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Posted on Wednesday, 30th July 2008 by Shaun Kester

Is Microsoft sending mixed signals by showing Office 2007(2008) on (what I assume) is a MacBook on Office.Microsoft.com? There is just so many things wrong with that, I’m not sure where to start.
Some possible messages from this:

Macs are better for students.
Office 2008 is prettier on a Mac.
Current PC laptops are ugly.
We really do care about [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 30th July 2008 by Shaun Kester

Just some random thoughts on website hosting…
I keep checking the Media Temple System Status page by hitting F5 repeatedly. I’m having Account Center withdrawals, it has been down all morning. All of my sites are still up, just the control panel is taking a day off. They give us customers such neat tools that not [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 24th July 2008 by Shaun Kester

I figured that while I was talking about productivity increasing software, I’d mention RocketDock.

If you like a clean desktop like I do, then this is a great tool to have.
Rocket Dock by Punk Software

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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 by Shaun Kester

I spent an hour today trying to assist a fellow developer with debugging why Internet Explorer 6 suddenly started throwing the dreadfully hard to fix ‘Operation Aborted’ errors on page load. After stripping the page down one piece at a time, he was able to determine that having the following code in the head…
<base target=”_top”>
…while [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 by Shaun Kester

As I’m developing software, I need a lot of screen real estate and access to more then one OS for browser testing. To that end I have an XP desktop and a Vista laptop. Up until today, I’ve had a keyboard/mouse combo for the desktop and used the built in kb/mouse on the laptop. I [...]

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