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Cloud: a visible mass of particles of condensed vapor (as water or ice) suspended in the atmosphere of a planet (as the earth) or moon. Think back a few short years ago, that simple word brought wonderful visions of beautiful light airy vapor floating aimlessly across the sky. Visualize it, if you can… Whole afternoons [...]

So according to http://earthsky.org/earth/groundhog-day-2013-how-accurate-is-punxsutawney-phil our favorite ground hog, Punxsutawney Phil is only accurate 39% of the time. Is this just the weather people trying to feel better about themselves? What if it isn’t Phil’s accuracy that is poor, with 61% of the time incorrectly predicting weather… What if in fact it is humans reading the [...]

"Gentlemen, today I moved Kabletown’s Customer Service to a part of India that has no phones. We’re now providing the same level of service to our subscribers at zero the cost."   I will really really really miss 30 Rock… Rating 4.33 out of 5

The following feature information of Windows Server vNext information is not NDA, repeat not NDA… Due to the fact that it has been arbitrarily determined that the minimum barrier of something you know combined with something you have is too low for authenticating administrators, a new requirement to bring default administrator authentication up to three-factor [...]

A friend sent me this this morning, made me chuckle.   Rating 4.00 out of 5

A friend sent me a humourous email today, I felt I should share…   From: SomeADDude  Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 12:01 PM To: joe Subject: Was it wrong of me to answer an AD support call last night like this? I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you [...]

Stripes (Extended Cut)… Ghostbusters… Groundhog Day… All on DVD… http://goo.gl/eE784     Rating 3.00 out of 5

CIO: Isn’t that all just the internet? That is hardly news. SALESGUY: Well we are calling it all cloud now because that makes you want to buy more stuff from us.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpKhVGAYuw   Overheard in one of many Fortune X companies… Rating 4.00 out of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC8lt–rEEo Rating 4.33 out of 5

http://badprogrammer.infogami.com/   I especially enjoyed this piece   Signs that you shouldn’t be a programmer The following may not have any remedies if you still suffer from them after taking a programming course in school, so you will stand a better chance of advancing your career by choosing another profession. 1. Inability to determine the [...]