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What a great couple of days its been if you’re a college football fan and follow the Big 12.  It all started Friday afternoon with a sloppy but miraculous Nebraska win off a 57 yard field goal with less than two minutes to play.  I thought Nebraska would roll but they were slow getting out […]

I gotta wake my ass up at 6:00 a.m. every day this week, drag up to Las Colindas. Yeah, I’m doin’ the drywall up there at the new McDonald’s.  –Lawrence in Office Space
That’s how my day after started with a call from work at 6:30 this morning.  Might as well get my Husker pick out of […]

Its after midnight here in the plains and I just got the bird soaking a brine bath.  After about 13 hours of soaking I’m gonna smoke that bad boy at about 250 to 275 degrees.  Its gonna be in the low 50s tomorrow with light winds so it should be a good day for smoking.
Ol’ […]

Tough to believe that Thanksgiving is upon us already.  I was in Sioux City, IA this past weekend to see The Nadas (along with Fat Andy).  Both bands put on a very good show.  It was the first time I had seen Fat Andy and probably the 30th time I’ve seen The Nadas.  I heard a […]

I’m up north this weekend and woke up to three inches of snow this morning.  I was not prepared for that.  With the Huskers off this weekend I’ll give a pick on the big game of the day.  Texas Tech at Oklahoma.  Big Game Bob is giving 7 points on this and I think he […]

Today while referring to something I have written about on BITW I said “I bump’d about it.” 
Embarrassing.  I will now go hang my head in shame.

How long has Windows Server 2008 been out?  Since late February or early March if memory serves me correctly.  Until today I haven’t had much reason to look at it much.  Today that changed though.  When somebody starts throwing around the need for Itanium servers in a SMB my ears perk up.  Thinking this was just a […]

I’ve been on a mini hot streak going back to Friday when it comes to solving little nagging problems around the work place.  It started with McAfee Groupshield notifications not working.  Got that working.  Then came a little networking issue involving tagged and untagged port configuration on a switch.  Got that working.  Then tonight I […]

This is a first for me.  I’ve somehow managed to go this far in my “career life” without being able to have a major beef against the tyranny known as Microsoft. Today, I formally proclaim my dissatisfaction with a MS decision.  Maybe I’m late to the party.  Maybe I’ve had to much to drink.  I don’t […]

Perhaps we were ahead of the curve.  Maybe we had a little to much “Lewis and Clark” in us.  It appears that our dream of putting network access control in front of our Citrix servers has come up against a rather large obstacle.  Our understanding of how virtual IPs within Presentaton Server worked was not quite […]