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… spend them by bringing in Dean Wells to teach you and/or your staff.
I must state up front that Dean is a good friend of mine but that just means I know how bright he is and how well he can present info. Don’t take my word for it though, go look at [...]

The conference is over, I am back home, not able to sleep. So I pulled out the old laptop so I could finish up the blog entry I started earlier in the week (Wed in fact) so I will cover Tue and Wed instead of just Tuesday. So here I sit in bed with the [...]

Some of you know directly or recognize that I am a fan of Robert A. Heinlein’s writing. He is considered by many to be one of the best Science Fiction writers out there but I don’t think most people realize that a lot of that is due to his social commentary that is weaved throughout [...]

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
-from Robert Heinlein’s “Time Enough for Love”

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently impose it.
- Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) American Aviator

Here it is Directory Experts Conference (DEC) day 3 and I am writing about DEC day 2. I could have written last night but instead tried to do a little work work and then sleep.
What do I have to say about DEC day 2? Well it is the “real” DEC day 1. DEC day 2 [...]

So here I am at the end of day one of the Directory Experts Conference. Today was about a “disaster recovery” live session which included several labs. My plan was to spend the day in bed until my hotel I was in Sat night kicked me out the door however the night before my friend [...]

AdFind has been updated. I call this the DEC Release for the Directory Experts Conference because my good friend Dean kept saying when working out presentation ideas, “It sure would be cool if AdFind could do this and this and that and this and maybe some of that and…”. I just kept writing his ideas [...]

AdQueueLoop has been updated to version 2. Lots of changes and bug fixes. I don’t expect this to excite many people because most people don’t have a clue what it is telling you anyway, but for those who do know and care, you will be excited by the CSV File output option and the “quieter” [...]

I got this email today, seems the American Family Association (AFA) [1] has their panties in a bunch because they allegedly spoke with Ford and Ford allegedly told the AFA that they wouldn’t fund the “homosexual” agenda any longer. Well guess what, Ford did continue to fund the agenda by sponsoring an episode of “Without [...]

ROFL!
Absolutely great.
I don’t expect that is the response Isaac Hayes was looking for and certainly the Scientologists won’t appreciate it (Chef being brainwashed by an elite group of Child Molesters LOL!!!). But the rest of us can have a good laugh.
I loved the eulogy Stan gave at the end of the show for [...]

Exchange Dev fixed a long running issue that causes 9548 errors on your Exchange Servers.
See blog entry here - http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2006/03/22/422799.aspx
What do I say about this? About damn time.
When I first encountered this back in around 2003 or so and it was actually causing issues on Exchange servers with hangs, etc and PSS explained [...]

I have been extremely busy lately and today I am trying to get caught up on some things, one of those things is news hence my previousl South Park post which is probably old news to many of you.
Something else I had no idea was going on is this. It is talks about possibly trying [...]

One of my sisters (the blonde one if you are curious) asked me to set up a guestbook for her website and so I looked on the POWWEB offerings to see what they had in their quick setup…
Well the first was AdvGuestbook, it didn’t install properly from the quick install so I went and [...]

I read this article with laughter and sadness at the same time.
On the laughing side, it is funny how upset people can get over a cartoon… Yes a cartoon. If your thoughts and beliefs can’t stand up to being poked at by someone, don’t get mad at the person(s) poking. Also anything having to do [...]

Well I was thinking, I need another tech blog entry up here so I looked through my list of drafts to see which one I could most quickly firm up. My drafts are things that I want to write about because someone asked a question or because I think it is cool or important or [...]

This is hands down some of the funniest stuff I have seen in ages. I actually had to break down and email the makers of the show to say how good it is. You laugh so hard you start crying as you realize how much of this is straight from things you have seen in [...]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=36099539665548298&q=microsoft+ipod
I wonder how MS Marketing took this…

I just happened to discover what I consider a bug in Windows Server 2003 SP1 Active Directory and ADAM SP1/R2.
I am sure what I am hitting was done on purpose but I don’t understand why and think it is a silly change and the fact that it breaks something in ADFIND just makes me [...]

One of the projects I am working on, this one with a good friend - stay tuned, requires some content management software that takes any/all sting out of web publishing process. Basically we were just looking for something to do content publishing that allowed us to set some security rules and user registration, etc, and [...]

Fred pinged me on my blog entry about Derek’s Tech Target article. He also commented on one of my other articles on grammar and general flow.
I fully welcome these comments and completely fall on my sword and admit that when I am racing through many of these blog articles they are done in a [...]

I was sitting here working on cleaning up ADFIND V01.31.00 and watching some shows that my MCE had captured for me and I started watching the finale of Battlestar Galactica… Wow wow wow wow. What an incredible show. Great story tellers. The last 40 minutes actually had me doing no work on ADFIND and all [...]

I seem to have developed a following for my less than technical entries on this blog, it seems I tend to get more email and other responses when I rant or complain about something than when I am posting pure tech. I think possibly it is because pure tech may bore people and they either [...]

In an interesting article I picked off of Google News
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/08/BUG8QHK6S01.DTL&type=business
it seems HP is being sued by Stockholders because they gave their last CEO a huge bonus for/after leaving of ~$42 million.
I don’t know about you, but it has always confused me why an exec who hurt a company gets any kind of bonus upon leaving. [...]

If you are using any joeware for your Directory Experts Conference presentation email me and let me know what you are doing. Especially if you are using ADFIND. That way if there is an update coming out soon you can take that into account for your presentation, you may find things easier for instance…
ADFIND [...]

Do you read the TechTarget emails? I look at them occasionally when something catches my eye, as of late the things that catch my eye end up being written by Derek Melber. Sadly, the articles usually are pretty bad. I say sadly because at one point, Derek was a Directory Services MVP. I am not [...]

As many of you know, I do a lot of Technical Reviewing of books and wrote the 3rd Edition update of O’Reilly Active Directory as well as wrote the Exchange chapter of the Windows Server Cookbook (which got mostly slipped into the Active Directory 3e book as well as the Active Directory Cookbook 2e) so [...]

I was contacted this afternoon by a gentleman who was trying to download adfind and kept getting an error message saying
Internet Explorer was not able to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found
Well due to recent issues with the ISP I really made sure it was working [...]

Fun test for you sci-fi junkies out there… Here are my results

You scored as Moya (Farscape). You are surrounded by muppets. But that is okay because they are your friends and have shown many times that they can be trusted. Now if only you could stop being bothered about wormholes.

Moya (Farscape)

94%

Serenity [...]

As some of you may have found, the joeware downloads, forums, and blog were not working for a majority of the day on Friday. It was down from ~11AM to about ~6PM EST with the forums being down until probably about ~9PM.
Basically what happened is that my ISP, www.powweb.com, had 24 PHP scripts running [...]