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I Donut Appreciate Microsoft’s Latest Online Ad
Noticed this ad on failblog.org this evening. Starts off with “No matter who you worship…”
Some people might say that I’m reading too much into this but, I’m sorry, I don’t like having God compared to Oprah and… Lance Armstrong (seriously?).
Search in SharePoint: it’s working at long last.
Alright, so, I’m configuring Microsoft SharePoint here at work and I’ve managed to get everything working properly except for the search function. I tried a bunch of different things but everytime I tried to initiate a full or incremental crawl, I’d get an error in the crawl logs stating that SharePoint didn’t have permissions to [...]
Fat Old Sun
Back in high school, I stumbled upon a rare recording of Pink Floyd’s “Fat Old Sun” from their Meddle album. It was a 15-minute live version of the ~5 minute original – recorded at the BBC in 1971. (9/30/71 to be precise.) Anyway, it was probably one of the most amazing things I had ever [...]
Knoxville Ultimate Automotive
Just so you know, buying a Honda was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I’ve got a 2002 Honda Accord with about 85k miles on it. I bought it used in ‘05 and, over the last four years, I’ve had to take that car in *remarkably* infrequently. Seriously, the *only* time I’ve had [...]
KnoxPass
Via @ac_ent, I just noticed that Knoxville has a new value book available: Knox PASS. According to their site, “Knox PASS was put together as a joint effort to raise awareness and funds for two local organizations that focus on supporting Knoxville and Knoxville’s Youth.”
The two organizations are Schools of FISH, which provides leadership [...]
Stop Using the Same Password Online
Do you frequently use the same username and password when registering for new sites? (e.g., online banking, Facebook, etc.) Do you frequently use your birthdate or pet’s name as your password on these sites? I thought so. Please stop doing that.
RE: Over-Hyped Subject (Or, “How My Association Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Networks”)
With this particular post, I aim to accomplish two personal goals of mine. First: to have the longest blog post title ever. Check. Second: to lay out (simply and relatively quickly) my own, personal argument that, despite how large your association/company is, it should have a presence on social networks like Twitter and, yes, Facebook… [...]
Gmail: Is It Too Easy to Use Now?
The answer, of course, is “yes…” and it’s getting more perfect with each passing minute*. *The frequency with which new features are added… or so it seems.
I, along with many others, began using Gmail as soon as it debuted in April of 2004. (Gmail will be 5 years old in about a month. Crazy.) However, [...]
CourseSmart Could Quite Possibly be the Worst Blend of Technology & Education
There were a couple of reasons I chose to go with an etextbook (for a class I’m currently taking) as opposed to a traditional textbook. First, I had actually gone the etextbook route a while back using iChapters.com. iChapters actually allows you to purchase individual chapters or the entire etext. Overall, the experience wasn’t too [...]
John McCain
Okay, I’m gonna try not to use the word "maverick" not even onc… aw, crap. I just did, didn’t I?
John McCain, once championed by a number of Democrats across the nation for his bipartisan efforts, has spent just about his entire life in public service. For both of those reasons, it deeply irks saddens me [...]
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