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Intellectual Property and You

About a week ago, after a very long day at work, I came home and just wanted to relax, eat, hang out and maybe do a little "work" on the computer. Unfortunately I received an email from a book author who had found out that the eBook publisher he was planning on using seemed to have a thing for "borrowing" artwork to be used as cover art. He had decided to match as many book covers to artists as possible and tracked me down in order to let me know that a painting of mine was being used on a book currently being sold on Amazon.com.

*sigh*

I am not a professional artist. I like snapping photos, drawing and playing around in Photoshop. People occasionally like what I do and buy prints or download copies to be used as background for various devices, but never in a million years did I think that I would have to worry about someone actually stealing something from me. The truth is that when listening to or reading various discussions on "intellectual property" …

Bake Me A Wish Review

For Valentine's Day I thought I'd order a cake for my wife. I'd heard of Bake Me A Wish through my favorite comic book podcast who they sponsor. Their tiramisu cake would be the perfect choice.

Since many of you may be hesitant to order a cake online or are curious about what to expect, here are some unboxing photos.

I was gratified to find this box on my doorstep on exactly the day I requested (February 13th). It seems to have seen some rougher-than-I'd-like treatment. Note that on every side you see the notice that the box contains a perishable item and arrows pointing out the correct box orientation.

Inside you will find a solid styrofoam inner-container.

Popping the lid off reveals a very chilly ice pack.

Removal of the ice pack reveals the cake box inside with a handy ribbon strung beneath the box to make it a simple task to life the box straight out of the cooler.

Et voilà!

The cake is well packaged within the box (and still quit chilled as you can see). However…

My SharePoint Workflow History Is History!

The other day I had a customer get in touch with me who is using a SharePoint document library with a basic, out-of-the-box approval workflow. The problem that they were having was that the approval status column was not displaying anything where previously it had displayed "Approved" with a handy link to the Workflow Status page. A page that shows a reasonably formatted Workflow History that they were using as proof for auditing purposes.

I'm not going to get into the discussion regarding whether or not this is appropriate or whether SharePoint auditing is the right answer. If you are interesting in a snapshot of that discussion, it has been pretty well covered here.

The reality is that we make these tools available to our customers and they use them (if we're lucky). I needed to figure out what was happening and what our options for resolving things for them were.

The issue stems from the "Workflow Auto Cleanup job" that is scheduled to run for each Share…

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