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Last night our hosts took us out to dinner at a Peking Duck restraunt here in Beijing where we had some amazing Chinese fare, including Peking duck. I sampled duck tongue (yuk), duck liver pâté (yum), an amazing orange peel cod dish, and more. The first picture is the disgusting duck tongue. Makes me ill just looking at the picture! 🙂 I will pretty much try anything. Once. And there are not many foods I …Continue reading →

Last night at about 10pm local time I arrived in Beijing China. We flew from Seattle to Narita/Tokyo and then to Beijing. This morning I woke up at about 6am, walked 3 mintues out the front door of my hotel (the Kerry Centre) and got a triple-grande-latte from Starbucks. Tastes just like home! I’ll be in Asia for about 10 days. We start here in Beijing, then go to Shanghai, and then a few days …Continue reading →

First, it should be obvious that I consider myself a geek. I think I’m a pretty big geek. My sister Laurie is constantly calling me a geek; the funny thing is she thinks she’s insulting me! But I don’t hold a candle to Phillip Torrone who runs www.flashenabled.com. Wow. This is now one of my favorite sites for blowing time on. Regarding the term “Geek”, last week there was a thread on channel9 about arrogance. …Continue reading →

I’m still an absolute n00b when it comes to regex. Even after reading Mastering Regular Expressions. But man, is it powerful. Tonight my wife asked me to help her create name badge labels for an org she’s in. All she had was an email that had a list of names like this: DI- PAID IN FULLLynn Melton 2Judy Pake 3EO-PAID IN FULLPeggy Ponto 9ES – PAID IN FULLJanice Norman 2Janice Benson 3… Where the first …Continue reading →

As I mentioned before I use DFS on my home network to help manage my storage resources. Almost all of my machines at home are domain joined. You get a lot of management benefits from doing this. You can make Windows Software Update Services (SUS) automatically apply patches to all machines, you can apply Group Policy across machines (e.g. to enforce password complexity requirements, re-directed My Documents, etc…) However, in one case I have choosen …Continue reading →

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html Strong Bad is my hero.

Good ‘ole Don Box has written a very clear description of HTTP.SYS and it’s relationship to IIS and Indigo. I have to admit that even I was confused (and I worked on HTTP.SYS way back when it was called “Duct Tape”)!

A few weeks back Scott posted about MaxiVista. I had just multi-mon at work with 2 DELL 20” LCDs using DVI and was loving it. I also had a 19” LCD on my desk I used for my server machines via a KVM switch. I thought it would be cool to somehow use the 3rd monitor in my multi-mon setup, but adding another video card to my main machine was questionable. MaxiVista to the rescue! …Continue reading →