July 13, 2010 | In: Project Management
It's morning, you are late for work, you grab your coffee and hop in the car to get on your way. You check the rear-view mirror to make sure nothing is behind you. You also check the side mirrors to make sure both sides are clear. You begin backing...
February 12, 2010 | In: Technology, twitter
Alan Lepofsky had a post where he played with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to come up with a Hierarchy of Tweets. He goes on to describe each of the levels in the hierarchy as it pertains to tweeters. Very humorous.I think my...
So, I was doing my pre-spring cleaning of the garage that I always do. This time the purpose was to get the car actually in the garage. In any case, I am a "holiday engineer", which basically means that I build things (typically dead and scary), along...
January 9, 2010 | In: Fun, Technology
I just stumbled across this today though it has been available since 2008. I have been enthralled with the game demo. Basically, the game comes with several levels of "playgrounds". In the playgrounds, you have an objects (usually a ball) that you...
January 7, 2010 | In: Microsoft, Technology, Windows
Over the last week or so, I have been seeing a number of posts (Twitter, Facebook, blogs) talking about gaining access to hidden features in Windows 7 that has been termed "God Mode". Some have even called it "Super Admin" mode. After seeing all of...
January 6, 2010 | In: Cloud, Privacy, Technology
ars technica has a great story about the FTC believing consumers don't have a clue about the privacy implications. While cloud storage is not a very new concept, the use of the cloud by consumers is picking up now that pricing for these services is...
January 5, 2010 | In: Business, Featured Articles, Strategy
Well, here it is, the second week of 2010 and I am finally getting around to posting my first entry of the year. One of my resolutions was to post much more frequently. For this entry, I am stepping away from my technical content and providing my...
December 7, 2009 | In: Technology
It has now been almost a month since I acquired my Kindle2 reader from Amazon. I wanted to take the opportunity to jot down some thoughts as well as a gotcha and a workaround that I came across. First, as I mentioned in a earlier post Amazon has a huge...
October 23, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Ok, so far we have created, modified, and added resources (memory, processor, disks, and network) to virtual machines. Now, we want to take that information and build a complete virtual machine. # Set up variables $VHD = "f:\VHDs\win2k8.vhd" $GuestVM =...
October 23, 2009 | In: Technology
AAAAHHHHHH! Just when I think I have decided on the right eBook reader for me, another one comes out with bigger and better features that made me revisit my earlier research. First, I looked through several readers, but it really came down to Sony's and...
October 22, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Last time I looked at scripting memory resource creating. Today, I want to look at the final individual component, network resources. These network resources are virtual network interfaces that are connected to a virtual switch. A virtual network...