Today was a good day
I keep telling myself that today (yesterday actually) was a good day (Saturday, August 28th). I mean, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a pre-season game. Chelsea beat Stoke City 2-0, and the Phillies beat the Padres to stay in the chase for the payoffs. Plus, the...
Pinball – 1
Editorial note: The below description, notes, thoughts and feelings are described by Che, not me (Michael). Enjoy... I currently find myself in a bit of a quandary when it comes to my so-called “buddies”. I don’t really like any of them. I’m not sure when this...
NCAA Football Week 1 predictions
So I have a few wees before this has to be put out, but here is week 1. I'm not sure I'll keep track of EXACTLY if I win or lose, but I figured I'd put it down on paper and see what the numbers are at the end of the year. Again, here is week 1. Thursday, September 2...
NCAA 2010 College Football Schedule
The link is here. I will also post my thoughts on wins/losses for each school in the coming week or so.
Windows Security
In a security review of some Windows machines here at work, I ran across a good article about hacking, which included a video on using several good tools to validate security on your publicly facing windows machines, which require RDP (Remote Desktop / Terminal...
Classic ASP code for server variables and form variables
During my testing and working on something at work, I found some nice variable display info that can be used when trying to debug/troubleshoot some classic ASP code. Stuff I usually can't find when I need it. So I'm posting it here. <TABLE BORDER="1">...
Outlook 2007 Stationery Location
So when I first started using Outlook years ago, I never really liked the default stationery that people used. I'm sure some of you remember how some of these things looked. Like this one... I hated those. So I was always a 'text' guy. As the years went on, I...
AT&T is getting on my nerves
So to complicate an already f'ed up situation with AT&T, they have an outage today (7/21/2010) that started around 9AM ET and has gone to at least 2PM (as of now). So, it may be time to start looking at new providers if this keeps up.
Chain of events
So everybody is up in arms about this "chain of events" at this year's Tour de France in that Contador didn't wait for his rival, Andy Schleck, when Schleck's chain came off after an attack towards the end of Stage 15. In the long run, it probably won't mean very...
Securing a WordPress 3.0 site
Ensure you have the most recent version Upgrading to the version 3.0 (as of the date of this article) will address many security vulnerabilities, including the protection of your wp-content/plugins directory, and your wp-admin folder. These directories in 2.x...