Go Scarlet Knights!
I never thought I’d see the day. Rutgers football having a winning season? It was but a common joke on campus (the football team that is). But what do you know? It turns out that Rutgers is now #23 on...
Monthly Archive: September 2006
On Leadership and Teamwork
A great quote by Joe Torre I came across in an article on A-Rod’s recent struggle: “What Jason said made me realize that I had to go at it a different way,” Torre says. “When the rest of the team...
Try OpenDNS
So I came across OpenDNS somehow last night and read about the service that they provide. From my days as a CS major, I was familiar with the high level workings of the DNS infrastructure and OpenDNS’s explanation, at least...
More Exmplary Craftsmanship
Awesome…simply awesome: paper cutout art. Jawdropping even. More here. From the creator: I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it probably still is the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today,...
Workflow and SharePoint
Good stuff. Good freaking stuff. If you haven’t done so already, there’s an excellent high level white paper by David Chappell that you should download (if you work with such things like Office and SharePoint) which provides important information so...
Grow Up…
Warning: strong language ahead… So I’m attending this webcast on Microsoft Project Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh and I can’t believe the stupid motherfuckers on the call who: Can’t mute their god-damned phones. Can’t leave the screen alone so...
Talk About Ridiculous…
So it looks like the EU is trying to pick Microsoft’s pocket again. The EU is up in fits about Microsoft’s inclusion of security features such as Windows Firewall and warns Microsoft that inclusion of such features would bring further...
Remembering September 11, 2001
I don’t want to get all mushy here and get too deep into this historic event. I remember being awoken by my girlfriend then (now wife) with a frantic call to turn on the TV after the first plane had...
This Sounds….
Pretty freaking awesome, actually: A half-mile below the surface of the New Mexico desert, the federal government is interring thousands of tons of monstrously dangerous leftovers from its nuclear weapons program –plutonium-infested clothing, tools and chemical sludge that will remain...
The Woes of Beta Software
There’s always a “cool-factor” invovled with working with beta software and trying the latest products out before anyone else. It’s definitely quite exciting to see some of the new features of Office 2007 in action and actually dig into Project...