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I seem to have developed a following for my less than technical entries on this blog, it seems I tend to get more email and other responses when I rant or complain about something than when I am posting pure tech. I think possibly it is because pure tech may bore people and they either […]

In an interesting article I picked off of Google News http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/08/BUG8QHK6S01.DTL&type=business it seems HP is being sued by Stockholders because they gave their last CEO a huge bonus for/after leaving of ~$42 million. I don’t know about you, but it has always confused me why an exec who hurt a company gets any kind of […]

As many of you know, I do a lot of Technical Reviewing of books and wrote the 3rd Edition update of O’Reilly Active Directory as well as wrote the Exchange chapter of the Windows Server Cookbook (which got mostly slipped into the Active Directory 3e book as well as the Active Directory Cookbook 2e) so […]

Microsoft is too hung up on names. Why do I say that? Because they like to change them and they like to push things simply on the name. Raise your hand if you got sick of hearing DOT NET all of the time? What about the word “Active”? Or COM or COM+? Microsoft picks words […]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17866401%255E2702,00.html Since when has the Golden Globes and Oscars EVER been about the movies popular with the general populace of the United States? I don’t recall ever. Every year I sit there wondering, how the heck did that win, I don’t know anyone that saw it. But now…. now it is a gay/lesbian political agenda […]

I just realized that I didn’t report back about the Book of Daniel. I have to say that NBC lucked out that the AFA attacked them, I think they are enjoying the free advertising. If this show had to build its own following normally, it might have been tough, especially since it is only limited […]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article338230.ece Awfully stupid way to die. Rating 3.00 out of 5

I lived in Indiana for a while when I was kid, I remember a few things. Riding in a trailer behind a lawn tractor, big fields of something green, and a pool table that I couldn’t see the top of. Later when I had grown up (or more accurately was older) I learned from my […]

The history channel has been interesting this week with several armageddon type shows. The whole thing sort of confuses me if I look at it as a pure religious conversation. There are all of these religious folks out their saying we can expect armageddon in our lifetime. So what? What does it mean to us […]

Yes I watch reality TV, it always makes me chuckle with how unrealistic a lot of it is and the producers visions of reality. I commented before on The Apprentice, time to do so again… Anyway, saw The Apprentice finale last night. I have to say I liked Randall from the first show but in […]