Blog Exchange

Often times, Microsoft gives multiple ways of accomplishing a task. In the early days of computing this was quite an "innovative" idea. Old DOS (TTY) software was plain text with a menu, and to accomplish a process required a certain precise set of steps.

Today, we no longer live in a "menu driven" world, this has it's benefits and it's liabilities and Microsoft Office / Sharepoint integration is no exception to this rule.

This tutorial is designed for people who use Microsoft Office and Microsoft Sharepoint and who want to make the most of a "Meeting Workspace"

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Are you using encrypted "WPA" wireless networks? If you are one of those types who cares about your data and it being stolen. Someone who would not like their internet hacked and their banking information sold, you *might* find this article interesting.

AirTight security beleives to have found a crack in WPA2 security, but is it really a big deal? Get the facts and find out if you are indeed safe...

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It took me quite a while to get this all worked out. So once i figured it out I figured I should document it for prosperities sake.

IMAPSYNC is a cool tool that let's you sync folders between 2 IMAP style mailboxes. If you use Ubuntu (and why don't you?). You can get it from apt-get with this command

sudo apt-get install imapsync

The syntax is fairly straight forward, until you want to sync with a "Yahoo" IMAP server, because the Yahoo server has a few 'tricks'.

So to make it easy just grab a copy of this perl script

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Easliy, One of my favorite commercials of all time!

"It's night time in a kitchen just like yours; all is quiet, or is it?"

"The North American house hippo is found throughout Canada and the Eastern United States. House hippos are very timid creatures and they are rarely seen, but they will defend their territory if provoked. They come out at night to search for food, water, and materials for their nests."

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In economics we learn about the basic law of “supply” and “demand”.

The unemployment rate is based on the availability to work and the need of work in a given area. Let’s examine this a bit further. Does it all make sense?

Have you ever stopped to consider what
the world would be like, if our unemployment rate was 0%?

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So at my current job, I have to keep track of a LOT of passwords, the rules for picking a password are pretty complex, AND we are not allowed to use a password more then once. Plus we have to keep our passwords changed at least once every 45 days. I call it a "password change day" because it is conveniently one day after I just became able to remember my password without having to look it up!

Recently, our company recommended a free tool called "Password Safe" (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/)

I have only been using it for about 4 days now, but this program is simply AMAZING. And I highly recommend it for keeping track of all your online passwords.

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Who Moved My Cheese, is an excellent book by Spenser Johnson, MD. It is also available in a short movie format, which is how I orginally found out about it.

This is a story about change, and focus's on 2 mice, Hem and Haw, each of which re-act to change in very different ways.

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