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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:04 PM

Goofy Training, almost there!!!!!

This is the last full week of training before I head to Orlando.  My last double digit run was the 12 miles I did on Sunday and it felt great even though it was on a treadmill.  I have found out that through this training that I can do a lot
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:53 AM

Fun TED Video, who was General Tso, and why does it taste so yummy

I was checking this fun little video out of a talk delivered by Jennifer 8. Lee, and she talks about the mysteries of American Chinese Food.  I found out an interesting fact that in the United States there are more “Chinese” restaurants than there
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Monday, December 22, 2008 9:12 AM

Goofy Training Update --- Happy Holidays

So the only question I have this week is when should I run on Thursday, I have three choices: Wake up before the kids and get my run in early Wait until the kids crater around 3 and get the run in the afternoon Give myself a present and skip it My preference
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:26 AM

Unbelievable Moment from Texas Stadium High School Football 1994

As I was on the tread mill this morning I saw this highlight.  I remember hearing about this.  So here is the situation there is a 1:30 left and Plano East is down to John Tyler by 10.  The play by play call is priceless. So coach what
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Friday, December 19, 2008 4:25 PM

New SP1 for Data Protection Manager 2007

My buddy and fellow achievement point aficionado Jason just announced SP1 for DPM 2007 here: Why SP1 for DPM 2007 is cool   Here are some of the highlights for more information see the above link to Jason’s post. SQL Server now does 2008, can back
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:49 PM

IE December Out-of-Band Release Information and Webcasts

I just learned some more information and webcast links for security update MS08-078 that we released today.  This update addresses a new vulnerability allowing remote code execution in affected versions of Internet Explorer. MS08-078 has a maximum
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:33 PM

FREE Xbox Live Arcade Game: Dash of Destruction

I just discovered that Doritos is sponsoring a free game called Dash of Destruction for download. The game is quite fun and I am sure my kiddos love it.  The game is a fun little racing game. From the website:  Doritos' Dash of Destruction is
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:14 PM

MVP Contest Update and Results

As you may recall I announced a contest Keith and I were having for MVP’s and creating a  screencast that shows PHP integration with IIS.  Unfortunately we did not receive any entries. That's right, 0, nada, zilch and for you developers entries
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:16 AM

Holiday Gift Giving Guide a TV interview on Windows Mobile Devices

Every so often you watch a TV show and think I know that person.  Well My buddy Zain , and believe or not the person who hired me for my first job in Texas got a great chance to do an interview on a Fox news station in Houston.  He talked about
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:04 AM

Goofy Training Update --- Starting to taper the distance

4 weeks to go and somewhere along the line I messed up the math in calculating my weeks left for the run.  I am 4 weeks out but somehow I have only 3 weeks left on the plan I have been planning.  So what to do, well I will just run a good week
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Monday, December 15, 2008 11:09 AM

Windows FireStarter Event --- Recorded Webcasts

On December the 12 th (Friday) we had a Windows FireStarter event at the Microsoft Conference Center. If you are a Developer or an IT Pro and you missed this event, do not worry we recorded the sessions for you check them out via live meetings here: Why
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Saturday, December 13, 2008 9:40 AM

Cool New Download HealthVault for Windows Beta

I was checking some new downloads and I caught this beta for a program called HealthVault which seems to be a one stop shop for your health needs, I am going to take a look at this week and see how it all works but wanted to share it with you.  HealthVault
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Friday, December 12, 2008 8:56 AM

Holiday Gift Giving Guide --- A Digital Wonderland for your DVDs

Does anyone have a spare 10k that they want to lend me?  Well if you do then I can buy the Kaleidescape System .  This is a fantastic gadget that will allow me to digitize my 300 + DVD collection (Including the complete seasons of Buffy and
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:19 PM

Holiday Gift Giving --- Stay out of the dog house!

Tomorrow I will share a gift that will hopefully keep your loved ones out of your dog house, click on the picture to see what I mean:
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:07 PM

Goofy Training Update --- Home Stretch!

As of today I am one month away from the Goofy Challenge!  I am starting to get excited and the holidays are really kicking into swing.  The last 3 weeks of training have really flown by, except wed. of this week.  I can feel my body and
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:10 PM

How much Green can you save by being Virtualized?

I wanted to share with you our recently launched tool at www.hyper-green.com. The tool creates a report that will let you know the cost savings and CO2 reductions that can be made via Microsoft virtualization technologies.  These tools are designed
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:25 AM

Holiday Technology Gift Guide --- Keyboard for Blondes

Okay this was too good not to share, it had me ROFL,  Now I can post this one because I am blonde and I am thinking about buying one it is a full keyboard for about $50 US.  The Keyboard for Blondes is USB based and will run on Windows, Linux
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:29 AM

Do you want to get a Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD, attend a MDC and get one!

I was checking out, Chris Koenig blog, who is one of the developer evangelists I work with, and I saw this great post: Windows 7 Beta 1 for MDC Attendees!   In a nutshell all you need to do is attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:00 AM

Book of the Month December 2008: Lone Survivor

This book of the month was a book I read based on a recommendation by Keith and Kai .  The book:  Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell is an eye opening account about
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:25 PM

Comparison of Mobile Devices: TouchFLO 3D vs. Spb Mobile Shell

One of my regular attendees from the Louisville made a wonderful blog post comparing TouchFlo and Spd, he provides some interesting feedback and overall a good post. Take a look at the post here: TouchFLO 3D vs. Spb Mobile Shell - why I think Spb got
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Monday, December 01, 2008 10:42 AM

Goofy Training Update: Am I a Cheater?

Happy Monday and I am glad it is Monday.  Last weeks schedule was the hardest to date and I was able to get through it.  It was a total of 50 miles for the week with 30 of the miles on Saturday and Sunday but I made it!  Surprisingly my
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