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Hiatus 2008
Not a software package, but a state of "being", for me actually. I apologize for the dearth of postings, here and on my personal blog, but I've been logistically squashed lately. I leave the house at 5:30 AM to get a parking spot and time...
Blog Splitting
In an effort to avoid posting irrelevant material here, which I'm prone to doing (remember, my nickname is skatterbrainz), I have revived my old blogger blog. Say that ten times as fast as you can. Blogger blog. The link is http://skatterbrainz.blogspot...
Links of the Week
Here's a few links that might be useful to someone... Update for SCCM 2007 for WSUS offline scan catalogs WS08 Security Confg Manager 2007 Scott Lowe on MAP toolkit from TechEd Getting PowerShell on WS08 Core Update for SMS 2003 and R2 for Vista/WS08...
Posted: Jun 18 2008, 05:12 PM by David M. Stein | with no comments
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Time Crunching, Commuting, Great Blogs
You may (or may not) have noticed my posts are becoming farther apart. That's mainly due to starting a new job and commuting much farther each day. I now drive 62 miles per day round-trip, but that's not a total picture of the time aspects. For...
Posted: Jun 13 2008, 07:08 AM by David M. Stein | with no comments
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Dave's Braindump, Part 3: Common Sense
I originally thought I would dump specific product or technology focused "tips" in this exciting (heh heh) series of braindumps. Then I thought about what I'd learned as a consultant. All the trips in and out of the bowels of small, medium...
What I did on my time "off"
Since being sidelined from work in early April, I... Got an official business license Started my own business ( www.harmonixx.com ) Built two customer web sites (working on three and four already also) Had my cell phone (all of them, family plan) shut...
Posted: Jun 03 2008, 08:20 PM by David M. Stein | with 3 comment(s)
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Good, Fast or Cheap
I have about five minutes left to say something for now. I probably won't be posting for quite a few days. I was just thinking of the familiar question: "Do you want it Good, Fast or Cheap? Pick any two" In IT circles, that saying is 100...
Posted: May 29 2008, 09:52 AM by David M. Stein | with no comments
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Another Thought for the Road
I promised I would return and I have. Due to circumstances resulting from my being laid off, and my next job (and paycheck) still yet to begin, I've been somewhat restricted on cell phone and Internet access. I'll leave that to your imagination...
Sabbatical Time
Just so it's not a mystery-by-silence, I wanted to post a comment that I won't be posting on my blog for a little while. I'll explain when I return, which I will, just not sure exactly when yet. I'm fine and my family is fine, but I have...
Posted: May 26 2008, 03:30 PM by David M. Stein | with no comments
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Where Marketing Goes Wrong: Coders Pretending to be Designers
Yes. I just finished up a phone conversation revolving around a potential project to rebuild an extranet web site for a customer. The current site is written in PHP running on Apache, which is running on a Windows box. Klunky. But whatever. The discussion...
Off-Topic: Catching Up on Things
So, some of you e-mailed me during the brief period that this blog was on lock-down, to ask what I was up to. I'll try to break it down and itemize just how things were going during that period: I got the final word that my job was being cut due to...
Posted: Apr 28 2008, 09:54 AM by David M. Stein | with 1 comment(s)
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Bon Voyage Laptop
The laptop I've had since I began working for my soon-to-be-previous employer is about to soon-be-going-back to them as they and I part ways. The laptop was a POS actually, but it was great for recording my blogcasts for the Level 5 Guides. Not that...
Hibernation
No, I didn't get wacked by the mob or silenced by Al Qeada or anything. I've just been buried in work. Oh boy. I can't even attempt to describe the past five days. It's been nuts. So, I'll start off with how today went: horrible. I woke up with a nasty...