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So I am watching TV the other day and there is a Saturn commercial raving how great a couple of their cars are and how “green” they are because they get 30 MPG on the highway… My Mustang GT gets 21-22 MPG when I am racing around town with the top down which includes doing [...]

Well my MVP lead is already asking for the year’s accomplishments to determine if I have been helpful enough to receive the MVP designation another year. I have to say this is absolutely the earliest this has happened in the ummmm 6, 7, or 8 years that I have been an MVP. It usually happens [...]

http://grenouille-bouillie.blogspot.com/2008/05/where-did-hp-way-go.html
 
Good article.

This is fully 10% of the Starbucks stores in Seattle, whatever will they do if you can’t hit a Starbucks on all four corners of every intersection? ;o)
 
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hinV1XVpDeRBwTJTEpQCkvIcoMJAD91LG05O0

I don’t expect Bill Gates will ever see this blog post but with Bill’s retirement from full time Microsoft operations I just wanted to offer a very sincere and heart felt “thank you very much Bill”.
Regardless of what anyone says of Bill or Microsoft, the face of computing is very different now than it [...]

Well Darren has effectively said “Tag, you’re it” for this Scripting/Sysadmin Meme that is going around. I kind of liken this to the emails that say send this to 7 of your friends immediately but since I am not actually forwarding it, you have to come to me to read it, I will play. [...]

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080618/0408055.html
 
http://www.tec2009.com/

So besides house pics, I have been pinged a lot about “Hey how is that Carbon Monoxide thing working out for you?”
Well I have finally gone through all of the various doctor tests. Overall I am in very good shape, just getting older. It was confirmed through blood work that I had had serious CO [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

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 [...]

…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.

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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So maybe not a complete geek, this looks good too.
 
Deception…
 

Yes I am a geek….
 
Iron Man the Movie!!!

 
 
Iron Man Trailer
 
http://www.myspace.com/ironmanmovie

Recently my work cell phone died and I had to get another one, instead of just getting a new phone on the current service (ATT then Cingular then ATT again), I decided to try Verizon as I heard good things about its connectivity.
I am absolutely willing to admit that I was stupid, I should have [...]

Alternate title - Who taught my cat how to tell time???
My gorgeous black cat Trouble whom I have mentioned before, the President and CEO of joeware, at some point has learned how to tell time. I don’t know how she did it, I don’t even let her look at books because I don’t need a [...]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-india-stress_nu_goeringapr20,1,7771719.story
Indians may have taken over three-quarters of the world’s call-center jobs, but they’ve also taken on the stresses of those jobs: weight gain, depression, boredom and, often, relationship troubles.

The 2008 MVP Summit is over. It included some 2000 MVPs from around the world. I didn’t see and talk to most or even a large number, relatively, of the MVPs. Pretty much I stuck to the 40 or so DS MVPs that were present as well as a bunch of Exchange MVPs[1]. There were [...]

There was, of course, a session, actually several at the MVP Summit about Power Shell and what I was, in particular, involved with, was the Active Directory Provider the MSFT DS team is working towards. At the beginning of the first session I was caught off guard and really had to laugh pretty hard… The [...]

The MSFT DS Dev team needs our help. They need use cases for ADAM 2008 on Vista as well as future client OSes to push for an install that works on Vista and future client OSes. Apparently they want to do it and my response of "what are you kidding me, how come I can’t [...]

Sorry MSFT Marketing, I will not call ADAM by the new name you want to give it, ADLDS, no matter how much you want me to….
I also will not call AD, ADDS….

I have to say that I received some of the nicest compliments from various Microsoft MVPs at summit this year. I heard several "Your utilities have saved my ass more than once" comments but the comment that just made me smile and smile when I heard it was a direct response from a direct question [...]

I am in the Westin in Seattle as I type this getting ready for bed. Here is a google map view
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=Seattle,+WA,+USA&ll=47.613396,-122.337699&spn=0.004781,0.011362&t=h&z=17
The Westin Seattle is 2 round towers, I am in the south tower. The lower right one in the google map.
 
It was overall a nice trip. Traffic to the airport was great. Check in [...]

R2-D2 Wireless WebCam
 
http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=1218826;category_id=;pcid1=;pcid2

I received this and thought it was a good story.
 
When I arrived at 2:30 a.m., the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.
Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, and then drive away. But I had seen too many impoverished [...]

I will be out in Redmond and Seattle for the Microsoft MVP Summit from Sunday to Friday… So if I seem quiet… that would be why.

I am smack in the middle of email issues so if anyone has sent me email in the last few days and I haven’t responded…. Well that would be the reason.
 
Anyone who sent me email prior to Wednesday and I haven’t responded… well I just haven’t gotten to that yet. :<>

I thought I would add my part to this ridiculous controversy which illustrates that some people have too much time on their hands… Maybe even me for taking time to have read the article and then post this…
This is a picture of Dick Cheney out fly fishing, this picture was posted on the White House [...]

This application does some sort of analysis on the pictures, so even if the pictures have different names or sizes, it seems pretty good at finding duplicates…
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Others/SimilarImages.shtml

My first car was a 1972 Mustang Coup with a 351C (Cleveland big block) with glass packs and Hooker headers and a nice high lobe Crane cam (I put it together), sounded quite a bit like this 71 Coupe… I would drive through parking lots and every single car with a car alarm would go off [...]

The album Coco by Colbie Caillat. I can’t stop listening to it. I knew of a couple of songs previously but early last week I just put the whole album into Now Playing in Media Player and it is still there playing over and over again. I am quite grateful I was told to listen [...]

Should have done it a while ago actually.

[This post brought to you by Geritol, Depends, Commodore Basic V1.0[2], and the letter P.]
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU OLD BRITISH WANKER.
Your friend joe…
 
 
[1] And I don’t mean old as in I have known him a long time…
[2] Written by none other than Bill Gates of Micro-Soft Corporation. (Really)

Just saw this today in an email my mom sent me… Whoa. Those crafty Germans. ;o)
 

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Water_Bridge
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=52.2309+11.702+(Magdeburg+water+bridge)&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=52.230908,11.701384&spn=0.008543,0.02075&t=h&z=16

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article831344.ece
but then
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/alleged_youtube_rape_victim_arrested/

As far as I can tell, this blog http://www.rafalot.com/ scans other blog headlines for LOL and then posts them to that blog so you hit them in searches and give them ad dollars… WTF. I hate morons like this.