Omar Shahine's WebLogThe content of this blog is a subset of the posts I make to my personal blog http://www.shahine.com/omar/.Vacation in progress- April 29, 2005 If you are trying to reach me over the next week, I will be unavailable. Many have asked me why I'm on vacation so much these past few weeks. Well, my wife has been in Oahu for the past 9 weeks doing a rotation at Kaiser Permanente. One of the things that a lot of residency programs do is "farm you out" so that you can get surgical and other experiences at other hospitals. Why Oahu It's a long story, but I've been without a wife for the past 9 weeks and have been attempting to visit her as.http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/04/29/413542.aspx I'm not alone with my Comcast DVR woes- April 27, 2005 I'm not the only one who thinks the Comcast DVR with TV Guide software is buggy. I should call Comcast and ask for a refund. That will surely get them to notice the issues. Money talks...http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/04/26/412392.aspx Fixing Outlook Red "X" Problem- April 26, 2005 Every few months, Outlook 2003 will get into a situation where it will no longer render images in the preview pane or the message window. If you reply to the message, then you will see the image. Perplexed by the problem, I would take the brute force "Detect and Repair" solution but that isn't always desirable as it resets all the Outlook settings and takes a while. Months ago, some one posted to an internal DL that the problem can be fixed by deleting the Outlook Temporary Cache folder. Since..http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/04/26/412033.aspx Interesting things Jimmy did see- April 26, 2005 My good buddy, Jimmy (a.k.a. JimmyG) who no longer works for MS, spends all day taking spy photos of interesting things in Dubai, U.A.E. He happend to grab a pic of a very rare Mercedes G Class, and Microsoft's CEO walking with the Crown Prince of Dubai.http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/04/26/412026.aspx New VP of HR for Microsoft- April 26, 2005 Lisa Brummel was just named Vice President of Human Resources at Microsoft. Previous to this role Lisa was Corporate Vice President of the Home and Retail division, which is where the Mac Business Unit has been located for the past few years (before that, MacBU was in MSN for a few brief months, and before that in Business and Productivity Group or BPG). What I found more interesting is that the mention that Ken DiPietro, the former VP of HR, was replaced is in the middle of the press.http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/04/25/412011.aspx Photoshop CS2- April 26, 2005 First of all, a big shout out to Adobe for creating an awesome upgrade for Digital Camera owners. I still don't understand why you insist on installing Adobe ImageReady when I never use it and curse it when I accidentally double click a PNG and watch it take forever to load. However, you fixed one of the biggest problems for me. Changes to Orientation of RAW files were never persisted to the XMP MetaData files, but thankfully you now write the...http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/04/26/411980.aspx |