Miss California Responds to Question on Same-Sex Marriage
I think her answer was so stupid it actually gave me cancer.
Miss California Responds to Question on Same-Sex Marriage
I think her answer was so stupid it actually gave me cancer.
Categories: General Life · Humor · Stupid People
Before I get up on a soap box here and shake my fist in anger, I’d like to show everyone of the following clip:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M – Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Baracknophobia – Obey | ||||
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I’d also like to go back to the winter of 2001, and remind everyone who feels as if though they are now in the minority and being robbed of their civil liberties of your reaction to anyone who opposed the Bush administration. I’d like you to think back to that time, to the height of post-9/11 fervor, and try to imagine for a moment what your reaction would have been to me telling you “I hope the president fails. I oppose his policies, and I hope he fails in protecting us. There’s nothing wrong with me saying that, it’s my constitutional right and I hope he fails to prevent further attacks. If Al Gore had been elected, we’d be safer now.” Just remember, no matter how self-righteous you are, you don’t always get to be in the top stall of the outhouse.
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I know I’m a few days late with this, but it still makes me smile every time I think of it.
Just to make sure that we’re covering all the bases:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M – Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Tempest in a Tea Party | ||||
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| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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Categories: General Life · Humor · Politics · Stupid People
Tagged: bush, colbert report, daily show, fair and balanced, fox news, obama, olberman, outrage, protest, taxes, teabagging, whining
TechNet Plus, (download only, not the kind where they ship you DVDs,) from Microsoft usually runs $349 to sign up for a year, then $249 per year after that. A friend of mine shot me an email today for a $100 dicount on a subscription. I’m not sure if it’s part of a special event or it’s simply a discount code for the sake of signing up new customers, but it’s a great opportunity to save some money and pick up just about every piece of software Microsoft makes. Keep in mind, this not only includes the software that is out now, but any new software that’s eligible for TechNet, as well as updates to things like Office or Windows, (think Office 2010 and Windows 7). Sadly, developer-tools like Visual Studio are not included in TechNet since they are considered to be under the MSDN umbrella. This is good for a new subscription only, not renewals.
The subscription page can be found here.
Select Microsoft TechNet Plus Direct Subscription, enter the promo code TW7OBA in the field that reads If you have a Promotion Code, please enter it here and then hit the button to go to the next page. Enjoy!
Categories: Certification · Geeky · General IT · LinkedIn · MCSE · MCTS · Work
Tagged: discount, downloads, Microsoft, office, promotion, software, subscription, technet, vista, windows, Windows 7, xp
Categories: Certification · General IT · LinkedIn · MCSE · MCTS · Work
Tagged: 2010, beta, exchange, exchange 2010, mail, Microsoft, office, outlook, server
Microsoft has announced that April 27th will be the day that they make the Windows 7 beta exam open to the public. This will be a similar exam to 70-620 which focuses on configuring Vista, and 70-270 which is all about Windows XP Pro. No news yet if the Windows 7 exam will count towards MCSA/MCSE, but you’d better believe that it’ll count towards MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. You will obtain a stand-alone Technology Specialist (TS) designation with the exam, just as with other next-generation Microsoft exams. For some documentation, take a look at the Windows 7 Technical Library Roadmap. For a good discussion on the ins and outs of the exam check out the dedicated thread on TechExams.net.
Register with Prometric starting April 27th. The actual testing window is from May 5th – May 18th. Oh, and you have to use promo code WIN7J in order to sign up for the exam.
Also, today is National High-Five Day.
Categories: Certification · Geeky · General IT · LinkedIn · MCSE · MCTS · Work
Tagged: admin, beta, configuring, exam, helpdesk, IT, MCITP, MCSA, MCTS, Microsoft, professional, study, sysadmin, systems administrator, test, TS, Windows 7
One of four titles used to classify someone based on their technical and social skills. The other three titles are nerd, dork, and normie. The difference between the four titles can be easily shown in table form:
……………..Technical ……. Social
Title ……… Skills …………. Skills
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Normie …….. No ………….. Yes
Geek ……….. Yes …………. Yes
Nerd ……….. Yes …………. No
Dork ……….. No ………….. No
Normie: A normal person. Blah.
Geek: An outwardly normal person who has taken the time to learn technical skills. Geeks have as normal a social life as anyone, and usually the only way to tell if someone is a geek is if they inform you of their skills.
Nerd: A socially awkward person who has learned technical skills due to the spare time they enjoy from being generally neglected. Their technical knowledge then leads normies to neglect them even further, leading to more development of their technical skills, more neglection, etc. This vicious cycle drives them even more into social oblivion.
Dork: A person who, although also socially awkward, doesn’t have the intelligence to fill the void with technical pursuits, like a nerd, and is forced to do mindless activities. Almost always alone. Usually with an XBox. Like playing Halo. All day. Every day. Not even understanding how the Xbox is making the pretty pictures on the screen. Very sad.
Microsoft has started giving away SharePoint Designer (formerly FrontPage) for free. It makes sense, seeing as how Windows SharePoint Services can be downloaded and installed for free as well.
You can download SharePoint Designer 2007 here.
Categories: Geeky · General IT · LinkedIn · Work
Tagged: asp, asp.net, content management, css, frontpage, html, Microsoft, moss, search, sharepoint, sharepoint server, web services
Since this is available to everyone, I felt that I should share. The following is a link to IBM’s voucher for free admittance to the expo floor of the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, running from April 20th until April 24th.
Free Expo Pass – Be IBM’s Guest
You have to sign up before April 17th to redeem the freebie.
Categories: CCIE · CCNP · Certification · Geeky · General IT · LinkedIn · MCSE · MCTS · Work
Tagged: Cisco, CISSP, encryption, firewall, IBM, malware, Microsoft, Moscone, RSA, security, spyware, virus