Today is the 10th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. Won’t you take a moment today to let your local system administrator (or IT staff) know that you appreciate their hard work? Of course you will … you wouldn’t want your e-mail to stop working today, would you? 😀
“Good Eats” with Alton Brown has been one of my favorite television shows since I first saw it back in 2000. I own a few AB-approved accessories (like the plunger measuring cups and a salt cellar) and I also have a signed copy of his first book “I’m Just Here for the Food.” He signed …
Wow. Michael Jackson was pronounced dead at a hospital Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home, marking a sad end to the life of a man who had been a global pop icon since childhood. “Thriller” was the first album (cassette) I remember buying. My sister and I went in on it …
Cleveland may still be waiting for that next sports championship, but at least some things are looking up. Today is the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire that sparked (sorry, bad pun, I know) the “Mistake on the Lake” moniker that residents (including myself) had to endure for so long. Today, the Cuyahoga is …
… you really should know the product! I just got cold-called at work by a gentleman with an Indian accent: “Sir, I am calling on behalf of SAP because you are qualified to receive a free white paper about SAP and how …” Since my primary focus is PeopleSoft system administration and development I am …
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The 2009 hurricane season starts on Monday so we spent some time today re-stocking our hurricane closet. What, you don’t have a closet in your house dedicated to hurricane supplies? 😉 Well, you can’t be too prepared here on the Gulf coast. Should we ever need to evacuate all we need to do is throw …
On my way home via-275 South through Tampa yesterday afternoon traffic came to a sudden stop. Eventually I was able to see that a police officer was blocking the left two lanes that lead to the Howard Frankland bridge, one of the four bridges across the bay and the main portion of my commute home. …
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I was sad to hear (on TWiT episode #188, via Ars Technica), that the University of Virginia has decided to dismantle their student computer labs. Apparently there’s not much of a need for them now that just about every incoming freshman has a laptop. I have lots of fond memories of my college’s computer labs. …
My wife’s 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid starting having problems with the radio and CD changer this week. It was doing strange things like trying to switch discs when you were changing the radio station, or randomly ejecting CDs. It occurred to me this morning, out of the blue, that this would probably be covered under …
Since I have TiVo, a commercial has to really catch my attention at 3x fast-forward in order for me to stop, rewind, and watch it. That’s exactly what Gatorade’s latest ad campaign, “The Quest for G,” did. The film is a hilarious cinematic re-creation of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” starring sports stars such …