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Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

A product marketing manager from Quest Software sent me this link…
For those of you from the 80’s music era will recognize… this was inspired by the Beastie Boys and of course the Beastie Boys rock.
The guys are from Quest Sales Team and they are
Nick Dean
Michael St. Pierre
Kristian Vandemark
 
Good job guys.
 
http://www.saveyourad.com
 
For the next Beastie’s [...]

Well I did a lot of cleanup around the yard, got a lot of sore muscles, nice sunburn which my Filipino blood has turned to tan now and had several beautiful bonfires…. Some people go camping, I go to my back yard, play all day, and then sleep in my nice pillowtop mattress bed. [...]

This looks interesting…
http://www.zoysiafarms.com/mag

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

I always thought this company had a great hook for their advertising but would never trust technology to the extent he says it could be trusted when he gave out his SS# during the ad.
 
ID Theft Security Company CEO Gets ID Stolen
After putting his social security number in ads as part of the marketing strategy [...]

The other day Plato and a Platypus walked into a bar. The bartender gave the philosopher a quizzical look, and then Plato said, “What can I say? She looked better in the cave.”
     - From Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar

Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

“And what would you do,” the Master said unto the multitude, “if God spoke directly to your face and said, ‘ I command that you be happy in the world, as long as you live.’ What would you do then?”
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

“Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts [...]

“Mrs. O’Callahan instructed the artist painting her portrait to add to it a gold bracelet on each of her wrists, a strand of pearls around her neck, ruby earrings, and a diamond tiara.
The artist pointed out that would be tantamount to lying.
Said Mrs. O’Callahan, “Look, my husband’s running around with a young blonde. After I [...]

This is a good article about one of the reasons we are seeing the prices we are seeing:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/flowchart/2008/3/10/why-gas-prices-rise-as-the-dollar-falls.html
 
This is a map of the country and the various gas prices…
http://michigangasprices.com/map_gas_prices.aspx?z=0&lat=37.984375&long=-96.312500&ft=A&tl=48
 

 
 
 
This is where the country should be focusing dollars at
http://www.mrsolar.com/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/current.shtml
 
My one hope with the outrageously high fuel prices (yes Europe… I know how high it has [...]

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.
You seek problems because you need their gifts.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

joe says:  I was sure when I first told you
joe says:  But I don’t put past some evil ass hack you found that is completely and utterly unsupported
joe says:  I have strong faith in your ability to find things that you aren’t supposed to be able to do

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is…
…ourselves.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

I took this shot after doing the cleanup work last Saturday/Sunday. It is about 650 feet back from the road (350 from the house) and the property goes back about another 1000 feet behind where I took the picture and all you can hear are birds and frogs and fish jumping in the pond. The [...]

I have received a few emails lately that all pretty much comment about being “all over the map” with my quotes, etc. People asking, what in the world do you read, you seem to be a trifle eclectic in your tastes…
Why yes, that is true. I read any and everything pretty much. I have [...]

I saw a posting that had a piece on AdFind at ActiveDir.org that made me want to post something to my blog here for anyone who doesn’t read ADOrg…
Basically one of the posters came up with a good way of setting local admin passwords on machines and part of the solution was to use adfind [...]

The Golden Rule doesn’t work. How would you like to meet a masochist who did unto others as he would have them do unto him? Or a worshiper of the Crocodile God, who craves the honor of being thrown alive into the pit? Even the Samaritan, who started the whole thing… what made him think [...]

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Do you think that maybe if you say impossible over and over again a thousand times that suddenly hard things will come easy for you?
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

I have an ad for some new service Amazon has called subscribe and save. It is a service to order food and other type items like that through Amazon and have it delivered for free. Well I decided to look up an item I just bought last night, my favorite cereal… Cocoa Pebbles… Yes I [...]

Call me weird but I actually like Dandelions, never got why people were so “out to get them”. I think they are really pretty. Our neighborhood was just covered in them the last few weeks well except for the neighbor across the street, I think they spray something to kill them off. They actually looked [...]

I spent most of today in the rain trying to pick stuff up around the back yard where I am reclaiming the “yard” from the “woods”. I am greatly hampered by piles of crap that are just randomly stacked up around back there. In the end I will likely spend hundreds of hours cleaning up [...]

I was talking with a good friend this evening and he asked a question which I would normally consider trivial but the way he put it made me go, oh wow, put that way, that is kind of interesting… It should work the way you would intuit it to work…
The question was, how do I [...]

Finally hooked the XBOX 360 up to my home theatre… My goodness did they make some improvements in the sound quality over the XBOX… Wow.  I need to finish the network drop that goes up to the home theatre setup so that I can tie into my media center and XBOX live. I am getting [...]

I need to get some photos but I have started repatriating[1] my yard. I started mowing out around the pond where I could which hasn’t been mowed in some time. For some reason the former owners dug out some of the pond and just stacked the dirt up around the pond making it impossible to [...]

I was looking for the GTA (Grand Theft Auto for you uncool people) city map in Google that I heard was out there and typed in Grand Theft in the search box and got these hits… Chrysler World Headquarters and the UAW…
 

This is going to be a “joe sees more movies than usual” summer I think….
 
http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/
 

They put Brett out in front of the world…. Oh my[1]…
 

 
 http://edge.technet.com/Media/Exchange-Server-meet-the-team/
Brett starts at 3:37…. He is awfully video-genic don’t you think? I just want to know why he wasn’t wearing a joeware t-shirt…
 
Overall, that was a great video and great idea. It shows that the MSFT Dev folks are real people which is [...]

Very unique sound…

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.    - Alexis Carrel

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7380064.stm
 
Long-term use of ibuprofen may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a large US study reports.
Data from almost 250,000 veterans showed those who used the painkiller for more than five years were more than 40% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s.
The study in Neurology reported that some other similar painkillers may [...]

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.     - William Shakespeare

…appears to be a processor pig… watch out.
Just did the Apple Update of QuickTime, iTunes, and Safari two days ago and was running iTunes the last couple of days and it kept hanging one of my “fast” machines up. 90% processor and better. Especially on video mode.

In one of my old posts (September 2005) I had some vbscript code to convert an octet string GUID to a friendly GUID string. Well I recently received an email from fellow MVP Michael Smith letting me know he found a bug and a new function that was corrected.
First thought in my mind was… NFW. [...]

In my previous article on DN formats (http://blog.joeware.net/2008/05/03/1226/) I talked about the various Base DN shortcut formats available and hinted that AdFind has some shortcuts of its own. To me these are all, well they aren’t even second nature because I use them almost exclusively. I am bringing it up because even people who use [...]

So Active Directory can do some cool things around distinguishedNames (DNs) that many developers even this long into the availability of the product don’t know or take advantage of. I mention this because yet again I ran into a case where some developer/application integrator was unhappy about how easy it is to move users around [...]

So I did something I always have some amount of trepidation doing… upgraded my web software, in particular I upgraded WordPress. This was needed, there was a security issue in the older version I was using and someone actually poked themselves into it and popped some hidden links into the blog entries. No harm to [...]

Now this is an evil weather front system…
 

My inner geek is coming out again…
Looks like they may have done it correctly this time. Though no one has yet to have properly explained to me why his pants stretch so much… I gain a few pounds and my pants rip right out in the crotch darn near every time.
 

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gsPiYvAUO3i7krLIdN-nv09fxkvQD90CE08O0
 
Chilean town giving free Viagra to senior citizens
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A working class suburb of Chile’s capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday. Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete said he launched the program because “an active sexuality improves the overall quality of life.”
About 1,500 residents of the working-class area [...]