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http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/

When you choose behavior, you choose the consequences.
   - Dr. Phil (Chapter 9 - Family First)

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
      - Robert Fulghm

Your children are profoundly shaped by you, and your actions will resonate, for good or ill, throughout the rest of their lives. Be a parent who lives the qualities, characteristics and values you would like your family to emulate. Let your life be a living example of what you want to see in your children.
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I thought I was done with the books I was reviewing a few weeks ago. I found out later that I was wrong, there were a few more chapters I had to do for the Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition. Thankfully, I finished that up tonight.
CHEER!
 
I received my new compiler via Fed Ex, now [...]

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1831461

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

 
http://xkcd.com/386/

…because yesterday I ordered the new Code Gear Builder Pro 2009 compiler/IDE and I paid for it in part with PayPal donations from some of you folks. I greatly appreciate the donations and as you can see just roll it right back into producing more products.
While I could start using the Visual Studio suite [...]

So my sister, the world famous artist, now has a second book out that she illustrated. It is a children’s illustrated book, you can find it here
http://gallery.trendyartist.com/portfolio.php?cat_id=10
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sprucie/Nancy-Ellison/e/9781436339568/?itm=6
 
This reminds me of some children’s books I wrote when I myself was “a children”… I should see if I can scan them and post them. I was a [...]

http://www.vladville.com/2008/09/the-joy-of-it.html

Hmm the NBC embedding doesn’t seem to be working for this… here is the direct link…
 
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

I am not loving this one so much, not sure I really get it…
 
 
New Family: Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates (Long Version)

So my outstandingly good friend and brother from another, but English, mother (or would that be Mum) Dean Wells has moved on from one job and onto another. This will likely shock the heck out of some people and others will say wow that makes sense, about time. I know I was shocked at first [...]

Talk to your children about the fact that they own their feelings. Their sadness or anger is not caused by someone else. They are not mad because someone else made them mad. They’re angry or sad because of how they choose to respond. Emotional responses are triggered by our interpretation - the meaning we assign [...]

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
 
Don’t know what the LHC is???
Read this —> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhc
 
Seriously… its very cool. Even if you don’t care about the science, at least you will know what it is when Angels and Demons (by Dan Brown - yes Da Vinci Code Dan Brown) comes out next year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_%26_Demons_(film)).

This was an outstanding post and I thought should be copied here…
 
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org On Behalf Of Don HacherlSent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:52 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Delegating Start/Stop Service on DCs
Years ago I worked with a “domain admin qualified” person at Microsoft who fat fingered the admin UI and deleted a container instead [...]

Now this is really stupid, hope they have a fix in the works.
http://blogs.technet.com/sus/archive/2008/09/03/wsus-windows-vista-clients-reboot-automatically-even-though-a-user-is-logged-on.aspx
The idea is to shut off things that you don’t need and I would argue, successfully I think, that if you aren’t using remote desktop to control a machine, it doesn’t need to be running. I don’t care if the WUA people did [...]

So I just found out I am not done with Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition, a couple of more chapters haven’t been uploaded to the SharePoint yet. That sucks. Can’t wait to get that off my plate so I don’t have to worry about it anymore.

Recently in working with Laura Hunter on my Technical Review of Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition, I mentioned that AdFind and AdMod could be used together to do a smart™  update of bit flag attributes. She was a bit surprised so I figured I would mention it here as well for everyone.
But first let’s back [...]

Familar with Service Connection Point objects? This is an object in AD that is published by various services so people/processes can find them. For example, by default ADAM will publish a service connection point object in AD so you can easily track down the instances, it will look something like
dn:CN={04c817c7-46a4-4a0e-b258-c2bd69c00f78},CN=2K3UTL01,CN=Computers,DC=test,DC=loc>objectClass: top>objectClass: joeware-ServerClass>objectClass: leaf>objectClass: connectionPoint>objectClass: serviceConnectionPoint>cn: [...]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

Imagine that…
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/svvp.html
 
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Sept 3, 2008 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced it has qualified its industry-leading VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 (ESX 3.5u2) is the first hypervisor to [...]

I am finally done reviewing Active Directory 4th Edition and Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition. It is nice to get those off my plate so I can get some other stuff done - like cleaning the house.
One of the first things I will try to clean up is the ~4000 unread messages in my [...]

http://consumerist.com/5043831/mythbusters-gagged-credit-card-companies-kill-episode-exposing-rfid-security-flaws
 
Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID’s security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage.

I have been buying Western Digital drives for years and years. That has stopped now. I just had the fourth drive in less than a year fail on me. Three computers, four failed drives. All drives between two and four years old. I have never had so many drives fail on me. This one was [...]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN0241925420080903
 
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) notebook computer that’s packaged in a recycled bag rather than a box has won a challenge by retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for less wasteful packaging.
HP’s Pavilion dv6929, which Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores are selling for $798, was singled [...]

Top 4 show…
David Cook didn’t sound so good in his first song - actually he sounded kind of flat. Babba O’Riley was ok, not great. You need to bang that song out, he didn’t, he shouted it.
Don’t agree with Simon on Syesha’s performance of Proud Mary, I thought it was pretty good. Not [...]

Got this in the inbox…
Hi Joe,
Thanks great tool. One quick question, I’m using CPAU to run a vbscript under a different user id however I was wonder if there was an easy way to pass parameters back to the calling application without having to give the “runas” account a lot of local access [...]

One day a scorpion arrived at the bank of a river he wanted to cross, but there was no bridge. He asked a frog that was sitting nearby if he would take him across the river on his back. The frog refused and said, “I will not, because you will sting me.”
The scorpion [...]