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This morning on the Fox 2 news in Detroit there was a report that the 50 year old refrigerator at the Macomb County Jail had mold in it and had to be shut down. That meant that prisoners had to be fed bologna sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the prisoners were complaining… […]

In a previous blog entry (http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/05/1826/) I mentioned a need for some software for the Storm Chasers… A person (name withheld to protect the guilty) sent me a nice informative email on some of this stuff and I wanted to share parts of it… Note I did ask for permission first… “Most chasers and spotters, […]

In 1944 the Battle of the Bulge began… Bloodiest set battles of World War II for American Forces but the end was in sight for the Nazi war machine. Rating 3.00 out of 5

My Aunt Linda sent this to me. http://www.gabrielwhitepiano.com/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

I have the Discovery Channel Storm Chasers show on for background while working on something else. I don’t purposely watch this show normally but when it happens to be on, I leave it on because it is interesting. After two episodes in a row I started thinking, they really need to tie all of these […]

Dentist appt co-pays… But also the fact that VHDMount will not accept a drive letter with a colon for the drive letter parameter. The X number of years that I have been working on PCs you specify the drive letter as <letter>:, not <letter>. So this C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount>vhdmount /m e:\vhd\eviltest.vhd f: Invalid command […]

Charlotte, North Carolina bound tomorrow morning for the Thanksgiving festivities. If you are down there and see someone running around in a joeware hoody or t-shirt please feel free to say hi. If you have a tech position in a company that pays really well, be even more forceful. 🙂 Rating 3.00 out of 5

I got the pictures below in my inbox… As well as a link to the Top Gear review (I LOVE TOP GEAR – but I don’t get it with my cable system…) Only 20 in the world… Reventon versus Tornado jet fighter               Rating 3.00 out of 5

I get a lot of emails from people asking for help. I generally look at the domain the emails come from. Usually it is gmail or hotmail or yahoo or comcast but there are a lot of business email addresses as well. Of those sometimes I get a good chuckle because it is from someone […]

On this day in 2000, the U.S. went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The outcome wouldn’t be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida. We all learned far more about hanging chads and alleged corruption in Broward County than we wanted.     […]