I've been in Seattle all week attending the 2007 MVP Summit and besides catching a cold, I've had a great time.  I met some fellow MVPs, and got to attend some interesting technical talks with the Microsoft folks.
I want to thank Microsoft for the invitation and for rolling the welcome mat for the MVPs.

After 16+ years, yesterday was Jim's last day as a full-time Microsoft employee and he wrote an article on what today would probably be like for him.
Take a look if you need a good laugh.

I saw mention of this Ben Vollmer's blog this past weekend then one of my other friends at Microsoft sent me a link to the following article:
How to configure daylight saving time for the United States in 2007
Evidentially, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed the Daylight Saving Time start and end dates, among other [...]

Back in May of 2006, when I got 3 of my Dynamics CRM certifications, I suggested heavily to the MBS Certification people that they really needed to invest a little effort in creating a logo that matches the other Microsoft logos we have.  Well, at some point in the recent past, they did that:
 

 
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Greetings Everyone,
I have two anniversaries to celebrate in the next few days:
1) My blog is one year old today.
I posted my first article, exactly 12 months ago, today.  It has been very interesting and exciting to meet people from around the world who work with the same systems that I do, and who encounter many [...]

Greetings Everyone,
I just wanted to take a moment to wish each of you a happy and safe holiday season.
I'm off on a short vacation back to Arkansas to see my family for Christmas so it is a pretty sure bet that more Tall Tales and Meanderings will closely follow.  I found a Barnes & Noble in [...]

Yep. You heard me. WordPerfect.  So here's the story:
Back in the late '80's and early '90's I was a bit of a WordPerfect guru.  As in, "not a Mitch, the Mitch."  :)
I had a blast creating macros, document automation, and document management solutions and was very active in our user community.
I also had the pleasure of writing [...]

I love people with an honest sense of humor.

This utility is mostly used by organizations that run CRM Professional, since the Exchange email server can be located on a different server than the CRM Server. If you have not installed the SMTP mail service on the CRM Server and you do not wish it to perform outbound email functionality, you would use this [...]

Greetings everyone.
Well, I finally got around to finishing up the update to my company web site: CRM Accelerators
It has been quite an adventure.  As with most web sites, you can't see most of what I did.  I actually find it a bit irritating that I spent so much time on something that is really [...]