I've always loved my WHS.  I've been using it since the first beta, but I don't mind admitting I'm not the most committed beta tester.  There was no way I was going to try restoring a backup to a machine that had nothing wrong with it using a beta product.  If one of my machines failed during the beta, sure no problem, but I don't go looking for trouble.  So in all the months I've been using the WHS I've never had to do a restore, until this weekend.

Steph's laptop randomly rebooted and then came up with a little message explaining the registry was corrupt.  No problem, I'll restore it!  Well the first restore didn't go as planned, in fact it bombed out with no message at all.  However I figured it was a hard drive consistency problem, so I tried to do a chkdsk which told me there were errors that couldn't be fixed.  So I bought a new hard drive, popped it in and tried the restore again (Note, I had to create a primary partition first which I could have done using Disk Management right in the restore process).  This time the restore took an hour and at the end of that hour the laptop was up and running like nothing had ever happened!   

I love it, I would have spent a couple days trying to fix the problem without blowing away the OS and then I would have given up on that, and then I would have spent some time trying to get all the files off the machine, then I would have to reinstall windows, then I would have to put all the files back on. The whole time Steph would be 'asking' when her computer was going to be fixed.

So why don't you have your own home server yet?!?  Don't know what a home server is?  Have more than 2 machines at home?  Ask me about it sometime and I'll talk your ear off.

We've been busy getting ready for our first Christmas, left is our first Christmas tree.  I won't lie, Steph did all the decorating, but I think I did an excellent job of supervising.

Been really busy at my new contract but with the time off over Christmas I'm hoping to work on a new WHS add-in that has long sat on the shelf.  I'll have even more time to work on it since my Xbox 360 decided to do a terrible impression of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (ie. The Red Ring of Death), which is more than a little upsetting.

As a ginger I've had to endure the typical stereotypes, abuse, ignorance, and out right bigotry.   However, I had no idea this type of stuff was still being taught in schools around the world!  Time to step into the new century Korea, gingers are people too!

What am I ranting about??  Well take a look at the two pictures below.  This comes from a Korean textbook used to teach English, the lesson is opposites.  On the left is 'pretty' next to a picture of a blond girl, and on the right... 'ugly' next to a picture of a ginger girl!

 Here are the pictures I have from our Blessing (Wedding #2), super big thanks to everyone that came, and super big thanks to everyone that came to both of our weddings :)

Brin's Pictures

John's Pictures

The dasBlog team has released a new .Net 2.0 medium trust version of dasBlog.  You can find an announcement of dasBlog 2.0 at Scott Hanselman's blog or at the dasBlog home page.  The upgrade is pretty smooth and painless, and there are a lot of great things coming down the pipe as well.