Go Bucs!
Ohio State vs Michigan is cancelled
This year’s edition of the annual Ohio State-Michigan game has been cancelled. The Wolverines were on their team bus headed down to Columbus, but unfortunately they couldn’t get past Toledo. (But hey, neither could the Marines, so don’t feel bad, UM fans!) All kidding aside, the boys and I will be watching tomorrow, probably with a plate of boudin in front of us. Go Bucs! (oh yeah, then LSU plays, and then the Saints are on Monday night!)
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IEEE Spectrum Risks blog
If you use a computer– at work, at home, at school– you should be reading The Risk Factor, a blog on computer-related risks operated by the fine folks who bring us the IEEE Spectrum. There’s a ton of fascinating stuff there, like this and this. The Risk Factor is like a gateway drug, though. After reading it for a while, you’ll be ready for the hard stuff.
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test post
Ecto has a twitter plugin, but it doesn’t seem to be working.
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No Detroit bailout, kthxbai
Mitt Romney makes a very cogent argument against a bailout in today’s New York Times. Don’t get me wrong; I live in the heart of the Auto Belt, and I have many friends who work in the industry. I don’t want to see it disappear altogether. I have owned a series of American-made cars since I was old enough to start buying cars. By and large, they have been good to me (especially our minivans!)
As a taxpayer, though, I can’t stomach the thought of sending another $25 billion, or more, to Detroit just to see it ratholed in a useless quest to stem the bleeding. I see firsthand how many mistakes the upper-level management of the ex-Big Three have made, and I can’t imagine that just giving them more money is going to solve the problem. Bankruptcy, on the other hand, gives them a well-understood set of tools to attack some of the root causes of their current situation. The medicine tastes terrible, but the eventual cure is worth it.
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Comments broken, again
Apparently every time I upgrade MovableType, my comments break. Thanks to Josh and Devin for pointing this out. ETA for a fix: before week’s end, hopefully.
Update: still broken.
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Enterprise Content Management white papers
This has taken me shamefully long to post, but 3Sharp’s own EricaT has just had four white papers on enterprise content management published on Microsoft’s web site:
- Office SharePoint Server 2007 Document Management
- Office SharePoint Server 2007 Records Management
- Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management
- Office SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow
If you’re interested in using MOSS for ECM, you should definitely check these out.
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Internet Explorer Mobile 6
I can’t wait for this: Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows Mobile 6.1. This should be a huge improvement to the Windows Mobile browser. I am a bit curious about how Microsoft will distribute it. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it on my Treo without buying an entirely new device.
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A birthday rickroll
I got rickrolled for my birthday today.
I’m in Redmond for meetings with customers and our team. Our company tradition is that we bring in cake of some kind when people celebrate their birthdays; my birthday is tomorrow, and Jason Weiss (one of our QA team members) has his birthday today.
About 1:30p, everyone gathered in our break room, and Paul Flynn brought in a big ol’ chocolate cake. It was strangely rectangular, but the frosting made it look good. I was a bit skeptical when Paul said he’d baked it himself, but I took the proferred knife and tried to cut it. It was oddly crunchy when I cut it. Paul let me saw away at it for a few seconds, then removed the cardboard box that was covering the real cake… adorned with a picture of RIck Astley himself. At the same time, Tim started playing the original rickroll clip from YouTube.
This all came about because back in the spring I managed to rickroll nearly the entire company via a well-crafted e-mail. Apparently they collectively decided to get their revenge on me via cake, so I am happy to say that the cake was, in fact, not a lie.
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Exchange Connections fall 2008
This year, my attendance at Exchange Connections was shorter than usual– I arrived Tuesday afternoon, presented most of the day on Wednesday, and then had to head up to 3Sharp in Redmond for a day of meetings with customers and our new PR agency, Hardy Communications.
The flight from Detroit to Vegas was uneventful, unless you count the guy two rows behind me who was snoring like a Poulan. I was actually concerned for his health. I didn’t see any signs of the Delta takeover; the FAs were as friendly as they ever are on NWA. Unfortunately, just before boarding I discovered that I’d forgotten my headphones and my iPhone sync cable. Sadly, that meant I was forced to work for the entire flight! (Arlene sent the missing gear to me, so I was equipped before my flight to Seattle).
This was a two-laptop trip: I brought both my T61 running Windows Server 2008 and my MacBook Pro. The MBP gave me a solid 3.5 hours of fairly heavy activity. For the few minutes I was using the T61, Windows’ battery estimator gave me an estimated life of 2:21. That’s not great, but part of the problem is that I’ve only ever had the big IBM/Lenovo battery, not the smaller conformal one. I’ll have to do a more even comparison in the future. (Also: my Win2008 installation won’t let me hibernate, which is a big pain in the butt sometimes).
My first session on Exchange Online went well, including some cool demos. The questions I got were pretty good, though there were a few I couldn’t answer. (My favorite: will Exchange Online support the BlackBerry? Yeah, when pigs fly!)
PowerShell 101 was, as always, a blast. It’s such a fun presentation to give because I enjoy seeing people “get it” as they start to internalize all the stuff they can do with the Exchange Management Shell.
Apart from that, I didn’t see or do much. My room at THE Hotel smelled like smoke; I had a good lunch with my Windows IT Pro peeps at Border Grill, and now I’m heading to Seattle.
Update: I forgot to mention that the Society of Exploration Geophysicists was in town for their 78th annual convention. Fun crowd! The geophysicists tended to be well-dressed and very talkative, with lots of hallway groupings, and a surprising number of women.
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test iBlogger post
In my first attempt, I included a picture. That crashed my entire phone. This is attempt #2. Nothing fancy!
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