I recently came across a weird error with a parnter that we’re working with. He was getting SSPI errors at the the client side. I had seen these previously, but only when configuring SharePoint and our product (FirstPoint) for Kerberos....
In short: don’t do it to yourself! Okay, so that’s not a realistic solution. But you know what? It is a pain in the butt. Terrible. Teeeeeeerrible. I’ve spent the last two days battling Kerberos, Active Directory, and NLB trying...
There’s a pretty fascinating article over at Portfolio.com by Michael Lewis fittingly titled The End which gives insight into the grimey details of how the collapse of our seemingly infallible financial markets came to be. Contrary to the right-wing nuttery that...
One of my favorite quotes from the news coverage: “[Barack Obama] is the first 21st century president.” – Chuck Todd, MSNBC What our peers across the pond think: They did it. They really did it. So often crudely caricatured by...
That the election was only about 6 percentage points apart in the popular vote speaks volumes about the general stupidity of a large portion of the population and the movement towards anti-intellectualism over the last 8 years. But thank goodness...
This time, from Alaska’s own Anchorage Daily News: Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool,...
I played the game for about 6-7 hours yesterday. I wasn’t immediately smitten with it, but once I got into it, I couldn’t put it down. I was thinking about it this morning as I was taking a shower and...
Yesterday at dinner, a coworker brought up the election and my support for Obama. The conversation started something like: “So I can’t believe you’re voting for Obama.” It diverged into various topics from healthcare to gun control to experience to socialism. It...
Not that these things mean much in the big picture, but it’s interesting to see the sentiment around the country. Notably, the Salt Lake Tribune (of all newspapers): A simple choice: The nation needs Barack Obama in the White HouseOver...
If we’ve learned nothing else about Obama through this campaign and the debates, it’s that his is a mind that is always on level ground. Through all of the ups and downs of the campaign, through all of the attacks aimed...