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Body: It's been a while since I posted anything, especially anything worth reading. I've been contemplating a blog redesign and forgot that I should continue writing content. I've also been a wee bit distracted by work and life. Here are a few things to point out: 1. Just added my twitter feed to my home page using the MOSSMan method http://blog.drisgill.com/2009/04/using-xml-web-part-to-show-your-twitter.html 2. Blog is back to its old color. I hated the black (and so did you). It was very hard to see the text and sometimes the font would inexplicitly disappear. More importantly, I also confirmed displaying black on LCD monitors (which the majority of you are using) actually requires more energy than lighter colors negating the entire reason for going black in the first place....

Body: What an amazing week the last 7 days were! Never have I had so much fun, connected with such great people, and learned so much in such a short amount of time. The out-of-control (in a fun way) cab ride from the airport to the Hotel Vondel in Amsterdam traffic was a good indicator of how the rest of the week was going to transpire. SharePoint Day with the Experts in Amsterdam (actually in Amstelveen –next door) started at 10 and I was getting a little worried when just of handful of folks showed up slightly before 10, but people started pouring in and by 10:15 we had a very sizable crowd growing. Unfortunately, our event organizers and our keynote, SharePoint Joel , hadn't yet showed up. It was going to be a short event without them. Luckily they showed up just in the nick of time...

Body: I will be speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices conference in London England, April 6 th -8 th . As usual, I will be focused on administrative and architectural topics such as performance, capacity planning, SQL, storage, virtualization, backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery all crammed into 3 sessions: Monday April 6 th 1:15 to 2:30 IT106 - SharePoint, SQL, and Storage: Best practices for a winning combination Monday April 6 th 4:15 – 5:30 IT104 – Capacity Planning and Performance Tuesday April 7 th 3:00 – 4:15 IT108 - Best Practices for Data Protection, Recovery, and Availability You can also find me at one or more IT pro ask the experts panels and later at any pub serving good beer. Look forward to seeing you there! More info at http://www.sharepointbestpractices...

Body: I'm changing the template on my SharePoint powered blog to be more environmentally friendly. Your monitor uses less to no power to display black so the minute or two you spend here will require far less power, saving precious battery juice on your laptop and allowing for a few more miles out of Earth. I encourage you to do the same with your own sites. Category: Random Published: 3/23/2009 12:21 AM Read More...

Body: Just wanted to point out a pretty cool effort by Quest Software. Now there's a place for you to get answers about Quest tools, ask general SharePoint questions, and talk directly to the Quest SharePoint product team including SharePoint Joel and yours truly. Check out the facebook style updates on the homepage and the forums. http://SharePointForAll.com Category: Random Published: 2/26/2009 10:13 PM Read More...