Christmas 2013
Starting things off with our annual kids Christmas party at Praxair. This year, Cambree wasn’t afraid of Santa. She was actually quite excited to see him.
I’m sitting here in a Sharepoint class and ran across this series of steps to configure a particular option. Someone over at Microsoft has a severe alliteration fetish! Go to “Services on Server” Click “Office SharePoint Server Search” Once on the “Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings” page, select “Use this server for serving search…
Recently, a study was published by some mathematicians using some fancy mathematical models that showed bad drivers cause traffic jams. To this I say, “Duh!” Either you were already aware of this fact, or you are, perhaps unknowingly, one of the bad drivers. To be fair, the study was a bit more in depth. What…
Wow, some of these tasks take forever to run. Our server has somewhere around 260 places and 18 gigs of data. It took three hours to run “upgrade -server” and 9.5 hours to run “upgrade -a”. I’m on to “register -install -a” now, but like most of the process I start a task running, leave,…
Last year was the first year that I really started paying attention to the stock market. While I’ve had a portfolio for several years, I was unsuccessfully following the old “Buy and Hold” mantra. I decided that 2006 was going to be the year I learned more about how the system actually worked and I…
Ariella got a new toy yesterday, and it’s bigger than her. She seems a little… anxious about it. Ok, I admit it – it was just an opportunely timed shot. She really is just as happy as ever. Although… she did keep waking up every few hours last night. Hmm… maybe the penguin really did…