joeware - never stop exploring...

When I awake in the morning I listen to those I love, especially to things they don’t say.    -Zen saying

There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want to do.

Exploring the edges of the known universe by popular demand.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
  - Paul Valery

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering…

Don’t give concrete answers for incomplete questions.

Hey y’all, watch this.

When it comes to managing a site with hundreds or thousands of machines, command-line scriptable tools always beat a fancy GUI.
    - Microsoft

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE
1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.2. Memorize your favorite poem.3. Don’t believe all you hear.4. Don’t spend all you have.5. Don’t sleep all you want.6. When you say, “I love you”, mean it.7. When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.8. Be engaged [...]

This officer should go far….. and the sooner he starts, the better.
  - excerpt from employee performance reports of Royal Navy

One test is worth a thousand opinions.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  - Einstein

This news item just in from Texas…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A scientist from Texas A&M University has invented a bra that keeps a woman’s breasts from jiggling and bouncing when she walks.
At a news conference announcing the invention, the scientist was taken outside where a large group of cowboys beat the shit out of him.

Do not go quietly into the night…Rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light…- Dylan Thomas

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.But, in practice, there is…

Handy blog article for troubleshooting services provided by SVCHOST.
http://blogs.technet.com/ganand/archive/2007/12/23/how-to-isolate-a-service-in-its-own-scvhost-exe.aspx
It also links to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056
 
Basically the idea is that some service executables have multiple services in them and they share a process when they start. There could be times you don’t want that to happen with SVCHOST because there is such a large number of arbitrary services [...]

Now this… …this is forbidden love…
http://www.bockscar.de/blog/index.php?/archives/625-This………does-not-happen-often.html

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
  - Heinlein

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
  - [...]

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from [...]

All men are created unequal.
  - Heinlein

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
  -Heinlein

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.
  - Heinlein

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face [...]

When in danger or in doubt… Run in Circles, Scream, and Shout!
   - Heinlein

Dude what’s with all the quotes?
I am going through old email and I used to put quotes as signatures on the bottom of the notes so as I hit a new sig I post the quote as I had them on my emails as signatures because I liked them so much. This way I don’t [...]

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
  - Norman Cousins

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
  - Norman Cousins

Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.
   -Yeats

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.     -Goya

There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity.
- Aristotle

GEORGE CARLIN POST 9-11 (His wife recently died…)
Isn’t it amazing that George Carlin - gross and mouthy comedian of the 70’s and 80’s - could write something so very eloquent …and so very appropriate post 9-11.
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, [...]

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Businesses don’t succeed or fail because of the actions of the “corporate entity.” Businesses succeed or fail because the individuals with influence either do the right things or they do not.

I was catching up on some Smallvilles during breakfast this morning and the episode I watched had some amazing music. Now Smallville *usually* has great music which is one of the reasons I like the show but this music was outstanding and oddly it was something I had never heard even a little bit before. [...]

It doesn’t look that deep…

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
    - Mark Twain

That is some ugly looking code, to be sure. As written, the function really doesn’t do anything except reliably leak memory.
- Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]

Temper your emotions with logic…
…but listen to your heart.
       - I have no clue who said this but I love it

Happy birthday little buddy, I miss you.

So I spoke a little too early on my last blog post about my new Western Digital MyBook World Edition.
I ran into some huge issues with it, I haven’t gone looking for a firmware update yet but that is my next step. However, the issue I found shouldn’t be in any version of the product [...]

So I am setting up my new Terabyte MyBook from Western Digital….
Complaints so far
1. The little getting started leaflet basically just says install the CD and use our software…
My problem with that is I hate installing software on my PC that I don’t really want and don’t want that software. So I check [...]

“The secret to a good relationship is not compromise. It is to do what makes you happy regardless of the consequences and then find a mate who finds joy in your happiness.”
  - probably misquoted from some random TV show

I have had the opportunity the last couple of months to speak to two different psychics. I have to say it is an interesting thing to do just from a people watching/studying framework.
One part of me believes that the really good psychics are simply very good at picking up body signals and clues we [...]

Don’t forget to set yourself up with a cool prompt then… Personally I like seeing the time and date stamp. You can do that by setting your prompt to be
$D $T$_$P$G
That ends up looking like
Thu 12/13/2007 23:18:23.03C:\temp\test>

That has helped me track things down more than once. I highly recommend it along with setting the screen [...]

I was in Sam’s Club this evening buying some supplies for the month and found a heck of a deal in the computer area. Well a couple, first they had 320GB SATA Western Digital Drives for $49.99. I thought that was pretty darn good. But my bays are all full w/ 500GB drives.
The second better [...]

My sister who unfortunately lives in California sent this to me…
 
You know you’re from California if:
1. Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.2. You make over $300,000 and still can’t afford a house.3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.4. Your child’s 3rd-grade [...]

How can you diagnose someone with an obsessive compulsive disorder, then act like I have a choice about barging in here?
    - Melvin in As Good As It Gets

I was poking around the DEC2008 Web site looking for something and happened to run across one of those little advertising banners you always ignore[1]. It actually caught my attention because of a specific word combination that always catches my attention and cracked me up… It is below. Note that this is an animated GIF, you [...]

There was a little fallout over a previous blog entry where I casually mentioned that I may not be attending DEC in March 2008.  
After looking over all of my priorities for the next year, receiving feedback from several folks, really thinking hard about things, and finally actually chatting on the phone with Dean and others I realized that DEC [...]