Category: Miscellaneous

  • Lessons learned from not trusting my gut

    It’s been an expensive couple of weeks for me. I love/hate “life lessons”. They hurt, but make me stronger if I learn from my mistakes. I’ve been wrapping up two different small projects and on both of these particular projects, I completely underestimated the amount of effort it would take me. I made several mistakes… (continue >)

  • 2022 Year in review

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    I started writing this post on December 31st, 2022, as I re-read last year’s post to see where my head was at then. I re-read every “New Year” post I’ve written here, all the way back to Jan 1, 2011. It’s fascinating to see the change(s) in mindset and priorities over the years. Ten years… (continue >)

  • 2021 year in review

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    It’s hard to believe it’s the start of another year. 2020 felt like it lasted forever while 2021 was a blur. I think 2021 was “2020 one” and 2022 is “2020 two”, which is what this pandemic feels like at the moment, that 2020 has never actually ended. Nearly two years into this pandemic people… (continue >)

  • Top 10 Blog Posts from 2021

    I didn’t do this for 2020, but I like to look back at what posts had the most views during the previous year to see what has staying power and what piqued other’s curiosity. Interestingly enough, not a single 2021 blog post made my top 10 list. That’s not too surprising to me since I… (continue >)

  • New Year’s Resolutions 2021

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    It’s that time again, a new calendar year has begun. This year “Happy New Year” has an entirely different meaning to most of us, after what can only reasonably be described as a train wreck of a year. I’m a day late in writing this post this year (even though I’m posting this as Jan… (continue >)

  • Thunderbolt dock problem? Try this.

    This post describes issues I had with my Thunderbolt dock where various ports were not working (Ethernet, Audio, USB) and how I resolved it. (continue >)

  • Owning up to your mistakes

    It’s been a while since I wrote a non-technical post, so I thought I would share a situation that happened to me earlier this week and how I dealt with it. At the risk of coming across as a complete moron to whoever reads this, when many would simply never mention it again, I am… (continue >)

  • New Year’s Resolutions 2020

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    It’s time to look back on the year 2019 and the last 10 years. I won’t say “the last decade” lest the mansplainers get their shorts in a knot about it technically not being the end of the decade. 😄 10 years ago, I was 4 months into my own consulting business. In 2019, I… (continue >)

  • Top 10 Blog Posts from 2019

    This is a look back at what posts had the most views during 2019. It’s the 3rd year I’ve done this and it is always interesting what old posts continue to be relevant (or at least “hit” via search). The first year I did this, only 4 posts from that year made the top 10,… (continue >)

  • Changing Password Managers

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    This post is my experience with changing Password Managers from LastPass to 1Password. (continue >)

  • Keeping up with the MVP firehose

    It’s January, which means we’re coming to the end of another contribution year for those of us Microsoft MVPs that are up for renewal on July 1st. By the end of March, we need to have submitted our contributions, and new this year, answered the four magic questions on the MVP site. This is the… (continue >)

  • New Year’s Resolutions 2019

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    Well, it’s that time of year again, and time to look back at 2018 and plan for the new year. This is the 9th year where I’ve been writing these resolution posts and it’s always fun to look back at what I thought the last year would bring. If I could describe 2018 in one… (continue >)

  • Top 10 Blog Posts from 2018

    I took a look at last year’s top 10 list and 4 “new” posts made it to the top 10 with the oldest post being from August 2011. This year, 7 posts made the list from 2018, and 3 repeats. It’s always interesting what topics or posts have staying power or something relevant to today’s… (continue >)

  • Connecting a 2nd PC as a second monitor

    Today’s #TipTuesday is yet another non-Dynamics GP post… I’m on a bit of a roll of finding oddball new things that are worth sharing. I’ll get back to more GP content soon, I promise! Update: this was originally written for Windows 10. Background In a previous post, I had written about some health issues my… (continue >)

  • Two Factor Authentication, part 2

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    Today’s #TipTuesday is a continuation of last week’s first post on Two Factor Authentication, 2FA for short. Today I am not getting into examples, as I found an interesting article last week after posting my first blog, that illustrates some of why 2FA and password managers are important. Instead of trying to document what already… (continue >)

  • Two Factor Authentication, part 1

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    Today’s #TipTuesday is a topic that likely needs multiple posts to handle it properly. As I write this, it’s already long before I even get into examples and “how to” on common sites so this will be a mini-series in my #TipTuesday series (a series within a series?!). Long story short: with all of the… (continue >)

  • Surface Go – First Impressions

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    TL;DR summary: I like it! I have had the Surface Go for just over 1 week now. I had been interested in it since it came out and did a lot of research on my recent trip to Fargo comparing US prices vs. CAD prices and comparing the “unique” build configuration that Costco was selling… (continue >)

  • Duplicate payments & internal controls

    This post doesn’t have anything to do with Dynamics GP specifically, but more about business processes, internal controls or lack thereof and a fun “Twitter Moment” earlier today. Late last week, Steve Endow, fellow Microsoft MVP, independent technical consultant, and ISV posted a tweet, and it’s not the first time I’ve seen something like this… (continue >)

  • Remote Desktop & Multiple Monitors

    This #TipTuesday is about Remote Desktop Connection and using multiple monitors. (continue >)

  • MVP emails gone mad!

    At the end of April, I thought I would experiment with something. I kept track of nearly every email that I received as a part of the MVP program for the entire month of May. I deleted nothing. However, some emails such as calendar invites are auto-deleted in Outlook once I accepted or declined the… (continue >)

  • Top 10 Blog Posts from 2017

    I started this a year ago, after finally having a full year + of Google Analytics tracking on my site. This year, I moved my blog in early November to this new domain and website but I was smart enough to remember to turn on the Analytics from the beginning. What do they say about… (continue >)

  • Curious about presenting?

    Following up on the GPUG Summit last week, I thought it would be timely to write a blog to encourage others to get involved in presenting in the future! Organizers are always looking for more people to fill presentation time slots. Have you attended Summit or a local GPUG chapter meeting, or even a webinar… (continue >)

  • My First Year as an MVP, part 2

    This is a continuation of Part 1 of my blog… all written on the same day but broken up into two parts due to the length! NDA, Yammer and PGI, oh my! My first inclination as a new MVP was to sign up for as much of the experience as I could. Others warned me… (continue >)

  • My First Year as an MVP, part 1

    One year ago, I was notified via email of my first Microsoft MVP Award. It was a pretty surreal moment! I captured some of my thoughts and emotions in a blog post last year. Now that a year has gone by, very quickly I might add, it’s time to look back at my first year… (continue >)

  • Women in Tech Week 2017 & Female MVPs

    February 27 to March 3, 2017, is Women in Technology Week! Next Wednesday is International Women’s Day (Wednesday, March 8, 2017), which, according to the official website, is “a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women”. I’ll be honest, I didn’t realize that it was Women in Tech Week this week until my… (continue >)