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Every few months I make a renewed effort to do the "social networking" thing. I download the latest tools, poke around, post status updates, read other people's stuff, and basically try to "live it".  I've been pretty consistent with using Facebook regularly. Last week...

09-22-02 107.jpg Originally uploaded by ckindel I just updated my Windows Home Server with Ed Halloway's PhotoSync Beta 2 . This Add-in for Windows Home Server automatically ensures that all photos stored in a particular folder on your home server are automatically published to your Flickr account...

I've been quiet on my blog because I have been waiting to get it upgraded to CS2007. Thanks to Kevin Harder's help I finally got it done. I will be tweaking the look and feel for those of you who do not use a reader, but for now this is what you get. With this change my ancient and very crusty...

I'm getting old and I think some of this newfangled technology stuff is beyond me. But that doesn't stop me from trying to understand (and use it). I learn by doing. I can't learn by reading. So I started blogging mostly to learn how blogs and blogging really worked. I run 6 servers in my house so I...

Man there's been a buzz around transparency lately... I honestly don't have any insight into some grand plan at Microsoft about blogging and transparency. I can only point to my own personal experieces, and I have a timely example: Last week a member of my team posted to the Windows Home Server Team...

So far I think they all suck. What am I talking about? RSS Aggrigators. I've been bouncing back and forth between RSS Bandit, Google Reader, Outlook 2007, and several others for the last few months and none of them make me happy. A critical requirement for me is to be able to access my feedlist, with...

Rick has posted several more parts of his ongoing series on Windows Home Server based on his discussions with me. He's up to “Part 4“ as of today: Part 1 - Security of Data, User Privacy Part 2 - User Management Part 3 - Business/Marketing Part 4 - Technology Enjoy...

First, I think the idea of having a conversation via blogs is funny. In his post today Robert says “I hope to interview Charlie Kindel (he runs the Home Server group) when I visit Seattle later this month...“ Since he didn't send me email with a request to meet, I guess I'm suppposed to reply...

Way back in January 2005 a blogger named Rick Hallihan wrote a post titled Windows Server, Home Edition . I freaked out. I was worried that someone had leaked the details of “Q” (our internal codename for Windows Home Server) to this guy! He was obviously speculating, but it sure seemed like...

My team (the Windows Home Server team) now has a blog . Here's the abstract for this new blog. This blog is managed by the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft. Our goal with the blog is to educate and inform families with multiple PCs about how Windows Home Server will help them easily store, protect...