Category Archive: General

Random Thoughts

Jun 14

The Falliability of Hard Drives and the Recovery of Data

The claim “My hard drive failed” is the modern day equivalent of saying “The dog ate my homework”.

Jun 14

A Technologist’s Peer-Reviewed, In-Depth, Simplified Analysis of the IRS Claim of Lois Lerner’s Email Being Deleted

The IRS claimed today that they have “irretrievably lost” two years’ worth of Lois Lerner’s email. This is a fairly outlandish and quite convenient event. And it’s a lie.

Jul 12

C# .Net Basics: Classes

Classes A class is a user defined object or type construct that allows you to group together fields, properties and methods into a custom type that behaves in a consistent way.  A class is a reference type; when an instance of a class is instantiated, an object reference is returned to the calling function, not …

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Apr 29

News & Views 29 Apr 10

This might be a regular feature, or it might just be hit and miss.  What it will be though is mostly quick quips on news items.  Some will be political, some tech, some other junk.  It’ll mostly just be stuff I found interesting, funny, stupid or worth noting. Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz received a …

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Apr 29

What I’m up to lately.. where things are for now

Serenity is almost to her second anniversary of having Leukemia.  The doctors are currently telling us that she'll be 'cured' and be able to go off treatment in July.  Being cured means that she has successfully gone through the treatment protocols and if she doesn't relapse for 5 years she'll be considered medically cured.  Relapse …

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Apr 29

Resurrection

So I haven't written for almost a year. Before that, it was really sporadic. Before that I often wrote more than once a day. So what happened? That's what I've been wondering tonight. Here are a couple thoughts. My life and my objectives completely changed after Serenity was diagnosed with Leukemia.  Blogging anything that wasn't …

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Jun 26

On Calendars, Contacts, Email and Anti-Microsoft People

Seriously?  You still read my blog?  Shocking.  I’m just writing cause I want to vent. This morning I went to Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast which is a breakfast meeting of a great group of techies.  I haven’t been in a while -I haven’t done much of anything public lately, except blogging on Utah Preppers, and …

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Jan 28

Catching Up, Again.

I’ve been blogging like crazy over on Utah Preppers and completely ignoring this one.  My passions and interests have shifted in the last year, quite a bit.  I’m not sure what’s coming down the road and I hope and pray that it’s not as bad as my imagination thinks it might be.  But, I’m pretty …

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