Don't Back Down

June 2005

  • Seattle on my Mind

    Yesterday's flight to Seattle was relatively uneventful. While we took a United-branded flight, it was actually a USAirways gate and plane, staffed by USAirways employees. Still, other than departing about an hour-and-half late, the flight was okay. What really got me was that they sold first-class upgrades for…

  • Conditional Comments in IE

    Very rarely do I think that IE is a good browser. But I have to give them a tip of the hat for their conditional comments. This feature saved my butt, by allowing a construct something like this one: <!–[if IE]> <p>Welcome to Internet Explorer.</p> <![endif]–> Any browser…

  • Movable Type on GoDaddy

    Today I was working with a client and having a bear of a time getting their Movable Type 3.17 install working on their GoDaddy hosting account. It turns out that the way the script name was accessed had changed – and since GoDaddy runs under sbox, it was…

  • Suitably Spooky

    Last night we went to see The (New) Amityville Horror. While my expectations weren't especially high (in fact, they were pretty low), I was impressed. Well, perhaps not impressed. But I wasn't entirely disappointed. The mood of the movie was very dark, but also very believable – and…

  • OfficeScan Console Timeout

    I ran into another issue where I was trying to use the management console for the Trend Micro OfficeScan software. But as soon as I logged in, it told me that I had timed out and made me log in again. That's just insane – even the fast-talking…

  • Fixing Windows Time Issues

    I recently ran across a spate of the dreaded errors in the event log saying that my time synchronization wasn't happening. What a nuisance. Luckily, I found my way to a page that tells you how to fix time synchronization issues. It's geared towards Small Business Server, but…

  • Exchange 2003 and RPC over HTTP

    So I'm in the process of moving some mailboxes from an SBS 2003 server to Exchange 2003 on a Windows 2003 Server installation (need more than the 75 licenses that SBS offers). All went really well, except I couldn't get RPC over HTTP to work on the new…

  • Forget About History

    It seems that Alan Greenspan thinks that the situation where short-term yields are higher than long-term yields is simply an anomaly. This, despite the fact that this has happened before, and when it has, it has indicated what we shall call an "economic slowdown". Naturally, we all want…

  • Area Code Shenanigans

    I find it interesting in our world that so many people still don't include the area code on their signage. I'm driving through a strange town and see a number – 555-1212. How am I supposed to know the area code in order to dial them, either then…