July 4, 2011 – I’m honored to receive the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! Here’s a little about the award and the MVP program.

June 9 – The day after the White Sox finished a 3-game series against the Mariners, I discovered something I have in common with Ichiro. As far as words go, this article’s pretty short, but the numbers speak volumes.

May 20, 2011 — From Springfield (IL), on a week of milestones, both personal and professional.

Feb. 26, 2011 – Here’s a bit of news that definitely belongs in my personal “good news on a dreary late February Chicago afternoon” category: the Trick Bag made the Top 5 Dynamics CRM Blogs list at www.MSDynamicsWorld.com.

Feb. 17, 2011 — Watson may know a lot about movies and capitals and books, but I bet it doesn’t know useful stuff like what Ctrl+Shift+7 does in the Dynamics CRM 2011 web client. Rise of the machines, indeed!

December 13, 2010 — One of the best things about working with a company is being surrounded by people with different skill sets you can learn from. For example, some of my colleagues at Magenium can absolutely crush .NET code, and others can optimize and upgrade infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. Tom LaMantia is a man of many skills…I’m just not 100% sure which of them are exhibited in his creation of my digital presence. Enjoy!

Oct. 12, 2010 – Never thought I’d be ditching my iPhone, least of all for something running on a Google OS. Then there’s the new phone number with the 666 prefix. Not that I’d sell my soul just to have my calls not drop, but it will definitely take some of the sting out of the switch.

May 13, 2010 – My no-good, dirty-rotten lousy day that ended up good.

March 13, 2010 – Even I can’t come up with a Dynamics CRM tie-in for this article…but I wanted my Mom to have a reason to go to my blog apart from the fact that I’m her son. So, Mom: I hope you enjoy these pictures I took during Bridget’s and my walk on Second Beach last summer.

It must have been in 1990 I was in a record store in Ballard, WA, asked the clerk what he thought of this album “Facelift” by some band called “Alice in Chains”. I’d read about it in a review in the NY Times of three albums from Seattle bands Alice, Soundgarden, and I’m not sure [...]