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As of today Stronico is sponsoring one of my earlier projects, JargonDatabase.com. This is my first step in grassroots marketing.

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First Microsoft discontinues Office Accounting 2009 a mere four months after I install it and spend 40 hours trying to get it working over the network with XP. Then I make the move to QuickBooks due to this press release, and discover that their oh so magnificent data conversion tool will not work with either Vista 64 bit or Windows 7 64 bit. I now have to wrangle one of the old computers from the closets, do a clean install of 32 bit vista on that, install both Quickbooks and Office Accounting on that computer, convert that over on there, and then move the Quickbooks file to one of the two 64 bit computers I have here in the house. Such joy. No wonder I hate accounting.

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In a previous post I detailed the simple procedure of leaving a domain and joining a workgroup in Vista. The catch is…

The Problem: When you leave the domain, the user profile is basically destroyed and a crippled version is put in it’s place. Very little documentation exists on how to prevent this, and the market has not supplied many programs to help either. Copying files and folders did not work for me. I tried both Windows Easy Transfer and the User State Migration Tool from Microsoft, to no avail. Curiously, none of my knowledgeable tech friends knew of an easy way to do this.

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This is another one of those non-Silverlight problems, but since it created such a massive time sink I thought I would blog about it.

The Problem: You want to leave a domain for whatever reason (in my case, I wasn’t using the server for anything) and join a workgroup.

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I was perusing my Google Analytics reports and did some checking on came across some sub optimal page structure.

The Problem: Blogger (my blogging platform of choice) sets page titles in reverse. More specifically Blogger will set the title of a post as “Stronico Contact Management – How to fix browser size problem in Silverlight” – which is not as SEO friendly as what I thought it did, which would be “How to fix browser size problem in Silverlight – Stronico”. The former has more words, and quite repetitive.

The Cause: Blogger is just set up that way

The Solution: I did some Google work and came across this post on SEO Book (Thanks!) Basically Blogger has a set of server tags it uses when publishing a blog to an outside server. For whatever reason Blogger sets the page title in an odd order. To fix the problem add in this code in the header section of the Blogger Template

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I recently finished Create Your Own Economy by Tyler Cowen and loved it. I found it to be an insightful treatise on the Autistic Spectrum and it raised many thoughts which are still bouncing around my head.

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As Lady Stronico (Staci) continues her struggle with T-Mobile a valuable lesson was learned. The T-mobile (so far, 100% unhelpful) staff will try to shuffle you off into a convenient side room to call headquarters, with the assurance that calling headquarters via their phone and a special number will expedite solving the problem. This is not the case. Sit down and make them fix it. We have tried both and all calling headquarters did was waste an hour.

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I’m not sure that this really qualifies as a technical problem, but it was a problem I had.

The Problem: Any one of the many you are likely to have with T-Mobile -in my case it was a non-working phone, and no good options of upgrading.

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