July 9, 2008
The first of my speaking engagements at Worldwide Partner Conference went smashingly well yesterday. That was the Windows Mobile keynote in room 372 BCEF talking about Mobility in Small and Medium Sized Businesses.
The room was full, and I don’t remember anyone leaving during the session at all. Despite the fact that my own Awesome Per Minute ratio was through the roof.
Of course, the reason the keynote went so well was totally thanks to the amazingly kickass job that Laura Johnson and Steve Doe did laying out the case for Mobility in small and medium-businesses.
I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to share Black Warrior Technology’s approach to Mobility and Windows Mobile in particular.
The second of my speaking engagements at Worldwide Partner Conference happens Thursday, July 10th, which is tomorrow, at 1:30p. It’ll be in room 382 ABC, which is the room across from the Green (Mobility) Lounge.
I’ll be speaking about specific examples of Black Warrior Technology’s approach to Mobility and Windows Mobile that have turned into huge wins for both our customers and our company.
Which, like the hokey-pokey, is REALLY what it’s all about!
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June 10, 2008
Trust me on this one.
NEVER make this setting change on a virtual machine…
Unless you really don’t care how it runs, or if it runs at all.
Or if you just want to see what it would be like to run Small Business Server with the processing equivalent of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum…
Kicking it old school. Word.
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May 23, 2008
Let me come right out and get this review over with in one sentence, for those of you who have important things to get done…
The new Indiana Jones movies TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY SUCKS!
Yep, I said it.
Don’t waste your money on this tired old gasbag of a movie.
In fact, I won’t waste your time going into the innumerable ways it sucks.
But I will tell you this…
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Oh-Who-Gives-A-Damn-Anyway makes Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom look like an Oscar-worthy MASTERPIECE by comparison.
Which I’m sure will make Kate Capshaw very happy.
Instead of telling you all the ways that the latest Indiana Jones delivers every cliche and hackneyed idea that has been put to film for the last 27 years…
Ever since Raiders of the Lost Ark basically kicked the ass of every action movie that had come before it, not to mention all that have come since…
I will instead share with you all the alternate titles I came up with while waiting for this pig of a movie to end tonight…
Raiders of the Aching Lumbago
Indiana Jones and the Search for the Golden Geritol
Indiana Jones Soils His Depends
Indiana Jones and the Last Sandwich (which he promptly gives to his anorexic girlfriend, Ally McBeal)
Indiana Jones and the Quest for Even More Special Effects
Indiana Jones and the Sequel of Doom
Raiders of the Last Nerve
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Gullible Viewers
Indiana Jones and The Final Sellout
Raiders of the Last Box-Office
Indiana Jones and the Lost Cliches
Raiders of My Last $10
Feel free to post up your own opinion, or alternate title suggestion.
But if you want my advice…
Wait for this piece of felgercarb to hit the video store.
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April 25, 2008
April’s Action Pack drop has just about the most new stuff I’ve ever seen from the mothership in any AP release.
Check this out…
Dynamics CRM 4.0 (all 3 of its users will be so happy)
Exchange Server 2007 Standard SP1
Accounting Professional 2008 (U.S. only. Everyone else can start their whining now)
OneCare Trial
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 64–bit
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Standard SP1
Server 2008 Standard (32–bit and 64–bit)
Vista Ultimate with SP1 (Woohoo! Don’t spend that single copy all in one place!)
Terminal Server 2008 CALs
I know what I’ll be busy doing here at the Funcave when all this finally arrives. Rolling the server up to Server 2008 and making the move to Hyper-V.
Nothing like the sweet sweet candy that is a completely virtual environment.
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April 9, 2008
AKA Best.Day.Evar
Today’s penultimate session for the 2007–2008 class of Leadership Tuscaloosa was…
How shall I put this?
TOTALLY FREAKIN AWESOME!
Big huge thanks to the local health and safety organizations who hosted us, including…
No, we didn’t get to fire any ordnance or discharge any rounds, but we got to see all of the following…
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A full walking tour of the county jail, including the maximum security wing
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Mobile command center
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Armored carrier for Special Response Team activities
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Bomb squad equipment, including robots
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Mobile forensic lab, including 360 degree laser imaging system for crime scene investigations
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Special Response Team (formerly called SWAT) equipment and tactics
We also got to…
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Perform emergency medical technician response for a simulated car accident
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Use a thermal imaging camera to pinpoint heat sources
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Put on a full suit of turnout gear, including a helmet, to…
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Work a fully energized firehose against a simulated fire target
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Simulate forced entry into a residence
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Field deploy a firehose (fully unrolled mine in a single toss, straight as an arrow…hella yeah!), then reroll for proper stowing
All while basking in today’s glorious 80 degree heat.
Did I say how FREAKIN AWESOME today was yet?
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