Back in June I set up a Windows Home Server (WHS) on my network out of the necessity of needing to backup the three machines that we have. Plus the laptop, with its paltry 20GB drive, just didn't have the space the kids needed for all of their pictures and music files so WHS just made too much sense given all that it does. The ability to store everyone's "My Documents" folder on the server plus the ability to share images, music, and videos on the network as well as a means to back up each machine daily were what sold me. I loved how easy it was to set up and how it basically took care of itself with little or no interaction required to keep things in order. And as an added bonus, the ability to log into the WHS from anywhere via a web interface made getting to our files painless when we're away from the house. Trust me, you don't know how much you would use that feature until you have it at your disposal! More...

I’m putting this out there to help anyone who may be banging their head against their monitor. I hope this helps! More...

According to The Windows 7 Team Blog, Microsoft will release Windows 7 on October 22, 2009 just in time for the holiday season. There will be six versions of Windows 7; Starter Edition, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate, and Home Basic. The price for each version hasn’t been released.

After working with the beta version and now with the RC, I’m looking forward to this release. I’ve been using XP because of all of the horror stories associated with Vista when it was released and I really like the way that 7 (or as some put it Vista RC2) manages memory, especially when you have multiple applications running. More...

The latest release of BlogEngine.net  was officially released yesterday after spending a week or so in Release Candidate state and it’s version 1.5. There’s a couple of great new items like nested comments, improved Metaweblog API which works great with Windows Live Writer as well as some performance tune-ups. Is it worth upgrading from 1.4.5? You bet! You should do it now as a matter of fact!

However, the official release (build 1.5.07), even after spending time as a RC, had a few minor problems, none of which are deal breakers in my opinion. More...

I’ve been looking for a way to display a gallery or slideshow of images that I’ve taken over the years here on my site and unfortunately BlogEngine.net doesn’t have one built in (yet). I started doing some research and found a really cool slideshow created by Vertigo and powered by Microsoft Silverlight, but getting it to work with BlogEngine.net seemed a little over my head as far as programming in .NET is concerned. Fortunately, Bill Beckelman created an extension for BlogEngine.net that allows you to publish the slideshow in a post, and someone posted on Bill’s blog on how the code could be modified so that the extension would work on a page instead of a post.

So that’s how my Slideshow came about. It’s just some pictures of my brother’s wedding and two trips to Bristol Motor Speedway for the NASCAR races. I’ll be adding more albums to it in the future as I figure out which pictures I want to post. The link is on the right under the Pages section, or you can just click here.

Thanks for taking a look!