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Christmas Wish List
Here’s my wish list for Christmas this year. Thanks Santa!
- Honda audio adapter. I love my Honda, but one of its shortcomings is the lack of audio input jack. I absolutely love the redesigned Microsoft Zune and have subscribed to a number of podcasts. Now I need to be able to listen to those on my commute.
http://www.logjamelectronics.com/blitzhonauxdmxv2.html - 2 work lights. Whenever I’m working on stuff in the garage, or behind the entertainment center, or under a desk, or …. I never seem to have enough light for the task at hand. These would be quite handy!
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=203359-1373-FL-908PDQ&lpage=none - HD Home Run. Digital TV tuner (including HDTV) that can be used by our Windows Vista Media Center. OH YEAH!!!
http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/products/hdhomerun - Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth headset. Awesome sound clarity by blocking out background noises so Alicea can hear me in server rooms. 🙂
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RZFNN2
New Zune – WOW!!!
I have a Zune (30GB black) that I won at TechEd 2007. It’s been usable, but the software always ticked me off. Today Microsoft released a major upgrade to the Zune desktop software and device firmware, along with some new devices.
IT’S AMAZING!!! I love it! I think I’ve found my new media player (been using Windows Media Player 11). I can even play media while my Zune is connected to my laptop and charging (big issue I had with version 1).
Here’s a cool view of my music library while Mr. Matthews rocks my laptop…
And here’s the intuitive type-and-search feature. You can search on artist, album, or title just by clicking in that column and typing your search – it searches on the fly.
Can’t wait to explore all this some more as I have time. Between now and then – WOOHOO! A big shout out to Molly and all the other folks at Zune HQ. WELL DONE!
LA Observation
It has occurred to me that there seems to be a rule for women here in LA; at least those here in the downtown financial/business district. Okay maybe not a rule, but perhaps a rule of thumb.
High heels must be at least 33% taller here than anywhere else in the country.
GOOD GRIEF ladies – I don’t understand how you do it!?! That’s gotta hurt!
It’s like flats here in LA are really 2″ heels … and all shoes go up from there. Heck, even the trendy surfers-turned-businessmen have significant heels on their patent leather shoes!
Anyway, here’s to me walking around in my slip-on Merrils with no heels at all.
Why yes, I am still alive
A number of times a week I think, “Wow – this would make a great blog post.” Obviously that’s about as far as it gets.
I apologize.
Will I do better? Hopefully. Maybe. Traveling a lot in the next week or so, so it’ll be a challenge. Wish me luck!
You dope!
I’m not ashamed to admit it, every July I turn in to a cycling fan. I don’t really follow much of what’s going on throughout the year … hell I haven’t been on a bike in 3 or 4 years! But I love watching the Tour de France.
All this doping stuff is getting really old, and I hope one day it all gets cleaned up. Either that or, as my coworker says, just created an “unlimited class” and let them fry themselves with whatever they want to inject. 🙂
With all of the controversy at this year’s tour, in think this article written in April is just perfect: 2007 Tour De France Winner Stripped of Title.
“First and foremost,” said Patrice Clerc, President of Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), the promoter of the Tour de France), “I want to be the first to congratulate whoever wins the 2007 Tour de France. You are truly a great champion, and ASO thanks you for making our business possible. While we do not yet know who will win the Tour, I feel it is vital we acknowledge that person as the pinnacle of strength, conditioning, and personal sacrifice he undoubtedly must be.”
“Next,” continued Clerc, “I’d like to take this opportunity to accuse the aforementioned winner of using unscrupulous and nefarious methods to obtain this prize, and hereby accuse him — whoever he is — of doping.”
Making the world a better place
I just found out that the Microsoft Exchange Server bug I found back in January has been announced publicly, along with the patch! Check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938650 for the gory details. Essentially it means that (without the patch) if you are an Exchange 2003 user who sends a meeting request to someone in another company who uses Exchange 2007, when they accept your invite your 2003 calendar item will get corrupted. That corruption means that if you need to send an update or cancellation folks outside your organization won’t ever get the message.
But now, you don’t have to worry about that anymore. You’re welcome! 🙂
A HUGE shout out goes to Scott Oseychick from Microsoft for helping me get this bug fixed. You have no idea what we had to go through to get to a final resolution, but let’s just say it took a long time. 🙂
As a special thanks to Scott, here’s an adaptation of a common phrase…
“I waited 4 months for a patch and all I got was this crappy keychain.”
Shake it!
Oh yeah…
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Making up for lost words
I’ve been a bit out of it lately. Alicea and I spent a full week with a really bad sickness (won’t go into the details). The there was the holiday week, and work is ramping up into another busy period for me. Unfortunately blogging hasn’t been at the top of my to do list.
That being said, I just saw a diatribe from Keith Oberman from his MSNBC broadcast on July 3rd (here’s the link). Keith more than makes up for my lack of words lately.
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YouTube – Keith Olbermann – You have stabbed us in the back – RESIGN
Thanks Keith!
A question for my wife
As eloquently penned by Scott Adams [here].
“Do you enjoy horror movies? If so, what the f*ck is wrong with you?”
🙂
Really? I disagree.
“Dallas is looking a lot like Seattle these days,” says Ed Stoddard of Reuters in this evening’s story about the flooding happening in Texas.
In Marble Falls near the state capital, Austin, several people were rescued from the tops of their vehicles and even from trees after nearly 20 inches of rain came down in a matter of hours in the latest downpour.
Yeah, so it doesn’t do that here. If Seattle gets a heavy downpour like I was used to in the South people completely freak out. In fact, according to the Seattle Mayor’s Office, 20 inches of rain is more than half of our annual rainfall (36.2 inches). Chicago, Washington D.C., and NYC all get more annual rain than we do here.
Sure, we probably have more rainy days, but most of those are a gentle shower or heavy mist, and they sunny in the afternoon.
But if people keep thinking it rains all the time in Seattle, that’s fine with me. They can stay away we those of us intrepid worshipers of the rain can enjoy our beautify views of the mountains on cloudless sunny afternoons!
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