Yesterday we bought a new TV. Our old rear projection 55" Mitsubishi gave up the ghost and moving the old 32" Sanyo CRT from the exercise room would have not been fun (to get it out of the room I have to remove the door). We ended up buying a Panasonic TC-P46U1 (46" plasma).
Now to my question, why is "everyone" obsessed with HD and surround sound. I have watched HDTV at my son's, my sister's and my wife's brother's houses (with surround sound) and, while I can see/hear and enjoy the difference, I utterly stop noticing any difference at 5-10 minutes. You see, I'm watching a show/movie/game, not a TV screen. I don't spend my time watching something on the television and thinking, "Wow! I bet that woman has 100,000 hairs on her head and I can count every one of them." The sound issue is the similar; why do I need to hear the footsteps behind me of someone walking on to a screen in front of me.
Now, don't get me wrong. I can see certain uses for HDTV where I would enjoy the sharpness. Rewinding sporting events or shows to see something you missed does work very well in HD (especially an official's missed call). Concerts obviously would sound better with Surround Sound. I just can't justify the money.
Now don't get me started on Blu-ray.
Oh yeah, the TV rocks, even without an HD signal. The colors are fantastic and you can see the picture well from any angle.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Demotivators from despair.com
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
You can fool all of the people all of the time if your effects budget is large enough.
ACHIEVEMENT
You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.
ADVERSITY
That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
AGONY
Not all pain is gain.
AMBITION
The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly
APATHY
If we don't take care of the customer,maybe they'll stop bugging us.
ARROGANCE
The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.
BAILOUTS
From each according to his ability,
BEAUTY
If you're attractive enough on the outside, people will forgive you for being irritating to the core.
BITTERNESS
Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world, because there's nothing the world loves more than the taste of really sweet dreams.
BLAME
The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.
BLOGGING
Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.
BURNOUT
Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.
CHALLENGES
I expected times like this - but I never thought they'd be so bad, so long, and so frequent.
CHANGE
When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles.
CLUELESSNESS
There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.
COMPROMISE
Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.
CONFORMITY
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
CONSISTENCY
It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup.
CONSULTING
If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
CORRUPTION
I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it.
Creativity
Helps artists die young, miserable, and penniless- so their art can have meaning to the old, satisfied, and obscenely rich.
CURIOSITY
Some Places Remain Unknown Because No One Has Ventured Forth. Others Remain So Because No One Has Ever Come Back.
CUSTOMER CARE
If we really care for the customer we'd send them somewhere better.
CUSTOMER DISSERVICE
Because we're not satisfied until you're not satisfied.
DARE TO SLACK
When birds fly in the right formation, they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness.
DEFEAT
For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.
DELUSIONS
There is no greater joy than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality.
DEMOTIVATION
Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people.
DESPAIR
It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
DESTINY
You were meant for me. Perhaps as a punishment.
DISCOVERY
A company that will go to the ends of the Earth for its people will find it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans.
DISLOYALTY
There comes a time when every team must learn to make individual sacrifices.
DISSERVICE
It takes months to find a customer, but only seconds to lose one... the good news is that we should run out of them in no time.
DO IT LATER
The early worm is for the birds.
DOUBT
In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world.
DREAMS
Dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them.
DYSFUNCTION
The only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you.
Economics
The science of explaining tomorrow why the predictions you made yesterday didn't come true today.
EFFORT
Hard work never killed anybody, but it is illegal in some places.
ELITISM
It's lonely at the top, but it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.
FAILURE
When your best just isn't good enough.
FEAR
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea
FLATTERY
If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.
FUTILITY
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take, and, statistically speaking, 99% of the shots you do.
GET TO WORK
You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.
GIVE UP
At some point, hanging in there just makes you look like an even bigger loser.
GOALS
It's best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals.
GOVERNMENT
If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.
HAZARDS
There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.
HOPE
May not be warranted at this point.
HUMILIATION
The harder you try, the dumber you look.
IDIOCY
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
IGNORANCE
It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they're going.
INCOMPETENCE
When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.
INDIFFERENCE
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.
INDIVIDUALITY
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else.
INEPTITUDE
If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.
INNOVATION
If it can make your job easier, it can probably make it irrelevant.
INSANITY
It's difficult to comprehend how insane some people can be. Especially when you're insane.
INSPIRATION
Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99% perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad.
INTIMIDATION
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent, but you'd be a fool to withhold that from your superiors.
IRRESPONSIBILITY
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.
LAZINESS
Success is a journey, not a destination. So stop running.
LEADERS
Leaders are like eagles. We don't have either of them here.
LIMITATIONS
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.
LONELINESS
If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
LOSING
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
MADNESS
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?"
MARKETING
Because making it look good now is more important than providing adequate support later.
MEDIOCRITY
It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late.
MEETINGS
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
MISFORTUNE
While good fortune often eludes you, this kind never misses.
MISTAKES
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
MOTIVATION
If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
NEPOTISM
We promote family values here - almost as often as we promote family members.
OPPORTUNITY
I am Dr. Adewole Aremu- a director with the Union Bank of Nigeria in Lagos - and I wish to speak to you most urgently about a matter regarding the sum of $39,000,000 US Dollars...
OVERCONFIDENCE
Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.
PERSEVERANCE
The courage to ignore the obvious wisdom of turning back.
PERSISTENCE
It's over, man. Let her go.
PERSPECTIVE
Less is more. Unless you're standing next to the one with more. Then less just looks pathetic.
PESSIMISM
Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.
PLANNING
Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total failure to make any progress.
POSSIBILITIES
With focus, dedication and steroids, men can achieve impossible dreams. Like breaking a world record. Or growing their own breasts.
POTENTIAL
Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.
POWER
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.
PRESSURE
It can turn a lump of coal into a flawless diamond, or an average person into a perfect basketcase.
PRETENSION
The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
PRIORITIES
Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.
PROBLEMS
No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them
PROCRASTINATION
Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.
PROPAGANDA
What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies right to our faces.
QUALITY
The race for quality has no finish line- so technically, it's more like a death march.
RECOVERY
Time heals all wounds. But it usually leaves a pretty big scar.
REGRET
It hurts to admit when you make mistakes - but when they're big enough, the pain only lasts a second
RETIREMENT
Because you've given so much of yourself to the company that you don't have anything left we can use.
RISKS
If you never try anything new, you'll miss out on many of life's great disappointments.
ROMANCE
Love is in the air. And it's pooping on my head.
SACRIFICE
Your role may be thankless, but if you're willing to give it your all, you just might bring success to those who outlast you.
SACRIFICE
All we ask here is that you give us your heart.
SANITY
Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can borrow mine.
SELF-ESTEEM
Just because you think you're a star doesn't mean you're going anywhere.
SERVICE
View all customers as beautiful buds that must be cultivated, watered, and periodically buried under manure.
STRIFE
As long as we have each other, we'll never run out of problems.
STUPIDITY
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
SUCCESS
Some people dream of success, while other people live to crush those dreams.
SURVIVAL
The less you stand out, the longer you'll last.
TEAMWORK
A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
TRADITION
Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.
TROUBLE
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
UNDERACHIEVEMENT
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower.
VICTORY
Winners never fly higher than when they're bouncing up and down on the egos of those they defeat.
VISION
How can the future be so hard to predict when all of my worst fears keep coming true?
WHINING
If you expect to score points by whining, join a European soccer team.
WINNERS
Because nothing says "you're a loser" more than owning a motivational poster about being a winner.
WISHES
When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.
WORTH
Just because you're necessary doesn't mean you're important.
You can fool all of the people all of the time if your effects budget is large enough.
ACHIEVEMENT
You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.
ADVERSITY
That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
AGONY
Not all pain is gain.
AMBITION
The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly
APATHY
If we don't take care of the customer,maybe they'll stop bugging us.
ARROGANCE
The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.
BAILOUTS
From each according to his ability,
BEAUTY
If you're attractive enough on the outside, people will forgive you for being irritating to the core.
BITTERNESS
Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world, because there's nothing the world loves more than the taste of really sweet dreams.
BLAME
The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.
BLOGGING
Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.
BURNOUT
Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.
CHALLENGES
I expected times like this - but I never thought they'd be so bad, so long, and so frequent.
CHANGE
When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles.
CLUELESSNESS
There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.
COMPROMISE
Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.
CONFORMITY
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
CONSISTENCY
It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup.
CONSULTING
If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
CORRUPTION
I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it.
Creativity
Helps artists die young, miserable, and penniless- so their art can have meaning to the old, satisfied, and obscenely rich.
CURIOSITY
Some Places Remain Unknown Because No One Has Ventured Forth. Others Remain So Because No One Has Ever Come Back.
CUSTOMER CARE
If we really care for the customer we'd send them somewhere better.
CUSTOMER DISSERVICE
Because we're not satisfied until you're not satisfied.
DARE TO SLACK
When birds fly in the right formation, they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness.
DEFEAT
For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.
DELUSIONS
There is no greater joy than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality.
DEMOTIVATION
Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people.
DESPAIR
It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
DESTINY
You were meant for me. Perhaps as a punishment.
DISCOVERY
A company that will go to the ends of the Earth for its people will find it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans.
DISLOYALTY
There comes a time when every team must learn to make individual sacrifices.
DISSERVICE
It takes months to find a customer, but only seconds to lose one... the good news is that we should run out of them in no time.
DO IT LATER
The early worm is for the birds.
DOUBT
In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world.
DREAMS
Dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them.
DYSFUNCTION
The only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you.
Economics
The science of explaining tomorrow why the predictions you made yesterday didn't come true today.
EFFORT
Hard work never killed anybody, but it is illegal in some places.
ELITISM
It's lonely at the top, but it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.
FAILURE
When your best just isn't good enough.
FEAR
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea
FLATTERY
If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.
FUTILITY
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take, and, statistically speaking, 99% of the shots you do.
GET TO WORK
You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.
GIVE UP
At some point, hanging in there just makes you look like an even bigger loser.
GOALS
It's best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals.
GOVERNMENT
If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.
HAZARDS
There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.
HOPE
May not be warranted at this point.
HUMILIATION
The harder you try, the dumber you look.
IDIOCY
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
IGNORANCE
It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they're going.
INCOMPETENCE
When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.
INDIFFERENCE
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.
INDIVIDUALITY
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else.
INEPTITUDE
If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.
INNOVATION
If it can make your job easier, it can probably make it irrelevant.
INSANITY
It's difficult to comprehend how insane some people can be. Especially when you're insane.
INSPIRATION
Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99% perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad.
INTIMIDATION
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent, but you'd be a fool to withhold that from your superiors.
IRRESPONSIBILITY
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.
LAZINESS
Success is a journey, not a destination. So stop running.
LEADERS
Leaders are like eagles. We don't have either of them here.
LIMITATIONS
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.
LONELINESS
If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
LOSING
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
MADNESS
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?"
MARKETING
Because making it look good now is more important than providing adequate support later.
MEDIOCRITY
It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late.
MEETINGS
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
MISFORTUNE
While good fortune often eludes you, this kind never misses.
MISTAKES
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
MOTIVATION
If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
NEPOTISM
We promote family values here - almost as often as we promote family members.
OPPORTUNITY
I am Dr. Adewole Aremu- a director with the Union Bank of Nigeria in Lagos - and I wish to speak to you most urgently about a matter regarding the sum of $39,000,000 US Dollars...
OVERCONFIDENCE
Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.
PERSEVERANCE
The courage to ignore the obvious wisdom of turning back.
PERSISTENCE
It's over, man. Let her go.
PERSPECTIVE
Less is more. Unless you're standing next to the one with more. Then less just looks pathetic.
PESSIMISM
Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.
PLANNING
Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total failure to make any progress.
POSSIBILITIES
With focus, dedication and steroids, men can achieve impossible dreams. Like breaking a world record. Or growing their own breasts.
POTENTIAL
Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.
POWER
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.
PRESSURE
It can turn a lump of coal into a flawless diamond, or an average person into a perfect basketcase.
PRETENSION
The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
PRIORITIES
Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.
PROBLEMS
No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them
PROCRASTINATION
Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.
PROPAGANDA
What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies right to our faces.
QUALITY
The race for quality has no finish line- so technically, it's more like a death march.
RECOVERY
Time heals all wounds. But it usually leaves a pretty big scar.
REGRET
It hurts to admit when you make mistakes - but when they're big enough, the pain only lasts a second
RETIREMENT
Because you've given so much of yourself to the company that you don't have anything left we can use.
RISKS
If you never try anything new, you'll miss out on many of life's great disappointments.
ROMANCE
Love is in the air. And it's pooping on my head.
SACRIFICE
Your role may be thankless, but if you're willing to give it your all, you just might bring success to those who outlast you.
SACRIFICE
All we ask here is that you give us your heart.
SANITY
Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can borrow mine.
SELF-ESTEEM
Just because you think you're a star doesn't mean you're going anywhere.
SERVICE
View all customers as beautiful buds that must be cultivated, watered, and periodically buried under manure.
STRIFE
As long as we have each other, we'll never run out of problems.
STUPIDITY
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
SUCCESS
Some people dream of success, while other people live to crush those dreams.
SURVIVAL
The less you stand out, the longer you'll last.
TEAMWORK
A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
TRADITION
Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.
TROUBLE
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
UNDERACHIEVEMENT
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower.
VICTORY
Winners never fly higher than when they're bouncing up and down on the egos of those they defeat.
VISION
How can the future be so hard to predict when all of my worst fears keep coming true?
WHINING
If you expect to score points by whining, join a European soccer team.
WINNERS
Because nothing says "you're a loser" more than owning a motivational poster about being a winner.
WISHES
When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.
WORTH
Just because you're necessary doesn't mean you're important.
I've always had an issue in my Family Tree. My grandmother (Billie Delora Crane Preston) told me, back when I was a kid starting my interest in genealogy, that her maternal grandparents were John Coleman Miller and Kate Hays. The only corroboration I've found through the years was a 1900 Census entry for a John C Miller (with a Nancy Hayes as a m-i-l) in Kaufman County, TX. The wife's name was Sydney C. Miller though. (C for Catherine?) They have a daughter, Ruby, the right age to be my great grandmother.
Yesterday I found J Cole Miller and Kate Miller entries in Locust Grove Cemetery in Hiram, Kaufman County. This brings up the other problem. The cemetery reference shows that he died Dec. 3, 1915. Other references I've found show that Ma, my ggrandmother, may have been adopted between 1900 & 1910 by the Dewees family. Not much reason for adoption if her father was alive.
I really need to get to Kaufman county and check the headstones.
Yesterday I found J Cole Miller and Kate Miller entries in Locust Grove Cemetery in Hiram, Kaufman County. This brings up the other problem. The cemetery reference shows that he died Dec. 3, 1915. Other references I've found show that Ma, my ggrandmother, may have been adopted between 1900 & 1910 by the Dewees family. Not much reason for adoption if her father was alive.
I really need to get to Kaufman county and check the headstones.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Working Out
I started working out, again, this week. I'm using Tony Horton's 10-Minute Trainer system. Just 2 days in and I'm really feeling it. Tuesday, I did one of the lower-body routines and my quads are ridiculously stiff now. Monday's workout was full body and my back is killing me from the "push-ups".
I weighed myself this morning and I weigh 182 lbs. That's not too bad for just having returned from a cruise, since that's about what I think I weighed before. I'll be using the blog to keep up with my weight loss and how I feel.
Monday, September 14, 2009 – Total Body 1
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 – Lower Body
I weighed myself this morning and I weigh 182 lbs. That's not too bad for just having returned from a cruise, since that's about what I think I weighed before. I'll be using the blog to keep up with my weight loss and how I feel.
Monday, September 14, 2009 – Total Body 1
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 – Lower Body
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Cruise (Carnival Conquest)
We just got back Sunday from a cruise to the western Caribbean (Jamaica, Grand Cayman, & Cozumel). We only did one excursion; climbing Dunn's River Falls & swimming with the dolphins at Dolphin's Cove, both near Ocho Rios in Jamaica. Nancy banged up her shin pretty bad on the falls, but the swimming with the dolphins was a blast. The bus ride to get to Ocho Rios from Montego Bay took a while, but wasn't too bad. We had a nice time on the ship; our wait staff and Steward were excellent.
This year, since the trip was for our 15th anniversary, I sang I Swear to Nancy just like at our wedding, just karaoke this time. Since we were hanging out so much in the Degas lounge listening to karaoke this trip, I auditioned to be Frank Sinatra in the closing show for the last night of the cruise. I won, but only because no one else entered; I butchered the song I chose, I've Got You Under My Skin. The Legends show was a blast though; everyone sang OK (a few missed lyrics), but Aretha Franklin was fantastic.
This year, since the trip was for our 15th anniversary, I sang I Swear to Nancy just like at our wedding, just karaoke this time. Since we were hanging out so much in the Degas lounge listening to karaoke this trip, I auditioned to be Frank Sinatra in the closing show for the last night of the cruise. I won, but only because no one else entered; I butchered the song I chose, I've Got You Under My Skin. The Legends show was a blast though; everyone sang OK (a few missed lyrics), but Aretha Franklin was fantastic.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
My roads too!!
This past weekend I spent 20 minutes waiting at an intersection for a group of bicycle riders to pass by. I know that they have the right to use the road, but even if they are riding together for a cause, they need to be forced to obey the laws. Quit having police officers direct traffic so that the riders can ride straight through stop signs and traffic signals. I pay as much in taxes to use these roads as any of the riders so they shouldn't be given any priority.
With all candor, I feel the same way with parades and other events like road-runs (marathons, 10Ks...). When I do something, I don't expect it to inconvenience others and I would like the same consideration from them.
With all candor, I feel the same way with parades and other events like road-runs (marathons, 10Ks...). When I do something, I don't expect it to inconvenience others and I would like the same consideration from them.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
McAfee
Today we were flooded with McAfee issues at work. Somehow, this week the package in the system for the workstation agent, 3.6.608, got changed inside the server console to 4.0.608. The 4.0 package was available in Evaluation, but should not have changed the existing version. This caused multiple sub-issues (removing vscan from workstations, partially disabling the ePO on workstations...) This looks to have started Tuesday evening.
Then, today, the McAfee product that runs on our Exchange servers started quarantining all attachments. This wasn't as hard to resolve, since it seems to have been the result of an ExtraDAT we had to install this morning for another issue.
Then, today, the McAfee product that runs on our Exchange servers started quarantining all attachments. This wasn't as hard to resolve, since it seems to have been the result of an ExtraDAT we had to install this morning for another issue.
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