Month: March 2007

I get a lot of what book would you recommend about ____ questions, so I thought I’d start piecing together a list of books I recommend. I added a link at the top of the site called Recommend Books, or you can go directly to http://briandesmond.com/blog/pages/My-Recommended-Reading-List.aspx if you’re interested. I’m just going to add to this as I read things or see a book on the shelf somewhere that I totally forgot about. Feel free to add to the list via comments. Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it!

A few months ago I came across this shareware utility called Anagram. It’s a plug-in for Outlook that parses textual contact and appointment information into a new contact or appointment object. I really only use it for contacts, but the basic scenario is take the common email signature tons of people have with their name, email, phone number, address, etc at the bottom of every email. Out of the box if you want to convert that to a new Outlook contact, you create a new contact and then you copy and paste each field one at a time. With Anagram, … Continue reading Very Cool Outlook Addin

I finally am running Vista on my main laptop which I use whenever I’m on the road. One thing I almost immediately noticed is that if I open a a command prompt and try to use telnet, I get informed that ‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. This has been annoying me to no end for a couple of weeks now – telnet is one of the first tools I use to troubleshoot a problem … telnet server port to see if it’s even listening and I can connect. I figured … Continue reading Enabling the Telnet Client on Windows Vista