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Last weekend I ran across an episode of When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions and was... awestruck, completely and utterly dumbfounded... even as I (slowly) write this blog post I have to do so only during the commercials because the footage is incredible. I've seen plenty of old NASA footage... but some of this material is just... ...

With the recent public release the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 it is imperative that any users of Tab Manager take special care when upgrading to avoid being incessantly nagged. Problem Due to changes in the way the Console in Power Pack 1 loads tabs and the way I hid tabs from the pre-PP1 tab loader, some add-ins may ...

What's worse than hearing multiple voices in your head? Trying to speak with multiple voices. The time has come to split my blogging as I now find myself having two separate voices... Brendan Grant, Software Development Engineer on the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft... and Brendan Grant who also happens to be a Software Development ...

Yesterday a little known aniversery came and went with little notice in the blogsphere... largely because I was too busy to celebrate it... until now. What is this anniversary? Two years ago I began a weight loss campaign that has been fairly successful. On the morning I started I weighed 415.2, a year later I was down by 123.8 lbs to 291.4, ...

This morning I realized that one month ago yesterday (3/24) I arrived bright and early to building 43 on the Microsoft campus to begin NEO (New Employee Orientation) and to begin my career with Microsoft. What a month it's been. While all of the 24th and a good chunk of the 25th were spent in NEO, it was afterwards I got to join the team ...

After 4 long days on the road and over 1500 miles, yesterday afternoon I arrived here in Redmond, WA safe and sound (and exhausted) and after a brief bit of vegetation and unloading my vehicle of a number of things I made friends with the bed for the night. Come morning I decided I needed a few adventures in town so embarked on a quest for ...

Twas the night before moving day and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a tv... No... that doesn't sound right. No TV and no beer make Brendan something something. Tomorrow the packers and movers come to load up virtually everything I own into the back of a truck and drive it out to Washington for me. In preparation ...

I hate moving and it's why I've lived where I have for nearly 5 years now. With my upcoming move to Redmond I've spent a great deal of time going through stuff here as well (as at both parents house in Minneapolis) and deciding what to keep and what to throw away... now and then I'd find something I'd totally forgotten about ...

Even though Windows Home Server allows the creation of virtually unlimited shares... it only directly allows exposing of 3 of those shares via Windows Media Connect which enables other devices and PCs in the home to more easily access the content. What happens if a person wants to have two or more separate music or video shares that are all ...

... or Borg.Assimilate(Me) ... or Brendan.Drink(Drink.KoolAid); ... or Brendan.Soul.Sell(Microsoft) ... or Brendan.Employer.Name = "Microsoft"; At last the background checks are complete and now all that remains is the move and my first day... On March 24th I will be joining the Windows Home Server team (yes at Microsoft) as a ...