I like the thermostat set nice cool at 65.
My wife likes to crank it up to 70.
so we compromised.
It’s set at 70.
– Craig Ferguson
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12/7/2010
12/6/2010
Silicon Dust HD Digital Tuner on big time sale at Amazon!!!
I love this thing! Use it with my Windows Media Center 7 but will work with other DVR software as well. On sale right now for $89.99, I bought mine for $149.99. Was going to buy another at that same price and saw it was on sale so did a cartwheel and then ordered it.
Also eligible for Amazon Prime if you have that available to you!
12/3/2010
Can’t believe I found this again…
I first saw this, hmm I don’t know maybe in the late 90’s or so at a Financial company I worked at. I don’t know why but I can’t stop laughing at it. I recalled it last night while we were watching TV and one of those new funny pistachio commercials came on with a cat playing the keyboard…
http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman
I also really liked this one
http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens
And another but with bunnies instead of kittens…
http://www.rathergood.com/bellrays
This is the pistachio cat commercial that is on TV now…
12/2/2010
Thank you Microsoft
My main server got its system disk scrambled over thanksgiving break due to some power issues. I am not sure what exactly happened as I was a couple of hundred miles away but I came home to clocks blinking and computers shut down. My media center unfortunately lost its DVD drive. One of my laptops lost its power supply. Most oddly, my server’s system disk got discombobbled. This is odd because I have a nice UPS on the machine and I wouldn’t have expected the failure. Especially since I formatted the disk and ran patterns on it and it ran fine.
Anyway, the machine was running Windows Server 2008 and I had been wanting to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 on it so I could stumble against any changes etc at home instead of in front of customers. After a couple of days now I have noticed that the server is very distinctly moving faster. I don’t know what or why or how, but it is definitely faster. So some change somewhere in the OS is just making it run more efficiently and I love that. Especially in this world of newer means fatter and more bloated and slower. I got this same result when I upgraded a couple of my test machines from Windows Vista to Windows 7 as well. I didn’t really expect it when moving from Windows Server 2008 to 2008 R2, but I am thankful that it is working out that way. 
joe
12/1/2010
11/30/2010
Top Ten Arcade Classics
http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/19/top_ten_arcade_classics/
1. Space Invaders – Love it! I recall playing one of these with the monitor permanently colored so the black and white screen looked like it was in color based on how high up the invaders were.
2. Pac-Man – Ok. I was never so much into this game. I was a science nerd, spaceships were cooler than yellow blobs eating dots.
3. Defender – WOOO!!!! All time favorite standup video game. When I got bored I would go through and shoot all my guys so I could be in open space and having the alien ships totally going berzerk on me. Smart bombs were cheating. I can only play this game on the original standup, I was too in love with the initial offering. I just think back to a plate of greasie pizza, She Blinded Me With Science on the jukebox and Defender blisters on my fingers…
4. Battlezone – Love it! This was a blast. I really liked it. Especially the enemies blowing up. I would love that on my XBOX 360 now.
5. Star Wars – Love it! Who can’t love Star Wars. George Lucas is a god. Next time I get out to California I am going to tour some Lucas stuff. It’s good to know the right people. 🙂
6. Dragon’s Lair – Loved it but it was too expensive!
7. Out Run – Loved it! Racing around in a convertible hotrod. Hey I have a Mustang GT Convertible with big fat racing tired and reprogrammed computer now…
8. Shinobi – Never played it.
9. Street Fighter – Loved it!
10. Time Crisis – Don’t recall even seeing this one.
Some games that weren’t on the list that I liked
1. Moon Patrol
2. Donkey Kong
3. Joust
4. Galaga
5. Asteroids
6. Centipede
11/25/2010
Don’t Understand…
I saw this and wanted to share it, I see it as a great statement of fact for most places.
“Consuming application owners don’t understand how their applications consume identity management services, resulting in poor configuration and change management.”
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