Wow!  I ran across a new word today: Psychographic
[From Wikipedia.]
In the field of marketing, demographics, opinion research, and social research in general, psychographic variables are any attributes relating to personality, values, attitudes, interests, or lifestyles. They are also called IAO variables (for Interests, Attitudes, and Opinions). They can be contrasted with demographic variables (such as […]

Holy Cow Batman!  Did I have fun last week or what? 
Without a doubt, the MVP Summit 2008 was the most fun and productive conference I've ever attended.
Not only did we get to hang out with the CRM Product Group for two full days, but the CRM MVPs had an absolute blast hanging out together […]

As you know, CRM 4.0 introduced multi-language features into the product.  This means a slight change in the way we retrieve metadata related to Entity names.
The DisplayName property for an Entity has been changed slightly to ensure that you always have access to the localized version of the Entity name.  A sub-property called UserLocLabel has […]

I found a minor issue with the URL that allows you to generate WSDL for the CRM Online Discovery Service.
If you navigate to Settings, Customization, Download Web Service Description Files, you're presented with the following set of links:

The Discovery Web Service link is:
https://crm.dynamics.com/MSCrmServices/2007/Passport/CrmDiscoveryService.asmx
when it should be:
https://dev.crm.dynamics.com/MSCRMServices/2007/Passport/CrmDiscoveryService.asmx
A minor issue but hopefully this note will save […]

I ran into an issue this morning testing one of my CRM add-ons.  Basically, I was processing items from an inbound, email-enabled Queue within CRM. When the processing was completed, I delete the Queue item - but it still remained in the Queue.  You could not longer open it, and as far as CRM was […]

I've donated blood pretty much all of my adult life but I started donating red blood cells (RBCS, or "double-reds") a little over 4 years ago.  It takes a while given the fact that you can only donate every 112 days, but last month I finally hit pretty cool milestone:

My friend Steve Noe has updated the standard Quote template that ships with CRM 4.0 to correct some design issues.
Check it out.

I said the following Wednesday night for some unknown, but apparent at the time, reason:
Don't bother me with things like the truth and reality and stuff. They can suck.

Seen while canceling a web-based time sheet account that I was using for a test:

If you have access to PartnerSource or CustomerSource, you can take a look at the CRM-related articles released in the past month or so.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM New Knowledge Base Articles for February 2008View the complete list of the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that were published in the past three months for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.https://mbs.microsoft.com/public/insights/ReadArticle.aspx?rcpt_id=14889435&ja_id=46237
Microsoft Dynamics […]