joeware - never stop exploring...

If you are being criticised by someone, if it’s true, fix your mistake. If it’s not, treat it as precaution and you will avoid in the future.
  - Chinese Proverb

Sales of HD DVD Players Plunge After Warner Move
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/technology/28disc.html?ref=business

I think tequila is the cure for hot spicy mouth the way its a cure for ugly, it just numbs it a little bit…
   - Kari Byron (love her!) of Mythbusters for Chili Pepper Spicy Mouth Cure episode

I didn’t dig into this but wanted to give a heads up that when I used Windows Update this evening to apply the latest patches to my main XP machine after the reboot it would no longer talk to the domain properly and hence unable to log into the machine with a domain ID. This [...]

Why is the Silverlight V1.0 install package coming down through Microsoft Update? Do any other companies get to send down IE plugins through Microsoft Update?
 
Just asking…
 
   joe

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
  - Dr. Suess
 
[thanks to my mom for sending this to me]

Thou art to me a delicious torment.– On Friendship Ralph Waldo

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
   -Andy Rooney

Just because you can’t figure out how to compromise a machine doesn’t mean someone else can’t.

…depends on your point of view. :o)
A chicken standing in front of a coyote sees fear and danger. A coyote sees lunch.

If you aren’t enjoying yourself with what you are doing, you have only yourself to blame.

This morning I took on Comcast again as described previously. I get through to security and they say yes there is an abuse ticket open for me but can’t really tell me anything about it, oh wait, I have a server listening… that’s what’s wrong. Not allowed to have a server because this is a residential [...]

Well this has been quite a day for me and Comcast… Three issues, all stupid. Only able to solve one, and only because I figured it out, Comcast was at a loss…
So first issue, friend of mine having issues with her Cable MODEM… Uh yeah, that’s not going to be good…. I pull up the [...]

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry and art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims.
    – [...]

The world is made up of two types of people         those who call the shots and                  those who dodge the bullets.

This laptop was shown at a “mobility” conference…
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/05/hp_20inch_hdx_dragon_laptop_re.html
 
I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel lugging a 20″ flat panel with a full keyboard and media center remote around is mobile. Its more like transportable like the first Compaq portables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq) which I can tell you from first hand experience were also not enjoyable [...]

One of my not so clever friends posted  a blog entry a while back about what she has done… I thought it was fun so I decided to do it as well. What I have done is bolded. What I would like to do someday is italicized.
 
01. Bought everyone in the bar a [...]

I am bit busy but I wanted to wish Happy New Year to everyone. Hopefully this year will be a step up from everything that has come before whether it was good or bad for each of you individually.
Everyone always wants to know what your New Year resolution is… I am not so much [...]