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At DEC This Week

I'm heading downtown in a bit for DEC 2008 and will be around all week. Please do say stop by and say hello and join in the conversations if you're there! If you're looking for suggestions on local things I can try and help since I'm from Chicago too. Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 1:50 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments
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Site Fixed

I had some issues with the server this site is hosted on the last week of May/first week of June. Six weeks later I've finally gotten everything all fixed. I took the downtime as an oppurtunity to upgrade the software that runs this site and think Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:13 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Site Move/Upgrade

I decided to get a box, actually a virtual server over at www.bitshop.com . I'm in the process of getting that all squared away and working, and then I'm going to swing this site over, and hopefully in the process upgrade the blog software and get rid Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:09 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Exchange MOM MP Wizard Gotchas

When going through the configuration wizard for the Exchange Management Pack, there is an option to turn on mailflow monitoring. This facility allows MOM to test message transfer between mailbox servers and mail stores. If you chose the default option, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 9:11 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Nice Weather!

This weekend has been the first couple of nice days in several weeks. It's been a very very rainy May. At the moment, I'm laying in the hammock in my backyard writing code in the afternoon sun. The frame & keys on my Acer laptop is black, and the Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 06, 2004 4:45 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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When Blogging Backfires...

This past week's excitement at Payton has been a rather controversial blog entry posted by a student on her weblog. Quite a few students at Payton have weblogs at a site called Xanga.com which provides free blogs, and a variety of other community features Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:57 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Blasted SBC

So, SBC Ameritech disconnected the telephone line here (which powers the DSL line that runs this site) at 11:17 AM Central time). At around 8PM, the ADSL magically started working again, but, my telephone is still dead as a rock. SBC has acknowledged Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:50 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments
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Snow!

It was bloody snowing out in Chicago today. I guess it's that time of the year, but, heck, yesterday, it was 60 some odd degrees out (albeit I got sopped in the rain). Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2003 11:40 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Cubs Slaughter Marlins

The Cubs went fishing last night, and they ended up scoring twelve runs - to the Marlins three. Sammy Sosa hit a huge homerun some 495 feet - WOW! I'm looking forward to seeing if the cubs can do this a couple more times in Florida. Share this post: email Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:19 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Grr Cubs

The Cubs didn't quite manage tonight, after a game tying double home run by Sosa in the bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, they continued to 11 innings and lost by one. Perhaps tomorrow. Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:08 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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New Content Source

Well, I've got a new source of content: Interesting problems people Google for, click through to my blog, and don't find anything. It seems I have a couple of long posts with lots of tech keywords (my rant on ms blaster, and my introductory post). It Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:20 PM by Brian Desmond | 2 Comments

Popeyes Chicken

My little sister decided to procure a batch of Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits (with a side of coleslaw) for dinner this evening. The coleslaw was good. The chicken was decent, albeit dripping with grease. The hockey pucks err biscuits, however, are an Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 14, 2003 6:55 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments

Broken Watermain

Crazy city has a broken water main at the end of the block. There's a decent size hole there (about 10 feet long and 4 feet wide), and water is flowing rapidly from it. They dug this hole yesterday, presumably to fix something. All was well yesterday, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:43 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Amazing Windows Experience Tour

The other day, I put a note up about Microsoft's “Amazing Windows Experience” tour. They're rolling around the country with Loews pushing Windows XP, specifically the multimedia stuff it does. If you happen to live in/around one of the following cities, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:31 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Amazing Windows Experience Tour

If you happen to be in the Chicago area, Microsoft is hosting an event down at Navy Pier (in the lawn right in front of it) showcasing Windows XP & the multimedia features it has. I, and a number of other MVPs will be there today & tomorrow helping Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 02, 2003 11:30 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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