With four children growing up in the digital age, I should hardly be surprised at how fast kids pick up new technology. Just a couple of weeks ago, my eight year old son figured out he could look up pretty  much anything he wanted on Google. To my horror, his first independent Internet search string [...]

  I would consider myself a “casual” or “recreational” gamer but the truth is, I won’t start a game unless I know I’m going to have some upcoming free time. If I don’t like a game, I’ll usually find out in the first hour or so and probably never play that game again. If I [...]

Working on a VM guest with limited C drive capacity, I recently ran out of disk space. To look further into this, I used a wonderful free utility (published under the GNU General Public License) called WinDirStat which stands for Windows Directory Statistic. This tool (available here) does an excellent job at analyzing and revealing [...]

I often need to download operating systems and server applications from MSDN or Microsoft Licensing from which the files are invariably CD, or more commonly DVD ISOs. Also, I am usually installing the files remotely via RDP or on a Virtual Guest. As a result, burning CDs and DVDs is simply impractical, not to mention [...]