Monthly Archive: February 2012

Feb 28

Ok that does it…SharePoint Security

Sorry Microsoft Dept. of Best Practices, I’m tired of remembering 40 dozen passwords per virtual machine I setup for dev Virtual Machines.  From now on: I’m setting up only one service account, he shall have full administrator privileges His password shall be “a” no more, no less (there are issues with null passwords in SharePoint, …

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Feb 19

Me in the City Again…

Seattle, this city and myself have a little bit of history.  I’ve vacationed in my way young past, and been up here twice else for Job interviews (was declined on one, turned down the other).  But still after being away from a “big” heavily metro city for a while, this place seems well…different… Anyways my …

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Feb 11

Sprint and the Tragedy of the Commons?

Since my first Cell Phone I’ve been a Sprint customer (now about 12 years).  They give me a great phone and piles of bandwidth and I give them money, it’s been a mutually beneficial agreement Lately I’ve been watching the developments in the cell phone industry, Verizon, AT&T have all gone to limited plans.  T-Mobile …

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Feb 10

The Decision to Give

You see a panhandler on the street begging for cash, what provokes you to give or not? I keep telling myself I’ll never give to a panhandler again, but yet sometimes something about my inner chemistry provokes me to fork over a few dollars yet again despite myself.  I’ve tried to analyze for my sake, …

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Feb 04

Interesting Kroger Corporate Search Bot

So I’m perusing my Blog statistics when I spot an interesting visitor today going by the (host) name webcrawler02.kroger.com.  Now all are more than welcome but I’d be curious as to just who this guy is after a search on the Internet revealed little about him other than some more curious forum posters.  My theory …

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Feb 04

The State of the Economy As I See It

So it seems that the economy is improving now.  The prognosticators that be have marked the unemployment rate lower, my inbox is swarming even more with recruiter emails and my wife is busier than ever on tax returns this year. But yet…another friend of mine just had his job outsourced and one couple who babysit …

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