on some of the key differences between Search Server Express and the full version that impact [...]

November 20, 2007

New blog theme

Felt like time for a new blog theme. Summertime picture of Gavin featured in the header. Peace.

November 20, 2007

Black Friday- Where are all the deals?

I know we still have a couple of days, but I haven’t seen too many “Black Friday” deals announced yet. The most recent report that I saw on Best Buy indicates that there will be a $229 laptop, which is a deal of course, but other than that nothing really seems compelling. A 40″ TV for [...]

November 20, 2007

Congrats Hanselmans!

Congratulations to the Hanselmans on their new addition named Thabo. Total time from arrival to delivery was 43 minutes. Wow!

November 20, 2007

Windows Live OneCare 2.0 has shipped

It looks like Windows Live OneCare 2.0 (let’s call it OneCare, shall we?) has shipped. InsideMicrosoft provides a few details here. The things I’m interested to check out are the networking features, security wizards and the online backup features. For a lot of my friends and relatives that aren’t PC-saavy this could prove to be a nice [...]