Truer Words Were Never Spoken

"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty..." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Apparently, Teddy worked for the System Center Operations Manager application development team.

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Hiding in Plain Sight

Which Post-It note contains the correct password?

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Seen Around Town

I came across this license plate here in Pacifica and it gave me a chuckle. Fix on, brother.

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Windows Server 2008 SP1

You know all those IT guys who won't deploy a new technology until the first service pack is released? Well, it looks like the Microsoft marketing team has figured out a way to boost early deployments by skipping the RTM release entirely and going straight to Windows Server 2008 SP1.

I filed a bug report on this when RC1 was released. That was when Microsoft merged the Windows Server 2008 codebase with Windows Vista SP1. It's been that way in every build since then, including the latest pre-RTM build.

Bug or clever marketing scheme? You decide.

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Whiteboard Technical Diagram

I seem to be drawing the diagram above more often lately....

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Avast, me hearties!

September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Today be a day to toss out that scurvey bilge water ye call coffee and grab a bottle of me best rum. Yo, ho, ho!

If talkin' like a pirate be not easy for ye, ye best sail over to this website to learn how. Ye don't want to be caught talkin' like a land lubber today! Properly warned ye be, says aye.

Lots of blargh!

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So when it catches fire, do you get caramel?

Sony has developed a battery that runs on sugar. Sweet!

Read about it here: https://webmail.scif.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/sonys-achieves-worlds-highest-output-from-sugar-battery/

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Just in case you're wondering...

$4075.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth.

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Now *THIS* is Funny!

You've all seen the viral video of Microsoft's Surface, right? Well check this out...

http://www.flixxy.com/microsoft-surface-computing-spoof.htm

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I admire her laziness...

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Today in History

On this date in 1920, the US Postal Service rules children may not be sent via parcel post. Thought you'd like to know.

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Being a Cursor is Hard Work

So you think it's easy being a mouse cursor? Go to http://www.1-click.jp/ and move your cursor over the super magnifying dot to see what's really going on inside your computer...

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That's better than some hybrids!

A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles per year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer per year. That means, on average, Americans get 41 miles per gallon.

 

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