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  Dan 5:01 pm on March 17, 2010 | 4 | # |
  

  So I’ve done the unthinkable. I have Windows 7 64-bit as my primary OS and Ubuntu Linux booting up in a VM. My reason for switching was business related and had nothing to do with OS preference. My Reasons:

  • I’m going to begin deploying some Exchange/Sharepoint solutions on our network and wanted to see how it really affects our end users.
  • I need to do some page layout over the next months and Linux does not have a good solution for this.

  So my Windows 7 OS runs my mail and all tasks and I have Linux now solely as my development center. I’m working on a write up of the difficulties moving from Linux back to Windows 7 as well as the positives.

  The one real nasty aspect of moving to Windows 7 is my bluetooth doesn’t work. I’ve tried everything outside of installing the 30-day trial Toshiba BT Stack to no avail. I can’t get any of my bluetooth devices to properly connect. I’m runing on an Asus G1S so if anyone has ideas of how to get bluetooth running properly. LMK.

  And a rant against ASUS, for a laptop that came with Windows Vista, and was for gamers/high end users it seems logical to release Windows 7 drivers!!!

   

• Dan 10:11 pm on June 27, 2009 | 1 | # |
  

  When dropping off our daily mail run at a local Post Office, I was duly informed by the clerk that I had to change the window envelope style to a landscape stype with the window in the middle of the envelope. (Ours is portrait with the window near the top left of the envelope — pretty common.)

  I asked her if this was something new that just started and if she had any flyers or literature that would address this issue. The conversation became quite interesting:

  Clerk: “That requirement has been around for years, we use machines to read the address.”

  Me: “So do you have any flyers that state that the way I’m doing it is wrong?”

  Clerk: “No it’s just we prefer it the other way”

  Me: “So you won’t accept my mail if it’s not dead center and landscape oriented?”

  Clerk: “We just prefer it as it makes our job easier”

  Me: “So what you are saying is since you don’t want to manually sort my mail I need to redo all my envelopes and receipts? If you give me something from the USPS that I have to change it I will but not for convenience sake that’s what I pay for.”

  Clerk: “I don’t want to have this conversation anymore”

  You can probably deduct my opinion, without me ranting.

   

• Dan 11:31 pm on June 20, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: politics, tragic

  While reading about the events going on Iran, I was disheartened at the potential for loss of life in the current atmosphere.

  An event like this becomes so important in people’s minds to the point that we forget about those around the world fighting & dying for a myriad of causes. Loss of life continues to happen all around us and some of it you never hear about, or even worse grow numb to hearing about over and over again. (When’s the last time you noted the death toll from a suicide bombing in Iraq?)

  I was reminded of the following song written by Michael Fogarty and Chris Jung, and sung by Marianna Buhring. No matter what circumstances a life that is snuffed out, is a loss for someone.

  Not Just One Life

  Song © 2009 Aurora Productions. Used by permission.

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• Dan 9:29 pm on June 13, 2009 | 3 | # |
  

  Went to a local Thai food restaurant with my wife today for lunch. I ordered Gang Keo Wan (Green Curry). I ordered it to be the spiciest they serve. I was a little disappointed when they brought my curry with dried red chilli flakes all over it. I would have expected a fresh green chilli to add extra spice.

  On the other side of the spectrum, when I was in Seattle for SMX Advanced, I had some great curry at a small Thai restaurant called Buddha Bell – not far from Bell Harbor International Conference Center. Highly recommended.

   

• Dan 9:07 am on June 5, 2009 | 1 | # |
  

  Reasons:

  • Terrible uptime
  • Ticket / Support time can exceed days
  • When you try to close an account with them – they won’t close it until you get nasty with them on the phone.

  The real kicker though is when I asked them to please send me a letter in writing stating that my accounts had been closed. I received an envelope in the mail with a sticky note stating my accounts had been closed. Wasn’t even signed.

  6 months later I’m on the phone with them again, trying to cancel our account, apparently I didn’t specify this one!!!

   

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