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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Live blogging from Treanna’s birthday party
What do you get when you mix four third-grade girls, a green felt puzzle mat, a large dining room table, various blocks of scrap wood and posterboard, small dowels, and some of the components from Microtactix Dirt Cheep Dungeons? That’s … Continue reading
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Small annoyances redux
Holidays are a time of love, peace, family unity, good smells coming from the kitchen, world peace, and a fluffy bunny for every child. They are also times of high stress, especially for those who are hosting the inevitable gatherings. … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Spirituality
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Some tips for upgrading to Exchange 2003 SP2
It’s been a little over a month (where does the time go?) since Exchange Server 2003 SP2 was released. Now that I’ve deployed it to a few systems, I wanted to take a moment to share some of the potential … Continue reading
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Support us…or else
If you haven’t yet heard about the brewing conflict between the IRS and the congregation of All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, go now to this article by Robert Freedland and read. Since Bush has been such a staunch supporter … Continue reading
The perfect time travel movie
I need to start up a list of my top 10 (or 15, or 25) movies of all time. If I did, Frequency (New Line Platinum Series) would definitely earn a place on the list. I consider it to be … Continue reading
Posted in Recreation
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I’m lazy
If you’ve ever met me in person (or seen a full-body photograph of me), then you know that I’m more than a touch convex. The life of a sysadmin doesn’t really include enough of the right type of exercise to … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Life
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Small things, big annoyances
I recently posted a round-up of the recent music and videos we’ve been enjoying here in the Ganger household. One of the songs I took pains to point out is Lion from Rebecca St. James. However, there’s a small problem … Continue reading
Posted in Music
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To the Religious Right: WTF, over?
You get pissed off about sex in video games because of the children. You get pissed off about homosexuality because of the children. You get pissed off about all sorts of things because of the children. And yet you support … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Spirituality
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Nineteen
I still remember a time in politics, back when I was a lad, when the conservatives were the people who thought that you created the fewest number of laws you could get away with and the liberals were the ones … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Spirituality
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San Diego
This last week (Monday through Thursday), I was in San Diego for the Windows/Exchange Connections conference. It was my first Connections conference as well as my first trip to San Diego. San Diego was a nice town; it reminded me … Continue reading
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Music and Video update
It’s been a bit since I’ve talked about music and video, so here we go. Mickie’s belated birthday presents showed up (thanks, Mickie!) so I now have Explosive: The Best of Bond to listen to (and watch, since the flip … Continue reading
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A SQL Server trick: updating the values of IDENTITY columns
When I was recently troubleshooting a blog post that went missing, I ran into the following issue and thought I’d share it with y’all. Each article or post on my blog lives as a separate row in a database table. … Continue reading
Connections Report 2: Vendor Floor
There were a lot of interesting vendors at Connections. I was extremely surprised to see how many of them were slanted specifically towards email products — I’d always thought this show was mostly Windows with a dash of Exchange. Some … Continue reading
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Dr. Rootkit (or how I learned to get q0wned by Sony and love DRM)
On the one hand, I am shocked that any major corporation would be so stupid as to place a rootkit on content-protected CDs (see this most illuminative article by Mark Russinovich to see how Sony is putting rootkits on their … Continue reading
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Connections Report 1: Exchange Cookbook Secret Sauce
I’ve been down in San Diego for the Windows Connections/Exchange Connections conference this week. Even though I hadn’t been accepted as a speaker this time around, I was eager to go heckle my co-authors at their session Secret Sauce: Best … Continue reading
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