http://blog.nprignano.com mostly talking to myself here Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:24:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you add an IMAP account to Outlook 2007, you add a second account next to Personal Folders.  While there is, unfortunately, no way to replace the Personal Folders with this IMAP account, you can configure Outlook to start in the IMAP account's Inbox as opposed to the Personal Folders ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-10/how-to-start-outlook-2007-in-imap-inbox Government is better at allocating limited resources than private corporations. FREE MARKET THEORY, while very effective at allocating private goods and services, was never intended to be applied in the public sector. The United States of America is arguably the greatest example of the privatized economic model, in which ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-09/privatization-is-not-foolproof I got bored tonight and decided to try my hand at modifying a simple but noticeable WordPress plugin. I made a copy of the Hello Dolly plugin and changed the lyrics from those of "Hello, Dolly" by Luis Armstrong to those of "Guilty Conscience" by Dr. Dre and Eminem ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-07/guilty-conscience-plugin Gasoline prices are set by a willing buyer and a willing seller, aka supply and demand. The simple definition: as demand increases, supplies fall, and the price for the available resources goes up. The U.S. government cannot directly control the price of a global commodity like gasoline any more than ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-07/gas-tax-holiday Today, I finally (after nearly two years of trying) reached the 50,000 point mark in Citrix Topic Area on Expert-Exchange.  This adds a Citrix Master certification to my arsenal, along with my SharePoint and Networking Master certifications, as well as my FrontPage Guru certification.  Obviously, I am not as proud ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-04/finally This new job I have taken has immersed me in the illustrious world of IBM technology.  Before this position, I have always been a strictly Microsoft guy (in terms of workplace software).  With IBM comes Lotus Notes - by far IBM's most widespread Enterprise software. Yesterday I was sent up to ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-04/lotus-notes-and-the-scroll-lock-key Don't get me twisted - I am all for the idea of improving something.  What I do take offense to is when a change is made and things break.  It wouldn't even bother me so much that something was changed and not fully tested before its release, if it werent ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-04/as-the-web-changes I solved an annoying issue that one of my users was having today at work, and thought I'd put the fix up here for ayone else who comes across this (or, in the event that I need to fix this again in a week, I know where to find it). The ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-04/active-desktop-recovery-mode WordPress 2.5 was released yesterday.  I spent all day backing up my sites today and upgrading my base install to the new version.  I was already running version 2.4-bleeding (the development version), but there were a couple of minor tweaks in the release that improved the admin interface, so I ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-03/wordpress-2-5 That's right - it has been only a few weeks of tinkering with my site I have come to the realization that I bet on the wrong horse. As my friend Dan kindly reminded me tonight, this happens often. Admittedly, I do get excited about a new method ... http://blog.nprignano.com/2008-02/goodbye-zenphoto-hellowordpress