Mind Circus

It seems Microsoft is still employing that pesky 8 year old.

So I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 the other night. Nothing’s really changed on the front end, but the new backend is great - sure it looks nice, but more importantly, it’s very intuitive and far easier to use. And the icing on the cake was that most of the plugins I use already support 2.5, which is nice.

I think I’m in lurve

To counter my earlier, tongue in cheek/bitchy post, I’d like to contribute something useful!

Computer World in Australia has produced a nice looking list, showing the “20 most useful Microsoft sites for IT professionals“.

Microsoft professionals have a lot to keep track of, and a lot of market noise to contend with. That’s why we’ve compiled this list of the 20 best places on the Web to help you find what you need. The list includes technology-specific sites, worthy bloggers and safe resources to help you pass your next Microsoft cert or training course. Plus we’ll reveal places for trustworthy free Microsoft software and the best sites to help you stay on top of the voluminous amount of news churned out by, and about, the folks in Redmond.

Read the full article at Computer World

Does anyone have any other sites they’d recommend to fellow IT Professionals?

You’d think so, judging from this Hotfix Request page.

Notice the wording in this section:

The word you’re looking for is: than, not then.

Come on guys, the difference between then and than is far more than a single letter.

How to slipstream Service Pack 3 into Microsoft Office Project 2003

These instructions apply to Project 2003 Standard Edition. To slipstream other versions, you’ll need to replace PRJSTDE.MSI with the name of the MSI for your Project Edition.

Steps

You’ll need a Volume Licence Key setup CD.

D:\setup.exe /a

Save to C:\project2003\

Download Project 2003 SP3

Extract its contents to C:\Project2003SP3\ with:

Project2003SP3-KB923622-FullFile-ENU.exe /Q /C /T:C:\Project2003SP3\

Perform slipstream with:

msiexec /p C:\Project2003SP3\PROJECTSP3.msp /a C:\Project2003\PRJSTDE.MSI SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb

Delete the C:\Project2003SP3\ folder as you no longer need it