August 2006 - Posts

• Movie Review - Invincible

  Growing up in the suburbs of Phila in the 70s/80s was a tough time for me.  Almost everyone I knew was a Philadelphia Eagles fan.  I, on the other hand, was an Oakland Raiders fan.  So, when in 1981, the Raiders beat the Eagles in SuperBowl XV, I was a happy boy, but pretty much celebrated alone.  I always cheer for the Eagles unless they’re playing the Raiders – so I guess you can say that I’m and Eagles fan too.  Being the blue collar city that Phila is, the people know what they want, expect to get it when they want it, and ***, cry and complain when they don’t.  Like any blue collar town, the people work hard – and play just as hard.  That brings me to the Eagles fans.  They’re some of the toughest in sports.  Damn, they threw snowballs at Santa Clause!  However, they’re a passionate bunch and know the game.  With that comes the movie Invincible.  This movie, like others made by Disney is the feel good movie of the year.  The movie is based on the true story of a Vince Papale, a local bartender (played by Mark Wahlberg) who is down on his luck.  As he loses his job and his wife, it appears that things can’t get much worse.  In true Disney fashion, they do get better - and much better. After a terrible season, The Eagles, bring in new coach named *** Vermeil (played by Greg Kinnear).  Coach Vermeil holds open try-outs to shake things up a bit.  In doing so, Vince Papale tries out and makes the team – living most guy’s dreams, playing for their beloved football team.  Vince shows the drive and determination that is only shown from a player one step away from watching the game in the 600–700 section.    The movie takes quite a few parallels to the other Disney feel good sports movies – they show a down trodden guy down on his luck.  With hard work, drive and determination comes out on top.  I give it 3.5 stars out of 4. Posted Aug 27 2006, 04:02 AM by Anonymous with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Misc...

• Yanks are for real

  Anyone catch the 2nd rendition of the Boston Masacare?  For those that think that the Yanks aren’t for real – is this enough to get you to believe?  I think we’re looking at #27… :-) Posted Aug 21 2006, 01:20 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: Sports

• Yahoo SUCKS!!!!

  Several days ago I asked for some assistance on getting a new test server up and running.  Originally, I was apprehensive, as an outside host held the domain, and I wanted to ensure I could transfer the MX w/o issue.  I create a new MX record with a different priority and things went pretty well.  Well, in the mean time, I tried to get outside Outlook 2003 access and couldn't as I hadn't installed/configured RPC over HTTP.   Well, in the midst of all this, I asked to transfer the domain from SBC-Yahoo to Network Solutions.  Called both up and told them what I wanted to do and asked for guidance so I didn't lose any service.  Both told me that it was a painless process - I'd done it before, but hadn't worked with Yahoo prior to this.   Well, long story short - Yahoo BLOWS!!!  I've never in my life met a bunch of incompetent individuals in my life.  The transfer went well, except for one thing.  In order for me to transfer the domain out, I had to cancel the account.  No biggie the guy told me.  Ok - so I cancel the account and move on.  Well, this is only a test system and has a couple of accounts to start with - one being the CEO as he wanted to test it.  Well, Yahoo, in their infinite wisdom decides to cancel the account - which means everything gets cancelled.  No account - no domain.  No account - no name services.  So, I call Yahoo up and ask them what's going on?  They state, oh, when you cancel the account, we cancel it - there is no need for the services any more.  Huh?  What about the existing domain?  Oh - you're transferring it - those services are picked up by the gaining service provider.  Ok, so I call NSI.  They said, we can't touch it until it actually gets here.... See the cycle starting?    There is no way to do this with the way things are setup through Yahoo.  Normally (at least in my experience) the name services are left at the old provider until everything is configured at the new provider.  Then, and only then can\should the new provider move the name service to where they wish....  Geez !  It's not supposed to be this difficult.   So, now I'm w/o any services until NSI actually receives the confirmed registry key and propagates the name services.  Which, by the way, could be up to 7 days!!!!   How ridiculous is this... Damn! </rant> Posted Aug 17 2006, 01:43 PM by Anonymous with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Misc...

• Holy Guaccamole!

  As I’ve mentioned before – SPS totally rocks.  This article shows how to setup your own WebParts for RSS feeds.  It’s as easy as pie too! :-) This is exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned just how powerful SPS is.  You’re missing a lot if you haven’t at least looked at it. Posted Aug 02 2006, 09:38 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: Sharepoint Portal Stuff

• Exactly!!!

  Rod posted an article that conveys exactly what I was wrote about here.  Sharepoint Portal is an incredibly powerful environment.  We’re in the process of doing some really cool things and leveraging mobile technologies is right at the top of the list… Think about it… You have a portal for your users to collaborate on existing projects, what better way to keep them involved then to provide their mobile phones access.  Incredible!                                   Posted Aug 02 2006, 01:46 PM by Anonymous with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint Portal Stuff