New! Improved! Now with inline hyperlinks!¹

• Thieves!
• For some reason this makes me nervous about spec'ing out anything... (via http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/06/01/bug-psychology.aspx)
• Some people might consider my apartment bad, but this is ridiculous (note: "some people" are wrong in this case; my apartment has its electronic contents nicely organized).
• Apparently all I need to do to shed the whole nerd/geek image & become "cool" is go blow stuff up & walk away. Umm...sure...
• Mmmmm...doughnuts...
• Fun with locks! (yes Emil, you have a long ways to go with your bump keys) (via http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/locks_arent_really_effective/)
• -dsr-'s comment is hilarious (read the post first of course)
• Having this many email accounts actually isn't that impressive if you know a little about Exchange 2007 & Windows PowerShell...such as:
  for($i = 0; $i –lt 6000; $i += 1)
  {
  new-mailbox -UserPrincipalName "Me$i@ntldr.net" -alias "Me$i" -name "Me$i" -database "Storage Group 1\Mailbox Database 1" -OrganizationalUnit 'examples' -DisplayName "Me $i" -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $true
  }
  (warning: for the kids following along at home, I don't actually have an Exchange Server anymore, so I haven't tested that command. and even if it's error free, why would you want 6000 accounts?!)
• Interested in Bing? Wondering how good the results are? Someone set up an interesting comparison site. (via http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090607/bing-vs-google-vs-yahoo-blind-search-engine-test/)

 

Extra special bonus feature:

So I got the following email message from my mom last week:

See your Mom on YouTube!!

and was immediately filled with a weird curiosity and a sick terror wondering if this was somehow going to be one of those horribly embarrassing videos where people just do stupid things (& (usually) get hurt). Fortunately it was just moderately embarrassing and for work. :P So I'll share my link love (rofl! hahaha...like that's worth anything...I've seen how many pages down into the search results some visitors have had to go to finally stumble across this site!), and everyone can check it out: http://www.youtube.com/tcpllibrary

Extra, extra special bonus feature:

So, there's been a bit of speculation lately about why I blog (& why it's increased lately). The general consensus amongst other people seemed to be that it's because I'm lonely & am seeking attention. LOL! Duh, it's a blog. That's like saying the sky is blue because of light's refraction through the atmosphere. ...err... maybe not quite that metaphor. Whatever...was going more for the whole "that's the way it works because that's what it means to be that" thing... (actually, there was a bunch of additional context around the whole question that makes it interesting, but I'm trying to avoid the whole emo-teen-agnst-livejournal vibe because I'm a mature technology professional maintaining a professional Internet self-marketing presence (haha...okay, so really I'm just too lazy to create & install a black-text-on-black-background DasBlog theme :P))

¹ Rose Festival/Fleet Week 2009 pictures coming later this week...or next...hopefully I'll be more punctual with this year's photos than I've been in previous years.

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