It's me! Over IP!

I had the displeasure of watching the first 15 minutes of “Legend of the Seeker” yesterday. I read Wizard’s First Rule and thought it would be interesting to see the series. Boy, was I wrong. As usual, screen writers decide to change the story to the point of being a travesty. It misses all the subtleties of the book and the slow build up on the relationship of the two main characters. Why do they have to ruin every book adaptation needlessly? And no, it did not require being destroyed because “it was not TV ready”. That’s an excuse, especially in this case.

Bye, bye #dlink dir-655

I just replaced my old router with a #Cisco E4200. Amazing how there are no more disconnects and everything is so much faster! I’m also surprised by how many clients can’t see the 5Ghz band. I need to dig into that a bit more.

I’m also surprised that #iPhones need the 20Mhz band to work.

I was surprised this week by the power of a nickel. I went to a vending machine I’ve used or years with a buck and now the item costs $1.05. That delta is enough to make it inconvenient - I don’t carry coins. I wonder if it would be an easier sell if it was two bucks!

Pro-tip: Self-Help: Bulk Exporting Contacts from Exchange to Gmail with full-fidelity

This is the best way I’ve found so far to do it with minimal pain:

1. Go to Outlook, contacts view;
2. Select all contacts (CTRL+A);
3. On the menu (or ribbon if Outlook 2010), select forward as business contact;
4. A new email shows up with all contacts as vCard files (*.vcf). Select them all (CTRL+A again), copy and then paste into a folder (e.g.: c:\temp);
5. Open a command prompt. In the folder you copied the files to, run “copy *.vcf all.vcf”
6. Go to Gmail, contacts and then find the import vCard dialog. 
7. Select all.vcf
8. Voila’

This definitely beats using CSV - which loses photos and other fields - but is still bulk rather than one-by-one.

Not an UFO

BTW, in the picture below, the lights are not an UFO. Just the sun’s reflection on the car window.