You can find information about my original post topic here. I originally developed the plugin back in September 2006 and am just getting around to updating some of its functionality.  I have had several requests from users to update the plugin to include the Associate ID tag which gives credit to the associate when a purchase is made. I have updated the install package to include the Associate ID functionality.  As I am writing this, I realized that I should’ve wrote in some code to actually remember the Associate ID being used.  I’ll add that in the next iteration to come shortly (hopefully in the next couple of days). The package assumes that you have Windows Live Writer Beta 2 installed.  I haven’t tested the updated package on Beta 1, so I can’t guarantee it will work with Beta 1. Please post any comments with questions or other suggestions for…

I was in Las Vegas on vacation last week.  A “run-in” probably isn’t the right wording, but it sounded interesting, right?  On Saturday we were walking through the new Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino and checking out the Miracle Mile Shops when we came across a sports memorabilia store.  It was none other than “Charlie Hustle” himself sitting at a table and signing autographs.  Here are a couple photos that I took while passing through. I didn’t wait in line for an autograph and was a little torn anyway when thinking if I should.  Pete Rose was a phenomenal baseball player.  After all he holds the records for most hits, at-bats, games played, and outs.  That is pretty impressive. But, he made the mistake of betting on baseball, and in some cases for or against his own team.  In 2004 he admitted to the betting and was banned from ever…

I recently acquired a T-Mobile Wing since my wife needed a smartphone and wound up with my old T-Mobile Dash. I love the Wing with the Pocket PC layout and Windows Mobile 6 with Office Mobile Professional.  The only thing I noticed and also have read online was that T-Mobile released it with a configuration of 12MB reserved for the pagepool memory.  This left in most cases less than 10-15MB available for the pagepool and would cause users to run out of memory rather quickly. I did some research online and found that Paul from MoDaCo wrote up an article on how to modify the pagepool configuration inside the ROM.  This involved extracting the ROM from the device, doing some hex editing, and then reflashing the device with the modified ROM.  This process is not for the faint of heart. If you’re interested in reading more on the process, you…

When I’m writing code, I don’t like to spend a lot of time fumbling around the framework.  Like tonight, I was looking for a simple way to write to the event log in Windows.  I went to Google and did a quick search and found the Microsoft knowledge base article entitled “How to write to an event log by using Visual C#”. In less than 2 minutes I was able use this code to create a routine that allowed me to write to the event log.

I was in Seattle this past week, and I got to thinking about the advancements in speech recognition.  As I was thinking, I started wondering if the speech recognition functionality was any good in Windows Vista.  So I decided to give it a try myself. Setting up is very easy.  The process is completely wizard driven.  You select the type of microphone that you’re going to use, and follow the directions that are given as you walk through the training process. The setup and the training take about 15 minutes.  Then you can start using speech recognition to do anything from dictating an email, creating a blog post, or controlling Windows.  It is actually pretty cool! So, I used Windows Vista speech recognition to create this blog post.  It took me about 10 minutes to do so, but it’s kind of fun to not have to type and just be…