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Archive for December, 2010

Mental Gymnastics…

by @ Thursday, December 23rd, 2010. Filed under humour

Your ego is so out of whack that it will do whatever it can to protect itself. And people with a messed up ego can do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves they’re awesome, when really, they’re just douche bags!     – Kyle (South Park) Rating 4.00 out of 5

You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

by @ Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010. Filed under general

A well thought out and well written (at least in my humble opinion) Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais.   If for whatever reason you can’t access the link (twice today it wouldn’t pull up for me), I have the message below.   Why don’t you believe in God? I get that question all the time. […]

Too cool… On the fly foreign language sign translation

by @ Tuesday, December 21st, 2010. Filed under general

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/12/17/word.lens/ Rating 3.33 out of 5

AdFind Large Group CSV output Bug Fix Testing Confirmed

by @ Friday, December 17th, 2010. Filed under tech

Quick update to http://blog.joeware.net/2010/12/09/2163/ AdFind can now successfully output CSV for a test group that had over a million users (http://blog.joeware.net/2010/12/10/2168/). I am not saying it is rip roaring fast or anything, but it will do it.   Last night I also added the ability to add an INT8 string to the time decode output […]

Airport security checks are not only intrusive, demeaning and a mind-numbing drain on our precious time. They don’t actually work…

by @ Thursday, December 16th, 2010. Filed under general

Interesting article… The system you have in Europe and America is bull****. Unless you adopt an approach that actually works, whatever technology you care to use will make little difference. The terrorists will always be one step ahead,’ says Rafi Sela, a top Israeli security consultant. Through his firm, AR Challenges, he is in charge […]

For the Facebook users…

by @ Thursday, December 16th, 2010. Filed under general

The first thing you probably want to know about Facebook’s new "tag suggestions" — which uses facial recognition technology to suggest which friend is probably featured in which photo — is that you can turn it off. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/16/5660488-facebooks-facial-recognition-knows-who-your-friends-are- Rating 3.00 out of 5

Displaying AD GUIDs/SIDs from vbscript…

by @ Wednesday, December 15th, 2010. Filed under tech

I just encountered an email from someone asking how to output SIDs from vbscript. I thought I had something up on the blog already for this but I couldn’t find it (maybe it is in the book??) so I thought I would put something up. The following link is to a friend and fellow MVP, […]

Validating an email address programmatically…

by @ Friday, December 10th, 2010. Filed under tech

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cache/email/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

Free AD and ADAM sync engine from Quest… Wha wha whaaaaaa???

by @ Friday, December 10th, 2010. Filed under tech

I haven’t been able to download it yet but it is certainly worth a look. People have often heard me say that Quest has some of the best developers who understand and write software for MSFT products outside of Redmond. In fact, there are times when I think some of those guys know more about […]

Tom Christiansen’s Perl Script Archive

by @ Friday, December 10th, 2010. Filed under tech

http://cpan.perl.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

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