It's me! Over IP!

ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:22:47 -0800

ROBOTS, obviously.

I had the displeasure of watching the first 15 minutes of “Legend of the Seeker”...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:42:58 -0700

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

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:57:55 -0700

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...

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:53:25 -0700

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

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:05:06 -0700

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

Go to Outlook, contacts view;
Select all contacts (CTRL+A);
On the menu (or ribbon if Outlook 2010), select forward as business contact;
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);
Open a command prompt. In the folder you copied the files to, run “copy *.vcf all.vcf”
Go to Gmail, contacts and then find the import vCard dialog.
Select all.vcf
Voila’

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

Not an UFO

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:43:22 -0700

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

Mozilla and Enterprises

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:13:17 -0700

Mozilla and Enterprises:

Good discussion on the new Mozilla release cycle.

Finally a sunny day in Seattle!

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:53:55 -0700

Finally a sunny day in Seattle!

Funny… Courtesy of Reddit.

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:18:17 -0700

Funny… Courtesy of Reddit.

Gorgeous video of Israel!

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:00:06 -0700

Gorgeous video of Israel!

Hello

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:27:24 -0700

I just tumbled. Sorry, couldn’t resist.