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STOP!
Do you know what you are doing? Are you rebuilding in the old image or are you trying to make it better?
If the former, why bother? Just give everyone swimming lessons and hope for the best the next time.
If the latter, how are you trying to accomplish that?
I recommend that New Orleans and the Federal [...]

Y’all haven’t noticed it but out of the blue starting Saturday my blog has been getting blasted by spam. Usually I don’t have a problem with spam because the list of black listed words I have is extensive and unforgiving and any comment that has one of those words gets dropped with no notification to anyone; [...]

I have updated the MemberOf utility.
This is just a quickie update as I received requests from like three people in less than a week that were for similar requests I have gotten over the years. I want to rewrite this from scratch again to take advantage of some stuff that I have learned to make it [...]

I could do a lot more shocking things. I’ve just always asserted myself as a villain because the villain in any walk of life is the person who refuses to follow blindly and always wants to question things. For me, art is supposed to be a question mark. So I’m merely asking questions to the [...]

If you live in a the US, happy Memorial day, if you live in one of the other countries that chose to also set this day as a national or bank holiday happy whatever holiday it is for you (such as Spring Bank Holiday).
For the US this holiday is to celebrate the folks who have [...]

This should be well known at this point but doesn’t appear to be as I continue to see questions and problems around this….
There are multiple formats of a userid that can be used for authentication depending on the type of authentication.
For most authentications you can use either the NT format which is Domain\SAMAccountName or the user principal [...]

Angelina had her baby, congrats to her and Brad.
Now that is all I need to know, I don’t need photos, I don’t need to know the babies weight nor height nor hair color or anything else. Neither does anyone else. If the family wants to announce that stuff great, in the meanwhile I hope all [...]

I’ll take one of these when produced thanks…
 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a5w0Bet0kOE4&refer=canada
 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188500744

That’s gold Jerry, GOLD!  
 
Carlos Mencia rocks.    
 
 

Congratulations to Taylor Hicks.
I am shocked that he won but that shock started when Chris and Kim got voted off as I really didn’t expect that to happen. Once it happened it became “anybody’s game” between Kat and Taylor. Kat kind of choked up a little the last few weeks and Taylor just kept charging [...]

The AFA still makes me laugh. Keep going Ford… You would think that a vote 95% against the AFA would send them a message? Even if most of the shares voted were Ford family owned… I.E. AFA, it isn’t your company, get your nose out of its business. Don’t like their policies, don’t buy their stock, [...]

Get over it.
 

I have been promising to do this for over a year now… share the funniest email that I have personally ever received from someone I didn’t know. Don’t get me wrong, I get a lot of really funny email from friends, they all know how much I love to laugh. This is so funny because [...]

It seems that a lot of people with no actual technical ability want to be in the computer industry because that is where they feel they can make money. In general lots of training companies help enforce this by telling people they can get them certified after a week or a month’s worth of classes.
You [...]

Latest email from the AFA…
Hahaha. Go Jessica!
 
May 19, 2006
Oregon student newspaper runs pictures of Jesus as a homosexual. It is time to speak out!
Dear Joe,
The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) has refused to apologize for an obscene anti-Christian assault in the campus newspaper Insurgent.The March edition of the Insurgent ran one of [...]

…but I thought this was funny…
 
http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/peta_killed_for_your_coat.html
 

Steve is a bright guy… Listen to him.
http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2006/05/15/598260.aspx
  
     joe

I realized my current main desktop machine is now 30 months old and while it still is decent I would like to upgrade it. I have had a terrible time with Windows Rot as of late because the machine hasn’t been reloaded since I first set it up… A new record for me, normally my machines [...]

Even road side signs need real security…
http://www.zug.com/gab/index.cgi?func=view_thread&sort=active&head=1&thread_id=64475
 

Yes, any frequent reader knows I am sort of a reality TV buff, well at least I like most of the shows. I didn’t watch Amazing Race this year, last year’s just made me tell my media center to ignore it. Also I didn’t watch Surreal Life until just recently when for some reason I found it interesting. [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to Mom’s around the world (or at least in any countries that celebrate Mum’s day today).
In particular Happy Mother’s day to my Mom and my Grandmom and sister (the one with kids) and all my brother’s wives.

I {love} my media center. It changed how I watched TV, I don’t watch live TV anymore. Ever. It is amazing how it gets the shows I want and how I can zip through the commercials and pretty much just watch TV the way I want. Sure I have some complaints like it encodes files [...]

One of these songs is metal, one is hard rock. Which is which?

Song 1
She was a fast machine,
She kept her motor clean,
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen,
She had sightless eyes,
Telling me no lies,
Knockin’ me out with those American thighs,
Taking more than her share,
Had me fighting for air,
She told me to come, [...]

 

 
 VH-1 had a special on called the 40 Least Metal Moments, it went off on various things that folks declared as things that did not reflect well on the Heavy Metal or actually more accurately for most of the bands the hard rock[1] music world. A lot of this show focused on “the Ball”, which is [...]

The last item in the magazine that really caught my attention was the {END BRACKET} piece. That is usually pretty good and why often I will be reading a magazine I will flip to the last page to determine if I want to keep on reading. Often it is sort of a recap of everything [...]

Ok on to the next article… It was written by Jeffrey Richter. If you don’t know who that is, you are obviously not someone who has taken Windows programming seriously. That is fine if you don’t consider yourself a programmer, otherwise, please go code for the GNU folks; you shouldn’t be near Windows.
In the article [...]

The first article is about moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005. I thought, this should be a good article… I don’t actually use either IDE (Borland guy here…) but it is good to see what others say about them. I am reading away and then got a trifle perturbed…
There was a comment [...]

I just recently received the latest MSDN Magazine, June 2006. I like MSDN Mag, it is a cool mag. It tends to have at least one interesting article and keeps me fairly up to date with some things other folks are thinking or doing. I like Dr. Dobbs better because it seems more realistic, but [...]

What the heck does that mean?
Well there is this style of restaurants becoming fairly popular in the US, at least in the Michigan area called Mongolian Barbeques. Basically it is where you select various meats, veggies, noodles, etc and throw them in a bowl, select some oils, sauces and spices and then some crazy kid [...]