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A Day Long Remembered
After coming over for a beer tonight, a friend of mine sent me a text. “Steve Jobs died.” Impossible. Steve Jobes doesn’t die. He can’t die. Unfortunately, this is not true. It’s sobering to reacquaint ourselves with our own mortality, but Steve is no more. While I was not the first of my friends to…
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September Recap
As I was getting ready for my Fall Bacchanalia on Saturday with a Star Wars marathon (the good trilogy, in its unadulterated original release form), I realized that September’s been a pretty busy month for me. DISCLAIMER: The bottom (right) edge of my camera lens is scratched up from spinning and sliding my phone around…
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Tech Tip: Importing VMs for ESXi
One of the things I love about VMware and virtual machines is the ability to move them between servers with almost no effort. Last week I was working importing some virtual machines to a new host that had been shipped to us, and after uploading the VMs to the datastore and adding the machines to…
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Time for an experiment
I have concluded, after the last 24 hours, that I’m sick. Not in a major, show-stopping, don’t-shake-my-hand kind of way, but I’m sick. It’s probably the beginning of the bi-annual sick that I get around this time every fall and spring when the seasons go through their major changes and my body decides it doesn’t…
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Good news/bad news
Tonight was our last outdoor game for the season against the Rangers. For the 99% of you who have no idea who they are, they’re the soccer team that keep flipping back and forth between the lower division (which we’re at the bottom of) and the upper division (which we don’t even want to comprehend…
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Tech Tip: Exporting Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 SP1
The whole mailbox export thing for Exchange has come a long way since Exchange 2003. 2003 had ExMerge, and Exchange 2007 through 2010 RTM had the Export-Mailbox command in the Exchange Management Shell. I liked the whole management shell thing well enough, but having to install the management tools and Outlook to do mailbox exports…
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Plan C
The conclusion to my summer running goals was supposed to be the Park 2 Park half marathon, which is this Saturday. About a month ago I realized I was desperately not ready and set out an aggressive training plan. When a friend suggested the next day that such a plan might kill/cripple me, I came…
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Training Plan B
After a friend pointed out last night that my training plan was liable to result in the destruction of my Achilles tendon, we came up with an alternate plan based on this. Since I don’t have 3 months to prepare for a half marathon, we decided to start at week 7, and after accounting for…
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Tech Tip: Optimus
One of the fancy “new” features on my Latitude E6420 that I got a month or so ago was an nVidia technology called Optimus, which can help save battery life by reverting to onboard Intel graphics if applications don’t need the high graphics bandwidth the dedicated GPU can provide. I say “new” because this is…
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Half marathon training plan
I’ll begin with a confession: I’ve really slacked off in the last month since the Holland Hundred. I wasn’t running a whole lot before then either, but I could at least say I was training for a 70 mile bike ride. I had basically stopped working out altogether, and now it shows. I had made…
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