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If a cow laughed, would she spew milk out of her nose?

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use?  toothpicks?

 If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?

Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?  

Well holy crikey…
A wicked awesome great friend of mine grabbed one of these new $5 bills for me and I thought I would test the part about not being able to photocopy it by trying to scan it. I used my newish Cannon CanoScan 8800F with the MP Navigator EX software both with and without [...]

http://www.shopping.hp.com/series/category/notebooks/dv2800tae_series/3/computer_store?jumpid=in_r329_personalization/browse1/SDP_SDP

http://blog.cardomain.com/blog/2008/03/ford-explorer-g.html
This is about an Explorer that runs off of two hydraulic motors… I always wondered WHY we don’t have cars that run off of hydraulics after seeing tractors and other heavy machinery that run off of hydraulics and do amazing things. Admittedly I wouldn’t want hydraulics in my Mustang, I like the rumble of the [...]

This is a pretty cool idea…
 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bb896640.aspx

Get your attention?
I hope so, I have been waiting a while to write this entry because I wanted to get in my head what I wanted to say because it is important, you could say it is almost a new personal mission I am on now.
If you stop reading this, stop reading after this very [...]

I ran into the following quoted article and clipped it off to share with my blog friends. I think it is a great article and aligns with a couple of the other quotes I have posted recently with the general flavor of your life is what you perceive it to be.
I know a lot [...]

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
   - Albert Einstein

So the evals for the presentations for DEC 2008 are now coming out. Dean pinged me about what we got because no one else has sent it to me yet… I guess that is what I get for having my name spelled in all lowercase and being the second name in the title “Legend of [...]

I don’t use it, don’t really intend to use it unless absolutely forced kicking and screaming to. Will not write a provider for AdFind nor AdMod nor any of my tools for it.
 
     love joe

Well I decided I would be a responsible OID holder and registered the OID that Microsoft gave to me several years ago…
http://www.oid-info.com/get/1.2.840.113556.1.8000.1420
 
Note that Microsoft no longer gives out OIDs like that. All done. They decided they didn’t want to be in that business and there were data privacy issues. So now they have a script [...]

I had someone ping me about replacing the target address on a bunch of contacts in a given OU with adfind/admod. This is actually a great use of those utilities and why I added the cool -adcsv functionality in… This used to be something that you had to script, no choice, but not now…
So the [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgFnMjymXI0
I am not a huge fan of Mariah but the video is funny and I like the silver dress.
Oh I was asked about the reference at the end… 802.11N is a draft specification for wireless networking. Basically Mariah is asking if the geek guy (who is the guy from Third Rock and I think [...]

One of the top things I get “help me joda!” emails about is people trying to run my utilities and running into issues with strings with spaces and other special characters. These strings are handled in special ways by the command interpreter and when people think my programs are screwing up, it is actually just that [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
 
And how to get around it in Photoshop…
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/05/03/dekepod.html

The new US $5 bill…
Allegedly the small yellow circles are in a special pattern that will tell digital copy software not to copy the money… You will just get a black image.
http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2008/02/New-Five?TID=st092007ab
 
With all the redesign work on the money, I wonder why we haven’t done like some other countries and made the money more usable [...]

Crap, this sat in my drafts for a few days… I need to stop using multiple PCs…
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/03/arthur_c_clarke

;o)  - Happy Easter
 

One of the books I am currently reading is Family First by Dr. Phil. I don’t have children but I think it is a good book anyway. I have lots of nieces and nephews and friends with kids and maybe at some point I will have one or more as well but I think it [...]

 
LOL

Just found out the Dev for the Time Service at MSFT has a blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/w32time/

This guy is good…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZW2aMG0-MM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPNSfoikPDU&feature=related

Besides the typos / spelling issues I found this article rather an interesting point of view.
 
http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2007/03/long-con.html

From: xxx xxxx Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:01 PMTo: joe@joeware.netSubject: You sir, are a genius
You just made my life a whole lot easier, and here I was struggling to get dsquery and dsget to work.  I don’t know you, but I love you right now. 

I’m gonna bitchslap every one of you so hard, that your unborn children will come out well behaved.
- Ed DeLine (Las Vegas TV Show)

 
I wish the TA’s could have an animated GIF logo like this on their hoods, it would rock…  
I found this Screamin’ Chicken here –> http://www.marshu.com/ws6-pontiac-firebird-animation-screaming-chicken-logo.php
 
And for those who have to have everything TA… Here is a Screamin’ Chicken Logo Gold Money Clip for $15.99
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PONTIAC-FIREBIRD-SCREAMIN-CHICKEN-LOGO-GOLD-MONEY-CLIP_W0QQitemZ380002188127QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item380002188127&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

Idus Martiae
 
Kai su, teknon?

Billy Joe and Betty-Sue get married and Billy Joe whisks her away to his daddy’s hunting cabin in the woods for a romantic ‘nature honeymoon’.
He carries her across the threshold and they get into bed, when Betty-Sue whispers in his ear,
‘Billy Joe, be gentle, I air’ never been with a man [...]

A guy named Joe finds himself in dire trouble. His business has gone bust and he’s in serious financial trouble. He’s so desperate that he decides to ask God for help.
He begins to pray… “God, please help me. I’ve lost my business and if I don’t get some money, I’m going to lose my [...]

Just to share my pain…
Work email inbox - ~300 unread emails
Personal email inbox - ~2550 unread emails
Active Directory List email inbox - ~4900 unread emails
Microsoft Security email inbox - ~6100 unread emails
 
And there is even more…. Those are just my main inboxes that I try to stay on top of.

My good friend Dan sent this to me and I just had to share…
 
The Difference Between Guts & Balls
There is a medical distinction. We’ve all heard about people having guts or balls, but do you really know the difference between them? 
In an effort to keep you informed, the definitions are listed below:
GUTS - Is [...]

Ok I finally got this posted, it is in ppsx format. It seems to work great on Vista and occasionally does weird things on XP… I hate Office…
http://www.jadonex.com/comingsoon/
Note that unless you are a techy, primarily an Active Directory Techy, this probably isn’t going to appeal to you all that much.
 
 
 
Not sure on when Dean will [...]

Microsoft was required to publish a bunch of previously undocumented protocol stuff for Windows. If you haven’t peeked at it yet, you can find it here
 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc203350.aspx
 
Lots of fun DS stuff as well as whole bunches of other stuff…

While working on the PPT Deck for DEC I was going through the slides that were put together almost entirely[1] by Dean and came across a slide on how to show container objectClass objects in the NEW context menu selection in ADUC - i.e. how to make it so you can create new container objects [...]

The song from that fun new commercial from Apple for the Mac Book Air is New Soul by Yael Naim.