Archive for February, 2009

Marketing Campaigns

In: Spam

26 Feb 2009

Two days ago, I received a call wanting to take 40 seconds of my time to tell me about a great movie and that this was not a sales call.
Several things pissed me off about this one.

If you are taking the time to focus marketing at me, you’re selling to me. Just cut [...]

Safari 4 Beta – First Impressions

In: Apple

24 Feb 2009

I’ve been messing around with the new Safari 4 Beta release and so far I’m pretty pleased with the browser. There is a bit getting use to some of the new features but overall, I think that they have made some changes for the better.
Here is a run down of the big features:
Top [...]

7 things you didn’t know you could do with OpenOffice 3

In: DevDog| Rants

24 Feb 2009

Recently, PC Mag ran an article titled OpenOffice.org: 7 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do. I’ve always been a big fan of Open Office and have found it a nice alternative to shelling out the major bucks for the Office suite from Microsoft.
Here’s the run down of the list.

Edit two or more parts [...]

Ugly Code

In: DevDog| Dumb People| Rants

14 Feb 2009

With my recent project, I had to do some research for the bits that make up the msRTCSIP-OptionFlags field in Active Directory for OCS users. There were certain operations that are not 100% supported by HMC so often times you have to fill in the gaps. The definition of this field is [...]

First!

In: In the news| Micro$oft

10 Feb 2009

There are very few times that a company gets to claim that they are first to do something. But today, my project is launching and LightEdge Solutions gets to claim that we are the first service provider to provide this integration. Today we are announcing that we are rolling out our [...]

Outpost

In: iPhone App Reviews

9 Feb 2009

I’m an avid follower of the 37signals blogs and they happened to be giving out some promo codes for a new iPhone app called Outpost. All I had to do was send a tweet to the develoers and I just happened to be one of the lucky ones to secure one of these [...]

Fairness Doctrine

In: Politics| Rants

8 Feb 2009

People like this really scare me:
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) told nationally syndicated talk host Bill Press this morning that the recent flips of liberal Talk stations in several markets were a “disservice to the public.”
Stabenow said that, in the day of the Fairness Doctrine, “you had to have balance,” and continued, “I think something that [...]


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