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June 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: My most popular blog post is about installing Windows 2008 from a USB thumb drive. Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and used the same instructions to do that upgrade. So the instructions for:
- Installing Vista from a USB Thumb Drive
- Installing Windows Server 2008 from a USB Thumb Drive
- Installing Windows 7 from a USB Thumb Drive
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Being a technologist all my life I’ve come to realize one thing: “to be good at what you do you can never stop learning”. (I also think to remain youthful at any age it’s important to never stop learning but that’s another conversation altogether.)
With that in mind you’re often confronted with a task that you don’t know the answer to. But if you know where to look for the answer chances are you find it quickly enough (yeah.. thank you Mr. Obvious). I’m doing some work with SQL Reporting and quite frankly my SQL query Kung Fu is weak. But there’s hundreds of books on the topic and available for me to review and here’s a few tips that will hopefully improve my SQL query Kung-Fu and become useful to you as well.
Tired of trying to find just the right wordpress theme? There’s millions of them to choose from afterall. Would love to create your own but have less artistic talent now than you did in Kindergarten with a box of busted chunks of crayolas? (You know what I’m talking about. First week of school you had brand new Crayolas by the second week they were all bits and pieces and nubs)
While at MIX, I learned about the Microsoft Translator. It’s a website widget you add on your site and allows your visitors to select their preferred language and then translates the page into that language. I had a wordpress plugin at one time that did this but quit using it (I don’t recall why, I think it was because I had to manually add it each time I changed the theme).
I’ve become a huge fan of twittering as I’ve been picking up a bunch of great tips on it. I follow Robert Bowling (fourzerotwo) on twitter (who was one of the devs on COD4 and I play a lot of COD these days) and he posted that he was installing tweet suite on his own blog so I wanted to try it out.
